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RECREATION. 



Here is a list of the principal manufactures of 



Spratts Patent Limited 



Dog Cakes 

 Charcoal Dog Cakes 

 Greyhound Cakes 

 Plain Bound Cakes 

 Oatmeal Cakes 

 Puppy Cakes 



Pet Dog Cakes 

 Cod Liver Oil Cakes 

 Orphan Puppy Food 

 Pepsinated Puppy Mea 

 Plain Puppy Meal 

 Bone Meal for Puppies 



Of Remedies, Etc., the following: 



Dog Soap, (white) 



Antiseptic Soap 

 (black) 



Tonic Tablets 



Mange Cure 



Eczema Cure 



Purgative Tablets 



Cough Tablets 



Vermifuge 



Puppy Vermifuge 



Coding Tablets 



Locurium 



Liniment for Sprains, 

 Etc. 



Hair Stimulant 

 Jaundice Tablets 

 Cure for Canker 

 Fit Cure 



Distemper Tablets 

 Anti-Rickets Tablets 

 Eye Lotion Tablets 

 Diarrhoea Cure 



Send for Catalogue of Dog and Poultry Foods 

 and Supplies of all kinds to Spratts Patent Limited, 

 245 East 56th Street, N. Y. (San Francisco Branch, 

 1385 Valencia Street.) 



I see T. S. Ford, of Des Moines, goes 

 wild on spring shooting, in August Rec- 

 reation. I lived in Iowa 30 years. 

 Game was everywhere. I have seen a 

 wagon-box nearly full of chickens brought 

 in from a day's hunt by 2 or 3 men. Ducks 

 were numberless. The time for killing 

 was any time when you could find game. 

 We all killed all we could, and no won- 

 der birds became scarce. I went hunting 

 here in the sp 'ng, 12 years ago. I put 

 out some old wooden decoys, and the 

 blackheads just fell over one another to 

 get to them. We picked up 38 ducks, 

 and poor, scrawny things we found them; 

 not a bird weighed one-half what it should. 

 I quit right there and have done no spring 

 shooting since. I talked to all the boys, 

 and I want to tell you it doesn't take a 

 law to keep the local hunters here from 

 killing ducks in the spring. We have a 

 lake i J /i miles from town. It was esti- 

 mated there were 10,000 ducks on it at a 

 time this spring, and I don't believe there 

 was a gun fired at them. If Iowa hunters 

 will let their ducks alone in the spring 

 the birds will stay and hatch, and there 

 will be good shooting up to October 1st. 

 Ford says 6 killed in the fall is as bad as 

 6 killed in the spring. Of course in either 

 case the ducks are dead; but if they were 

 made for the use of man all should have 

 a fair chance at them. A law that says 

 ftom September 1st to January 1st would 

 give each man a chance. 



O. J. Morrison, Pelican Rapids, Minn, 



THE SALE OF QUAILS FORBID- 

 DEN IN SHELBY CO., TENN. 



Knowing you are opposed to the sale 

 of game everywhere. I send you the fol- 

 lowing from our local paper, the Memphis 

 Commercial Appeal: 



Two bird laws with particular reference to Shelby 

 county were passed by the recent legislatuie, and they 

 are to some extent apparently in conflict. The first 

 law limits quail shooting to the period between No- 

 vember 1 and February 1 of each and every year The 

 second positively declares that no more quails shall be 

 killed in Shelby county until November 15, ioco. 



In the first act the men who deal in this particular 

 kind of bird have some interest. The law declares 

 that it shall be a misdemeanor for any person to sell 

 quails in this county between November 1 and Febru- 

 ary 1 of each and every year, and this is the only 

 period during which men are allowed under the law 

 to hunt quails in the county. This will close down the 

 dealing in this particular bird so far as the Memphis 

 market is concerned. 



The second act is a short one and is specific enough 

 in its provisions. The first section is as follows : 



" That hereafter, until the 15th of November, 1900, 

 it shall be a misdemeanor for any person or persons 

 to kill or trap any quail or quails in Shelby county, of 

 this State." 



The penalty is a fine of not less than $10 nor more 

 than $50, and imprisonment in the county jail for a 

 term of not less than 3 months nor more than 6 

 months. The effect of this law is to silence the guns, 

 so far as quail shooting is concerned, in Shelby county 

 until after November 15. 1900. This will be a year 

 from the coming November and will give the quails 

 two brooding seasons, during which time they can fill 

 up the gaps in their decimated ranks. This last law 

 is of short duration. It will pass out of existence 

 after November 15, 1000, and the first law passed will 

 become operative with reference to the bird shooting 

 season. By passing the second act, providing that 

 there should be no more quail shooting in bhelby 

 county until November 15, 1900, the legislature sim- 



Ely modified the first act and in finding out what the 

 ird law is, the hunter will have to take the two acts 

 together. This would probably be the construction of 

 the courts. 



Ten other laws were passed by the recent Legisla- 

 ture on the same subject, but applying to different 

 sections of the Stfte. The smaller counties are 

 grouped, sometimes in Congressional districts, some- 

 times in floterial districts ; Dut the law throughout 

 the State is about uniform. 



These laws are along the right lines, 

 especially in regard to the sale of game. 

 Memphis is one of the greatest game mar- 

 kets in the South, being in easy reach of 

 Mississippi and Arkansas, the best quail 

 States in the Union. This law will be 

 beneficial to sportsmen, as the market 

 hunters will not hunt if they cannot sell. 

 A. B. Wingfield, Memphis, Tenn. 



For Sale : 12 gauge, double barrel ham- 

 mer breechloading gun, made by E. M. Reilly, 

 London ; plain grip, lever under guard, cost 

 S150. Also by same maker, one heavy barrel 

 hammer breechloading gun ; lever under 

 guard, pistol grip with cheek piece. One pair 

 10 gauge shot barrels for same. One extra 

 pair heavy 12 gauge barrels for same, rifled, 

 for shooting ball cartridges. Both guns in 

 heavy sole leather trunk, made to fit same. 

 Cost of entire outfit, $400. Will sell separately 

 or entire outfit for best cash offer. 

 Cornwall & Jespersen, 



3 if) Broadway, New York. 



