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gers deer were much more scattered than 
last year, but we had lots of sport. We 
stayed up the entire season and killed 11 
deer—7 bucks, 3 buck fawns, and one doe. 
The heaviest buck weighed 245 poundg 
and the lightest 148. 
Hunters of this section are awaiting with 
interest the enactment of uniform fish and 
game laws for Wisconsin, Michigan, 
Minnesota and _ Illinois. We want the 
open season for deer from Nov. I0 t: 30, 
for the reason that 4-5ths of the deer killed 
then would be bucks. 
Near De Pere we have good sport hunt- 
ing rabbits, squirrels and grouse. Ducks 
are plentiful in season in the rice along the 
shores of Fox river and Green bay. Along 
the Fox are some of the most delightful 
camping places in the state. 
L. $. Wilcox, De Pere, Wis. 

A SUCCESSFUL HUNT NEAR NEW YORK. 
In 1896 I visited Mr. J. E. Kaiser, at 
North Wilton, Conn. I took with me a 
one year old pointer pup, who had never 
heard a gun fired. Arrived at the farm I 
took a stroll back of the barn with my pup 
and Mr. Kaiser’s Gordon setter. We had 
just struck the woods when a woodcock 
got vp, flusked by the wild antics of my 
pup. I killed him and the pup stood 
still, frightened by the report of the gun. 
We went on about 100 yards and the Gor- 
don pointed; but my pup ran wild and 
flushed the birds. I killed a bird to the 
right while Mr. Kaiser killed to the left. 
On ‘our way home we killed 2 gray squir- 
rels. 
The following day was cold and windy. 
yet we killed 5 rabbits, 4 woodcock, 3 
quails and a squirrel. We flushed several 
grouse, but all rose out of range. That 
night I tied my dog in the barn. He got 
loose and went on a hunting expedition of 
his own. After killing 4 ducks and a num- 
ber of chickens he stopped, probably for 
fear RECREATION would call him a game 
hog. Next day he was naturally a little 
timid but made a fine point on a wood- 
cock which I flushed and killed. That day 
we shot 4 grouse, 7 quails, 5 rabbits, and 
2 squirrels. 
The next day it rained hard and we did 
not hunt. When the week ended we had 
16 rabbits, 14 quails, 8 grouse, 8 wood- 
cock and 6 squirrels. As all the game was 
given me I had quite a load to bring home. 
F, J. Rauh, New York City. 

GAME NOTES. 
In March Recreation Mr. Harris pro- 
tests against the bounty on crows. A year 
ago I should have crossed swords with Mr. 
H. for defending so unmitigated a rascal. 
Last season I had 60 acres of potatoes. 
RECREATION. 
~The bugs were bad—very bad. They 
seemed to come from everywhere and all 
the time. After using $30 worth of Paris 
green and $115 worth of work, the plants 
began to blossom and we had to stop, -as 
the mineral is fatal to the fertility of the 
blossoms. I was ugly—savage. The bugs 
soon got a new Start and were cutting the 
young shoots as only the striped pests can 
do. One day I saw a flock of crows light 
between the rows and become very intent 
at something. Creeping up quietly I 
watched one huge black rascal and found 
he was eating potato bugs as fast as he 
could catch them. 
The next day the flock was increased to 
2 or 3 hundred, and the bug population 
began to decrease very rapidly. In a week 
it was practically disposed of and the crows 
scattered. 
The barn yard duck was the only bird 
that I had ever known to eat potato bugs 
until this time, although there is a small 
brown bird about the size of the cat bird. 
I think it is one of the finch family—that 
destroys their larvae. The place for the 
bounty is on the scalp of the man that kills 
crows. 
Meyer Jordan, Suttons Bay, Mich. 

I note what A. H. Amsden says of 
game catching. He does not put the case 
strcngly enough. 
For every elk caught and brought to a 
market 5 are left dead on the range. Two 
or more men start on snow shoes after elk 
when the snow is 2 to 4 feet deep. Elk 
when started run either for the top of the 
mountains or for the river. If they start 
for the mountains they are turned back 
and as many of them caught as the catch- 
ers can overtake. The rest are chased 
into the river where they are run up and 
down until they take to the snow again. 
When they try the snow they are driven © 
back to the river again and there they will 
stay until 99 out of too chill to death. I 
once counted 72 dead cow elk in the Madi- 
son river. Fifteenthousandelk used to pass 
Henry’s lake, Idaho, every fall going to 
their winter range. In ’85, the game catch- 
ets located there. The first fall they 
killed 65 elk in sight of the lake, and that 
winter they caught all they could find. The 
next spring there were dead elk all over 
the mountains. From that time to this 
elk have given the lake a wide berth. The 
game catchers are exterminating the big 
game of the West. Animals that they 
cannot sell alive to Eastern game pre- 
serves they kill for the Butte market. 
M. P. Dunham, Woodworth, Mont. 

I have just returned, with a friend, from 
the Saranac lake section. We traveled on 
small horses and found it a good mode of 


