FROM THE GAME FIELDS. 



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Senator Teller, who has been an ardent 

 advocate of this enterprise, are 186, at 

 Cape Prince of Wales 216, at Golovin bay 

 395, at Point Barrow 381, and at Circle 

 City 144. This does not include 144 rein- 

 deer which were imported from Lapland 

 by the War Department for the purpose 

 of conveying food to the gold miners in 

 the Klondike. It will be remembered that 

 this enterprise was never carried out. All 

 of the 144 males and 350 of the Siberian 

 reindeer were driven to Point Barrow to 

 feed the crews of the whaling ships which 

 had been caught in the ice. It was found, 

 however, that the whalers had all the food 

 they needed, and the animals were not 

 eaten, as had been intended. 



About 20 Lapps, native deermen of Lap- 

 land, were brought over to take care of 

 the reindeer in Alaska. These have 

 taught the Alaskan Indians how to take 

 care of the deer, regular schools having 

 been established for that purpose. Ap- 

 prentices graduating from the schools re- 

 ceive a certain number of deer, represent- 

 ing in each case the nucleus of a herd. 

 Several such herds have been established 

 by Indians, who make a good living from 

 them. There is an abundance of moss in 

 Alaska, which is the natural food of the 

 reindeer, so they are likely to thrive and 

 become abundant there. 



be here as it is in England, where the poor 

 man has no chance for sport. 



M. J. Seeburg, Washington, D. C. 



GAME PRESERVES AND GAME PRESERVATION. 



Permit a friend of Recreation and an 

 old hunter, with 30 years' experience in 

 the old country and as many in this, to 

 give some pointers on game preservation. 

 Your fight against the game hog is all 

 right, but why not teach hunters not to 

 shoot does and fawns? How can game 

 multiply if the females are killed? Of the 

 5,000 deer shot in the Adirondacks last 

 year at least 3,000 were females. In the 

 old country the hunter who kills a doe is 

 disgraced; he is heavily fined, and is never 

 more invited to any shooting party. 



Again, I fear you do not always roast 

 the right person. The man who has but 

 one chance in a year to hunt can not do 

 much damage, even if he shoots more than 

 his share. It is the rich, idle man, it is 

 the money bag and not the hunting bag, 

 which reduces the game in this country. 

 I know men belonging to swell hunting 

 clubs who cannot hit a barn door at 10 

 yards. Yet these men always return from 

 a hunting trip with 50 or 60 rabbits or 

 birds. Plow do they get them? Easily 

 enough. Their club membership gives 

 them the privilege of hiring the game- 

 keeper to shoot game for them on the club 

 preserve. 



It is a fact that the more game preserves 

 there are the less game there is in the 

 woods and fields. In a few years it will 



APPROVES THE CRUSADE AGAINST GAME 

 HOGS. 



The more I read Recreation the better 

 I like your style of doing business, espe- 

 cially in the line of game, fish and bird 

 protection. The educational power of the 

 magazine along this line cannot be over- 

 estimated. I should judge from the squeals 

 I hear from Webber and others of his 

 class that some of your gentle hints have 

 touched the tender, or, I should say, rot- 

 ten, spot in some one's anatomy. But you 

 probably never hear from a quarter of the 

 bull's-eyes you have made. Many decent 

 men kill too much game until they happen 

 to pick up your magazine, and after read- 

 ing it they resolve to "go their way and 

 sin no more," and you hear nothing about 

 it. The question of game and forest 

 protection is of vital importance to every 

 lover of nature. The game laws are a 

 dead letter in this locality. The game 

 warden has a large law practice and gets 

 no salary as warden; therefore he doesn't 

 turn his hand over toward enforcing the 

 laws. I have seen the law violated on his 

 own property, and informed him of a gang 

 who were dynamiting fish almost at the 

 back door of his summer residence on 

 French creek, but he took no action. A 

 local organization of the L. A. S. is what 

 we need here. 



A. E. Hatch, Union City, Pa. 



GAME NOTES. 

 Two years ago in June I went with 

 friends trout fishing on the Madunkeunk, 

 a stream 8 miles from here. At a place 

 where the ground had been made unusually 

 soft by recent rains I saw some large 

 moose tracks, which were punched into the 

 ground to the depth of* a foot. I told the 

 boys to notice the tracks and passed on. 

 One of the party called me to come back 

 and see the deer he had found. I had 

 stepped directly over a track which con- 

 tained a small fawn. It was' dead and lay 

 curled up in the track like a kitten. We 

 thought it could not be over one day old, 

 and perhaps not that, and had either been 

 dropped by the doe directly into the 

 moose track, or had fallen in and could not 

 get out. It was about the size of a house 

 cat, but with longer legs. Perhaps some 

 reader can tell us how old it was. 



E. A. Weatherbee, Lincoln, Me. 



Hon. L. T. Carleton, Chief Fish and 

 Game Commissioner of Maine, has is- 

 sued his annual report for 1899, in which 

 he states that 1,780 guides are registered 



in that State. He says 15.312 people have 



