
FROM THE GAME FIELDS. 
rivals. Hayes suggested to Smith that 
they go and get him.  Shouldering 
their .50 caliber Springfield rifles, and 
with belts filled with cartridges they 
started and I accompanied them without 
invitation, being then a small boy. We 
went up the track until we got on a line 
where the old bull would cross on his 
way to the river and there we took posi- 
tion in the ditch and kept well under cov- 
er. When the buffalo was within 100 yards 
Hayes opened fire and was quickly follow- 
ed by his partner. The bull stopped, 
raised his head and seemed at a loss to 
understand what it all meant. I watched 
him intently expecting at each shot he 
would drop. He stood motionless, look- 
ing at the smoke which was now becoming 
pretty thick. When about a dozen shots 
had been fired he started and ran in a 
circle for a few minutes, switching his lit- 
tle whisk-broom of a tail violently. Pres- 
ently he stopped and the _fusilade 
continued until the men had_ used 
-all their ammunition. A sergeant, who 
had been a spectator, and was disgusted by 
the exhibition, secured a horse and after a 
brief chase killed the bull. As we re- 
traced our steps Hayes said something 
about the sights of his gun being too 
coarse, and Smith thought his gun barrel 
was too bright. But a similar experience 
on my own part a few years later makes 
me think it was a case of buck fever, pure 
and simple. 
Jw: Costin, Laramie; Wyo: 

THE WOLF PEST. 
Inclosed you will find clipping taken 
from Omaha Daily Stockman which will 
give you an idea as to how numerous and 
destructive the gray wolves are in parts 
of Wyoming—the most mountainous dis- 
trict. 
Natrona County.—Mr. Peter Hansen passed here 
a few days ago and informed me that 50 gray wolves 
gotinto his herd of sheep and devoured 30 head be- 
fore the herder could run them off, which he did at the 
peril of his life. These brutes are getting so bold and 
runin such large bands that the oldest settlers are 
alarmed for their own safety after nightfall. It is no 
uncommon thing to see a band of from 5 to 50 roaming 
over the country in broad daylight. The bounty is only 
$4 a head for grown wolves and nothing for pups. 
Consequently trappers and hunters will make no effort 
to trap them for such a small reward. The prevailing 
opinion is that unless the coming legislature enacts 
some law to eradicate gray wolves from the range, 
stockmen will either have to sell out and quit the in- 
dustry, or turn their stock oyer to the wolves. 
They are quite plentiful here, but do not 
destroy more than 5 per cent of stock. We 
keep them down by watching and hunting 
them very closely during April and May, 
their breeding season, here. We nearly 
always get their pups and quite frequently 
the old ones. 
An experienced man can nearly always 
locate their dens and dig out the pups. 
-successfully transplanted to Cuba. 
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The old one will sometimes stand and 
bark while we are at the den and a good 
shot can then down her. At other times 
our riders come on a gray wolf; then 
the chase begins. We consider a wolf 
worth more than a horse, and the ranch- 
men quite frequently run down and kill 
a wolf inside of 3 or 6 miles. They are 
more easily run down soon after they have 
killed a cow and are full. 
F. L. Putney, Hutchinson, Neb. 

THE BEST BIRD FOR CUBA. 
I would like to learn through REcRE- 
ATION, whether squirrels and rabbits could, 
in a wild state, live and thrive in a tropic- 
al climate like Cuba? Would their flesh 
be fit to eat? Would the Mongolian pheas- 
ant and the ruffed grouse thrive here? 
We have wild peacocks and guinea fowls 
(not native birds) and I see no reason why 
pheasants and grouse could not live here 
also. 
O. A. Fischer, Trinidad, Cuba. 
ANSWER. 
Rabbits and squirrels introduced from 
India, Ceylon, or the Malay Peninsula 
probably would thrive in Cuba, as they do 
in those countries. It is also probable that 
the gray squirrel and swamp hare, or cot- 
ton-tail rabbit, of our Gulf states could be 
The 
flesh of both should be nearly as good as 
it is in Alabama,—which is not saying 
much. So far as I know, Americans are 
the only white people who eat squirrels. 
The Mongolian pheasant and ruffed 
grouse are so distinctly Northern in their 
food habits and mode of life, I greatly 
doubt the possibility cf successfully intro- 
ducing them into Cuba. A much better 
bird to introduce would be the jungle cock 
of India and Ceylon (Gallus bankiva), a 
right jolly little bird,—pretty as a pic: 
ture, savory on the plate, and as sociable 
as the safety of his neck will permit. His 
saucy crowing in the morning, when he 
makes the jungle ring with his absurd, 
bantam-like ‘“‘cuck-cuck-cuck-koo-ah!” is 
alone worth the cost of his keep. In my 
opinion he is just the bird for Cuba and 
Porto Rico. ge Woe Earle 

WISCONSIN GAME. 
A party consisting of “Dad” Clark, Leon 
Lalher, Mneut..-C2 J. “iripp, C.. WacAn- 
nas, E. C. Tilly, M. Burnett, M. Franck- 
en, C. E. Wright, and I were recently deer 
hunting in Marinette county, Wis. We 
lived comfortably in a deserted logging 
camp. The first few days we spent look- 
ing over the country and in shooting 
grouse which were plentiful. 
Owing to the use of dynamite by log- 


