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season when these vandals are allowed to 

 slaughter deer by hundreds while the 

 fawns are yet so young that they also will 

 perish? 



M. W. Miner, Banner, Idaho. 



PASSENGER PIGEONS IN MANITOBA. 



I heartily commend your crusade against 

 game hogs and pot hunters. I much prefer 

 good flight shooting to 10 or 15 yard pot 

 shooting. 



The wild pigeon is returning to Mani- 

 toba. It almost entirely disappeared some 

 years ago, but this year when I was in 

 Southern Manitoba during my vacation I 

 saw a few. I shot an old female pigeon 

 with one egg almost ready to be laid. In 

 fact, the shell was quite hard, and I think 

 the egg would have been laid in an hour, 

 as it was almost protruding. On opening 

 the bird I found another egg, about as big 

 as a pea. Would those have been laid in 

 Manitoba? I suppose the big one would, 

 but as I shot the bird in the middle of Au- 

 gust the eggs could not have hatched. 

 Philip C. Locke, St. John's College, 



Winnipeg, Man. 



You should not have killed that bird. 

 No one should kill a passenger pigeon for 

 the next 10 years. These few stragglers 

 that are returning should be carefully and 

 sacredly protected and given every oppor- 

 tunity to increase. — Editor. 



GAME DECREASING. 



Having a few idle days and wanting 

 something to read I borrowed some cop- 

 ies of what is called one of the leading 

 sportsmen's papers of the day. I found some 

 good things in it, but the page after page 

 of shameful boasts by men who should 

 know better made me heartsick. These 

 men are game hogs, taking their own 

 words for it. It appears by this paper 

 that the only game hogs are market hunt- 

 ers and poor people in regions where 

 the game abounds. Such, however, is not 

 the case; some of the worst hogs we have 

 are men who have money to burn. I do 

 not wonder game and fish are scarce in 

 places where they once were plentiful. 

 Will the time ever come when men will 

 govern their swinish instincts? Brother 

 sportsmen, I beg you to spare the game; 

 be merciful, stop when ycu have enough 

 for your own use. If you do not there 

 soon will be neither game to shoot nor 

 fish to catch. 



Ed. Blossom, Otsego, Mich. 



other that had the correct tone. The deal- 

 ers generally send out anything that will 

 make a noise, paying no attention to tone. 

 1 will be under many obligations if you 

 will recommend some responsible house 

 who will send me what I want. 



You are O. K. in going for the hogs. 

 Have a few here. One or 2 of our wealth- 

 iest citizens hunt turkeys out of season. 

 Wish we could get up a branch of the 

 L. A. S. here. I have done all I could to 

 interest our local sports in your work, yet 

 only a few of them take any interest in 

 game protection. 



H. E. Scott, Columbia, S. C. 



ANSWER. 



I do not know who makes duck calls. 

 Some years ago, a man somewhere in Il- 

 linois made and advertised them, but I 

 have forgotten his name and address, and 

 as I do not see his ad. nowadays, I assume 

 he has gone out of business. If he were 

 still making duck calls, he would certainly 

 advertise them in Recreation. — Editor. 



r GAME NOTES. 



L. A. Stafford, secretary of the Rapides 

 Fair and Racing Association, of Rapides, 

 La., sends out a circular announcing a 

 shooting tournment, in which he says: 



"The Association desires this shoot to be 

 one that will be long remembered in sport- 

 ing circles, and will endeavor to furnish 

 quail for the live bird events and hope to 

 secure a sufficient number of quail for a 

 very large crowd; in case of failure to get 

 sufficient quail will use live pigeons." 



Here is another case of cruel and in- 

 human slaughter that the humane societies 

 should prohibit. It is a great pity that 

 men can still be found who would plan 

 such fiendish work as this, but since they 

 do exist, the local authorities should look 

 after them. I trust a law may be found on 

 the statute books of Louisiana that will 

 enable some good man to send these men 

 to jail for 30 days each, if they attempt to 

 carry out their dastardly plan. 



WHO MAKES A DUCK CALL? 

 Where can I get a good duck call? Sev- 

 eral years ago I managed to get a good 

 one, but after losing it failed to find an- 



Our quail hunting is decidedly different 

 from the sport as practiced in the North. 

 There the faithful dog plays the important 

 role; here we have called upon the horse 

 to help us out. That is, our shooting is 

 done from horseback. The varieties of 

 quail belonging here can seldom be in- 

 duced to flush, but how they can run! 



It takes a lively sprinter to overtake 

 them if once they have the start of you, s® 

 we gallop after them on the horse and thus 

 have some show to get a shot. 



It is fine fun, if you and your horse are 

 trained for this kind of action, 



