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RECREATION. 



better, 1 think, than Mr*. Gunn's experi 



ence. 



Brown Higman, Minneapolis, Minn. 



Have decided to become a member of 

 the L. A. S. I have been following its 

 work, through Recreation, and put off 

 joining because I thought you were 

 overdoing the roasting business. Now, 

 however, I have seen the effect it has on 

 men who fear getting laid out cold in print, 

 and have come to the conclusion that it is 

 good medicine, if it is drastic. I am not 

 a dude sportsman, but a common, every- 

 day toiler, with 2 weeks' vacation a year in 

 the wo ; but I want to see the game 

 protected. Only through protection can 

 those of my cl. have any sport in proper 

 season. Kindly forward application blanks 

 and circulars. xT __ 



W. B. Truesdell, Rochester, N. Y. 



In May Recreation D. E. Moxley says 

 that the law protecting deer was not vio- 

 lated in this State last winter. I have it 

 from a friend who spent a week in the 

 Adirondacks last fall that while there he 

 saw 5 dogs running deer. If I can get to 

 the woods this season and see any dogs 

 running deer there will be fewer dogs in 

 the Adirondacks, or you can call me a 

 poor shot. I would count my trip as much 

 of a success if I could knock over a few of 

 those hounds as if I got the deer they 

 were after. 



J. M. Furnside, Schenectady, N. Y. 



In reply to your letter relative to re- 

 ported flocks of passenger pigeons in this 

 vicinity, will say I have investigated the 

 matter. In this case, as in so many others, 

 mourning doves were mistaken for the 

 "real thing." They congregate by thou- 

 sands at a roosting place on Cedar Point, 

 just West of this city, and some embryo 

 ornithologist spread the report that the 

 passenger pigeons had returned. I am 

 sceptical of the truth of their reported re- 

 appearance at various points; but should 

 I ever be convinced of their presence in 

 this section I will promptly notify Recrea- 

 tion. 



E. F. Gamble, M. D., Coldwater, Mich. 



I received a letter from you asking if I 

 had killed 17 deer on one hunting trip. 

 Yes, I killed 17 deer in 2 days in October 

 last. 



Mark Batty, Vernal, Utah. 



ANSWER. 



And thus you have branded yourself as 

 a disgrace to the community in which 

 y#u live. I am astounded that there could 



be' found anywhere on the continent a 

 man who, in these days of the rapid dis- 

 appearance of our game animals, would 

 commit such an atrocious piece of slaugh- 

 ter. The punishment for such an act 

 should be as severe as that for horse 

 stealing. — Editor. 



Henry Sayer, of the sheriff's office at Seattle, was 

 called out of the county a few days since. He put in a 

 day duck shooting on the Samish flats, and came back 

 with 67 fine mallards as evidence of his prowess with the 

 gun. He says that ducks are easy to get up that way, 

 providing a man knows how to shoot. Since the Samish 

 flats are a popular resort for Seattle Nimrods, and few of 

 them get more than eight or ten birds in a day's hunt, his 

 remarks are taken by a few score would-be hunters as a 

 personal insinuation. — White River Journal. 



This hoggish slaughter is outlawry. If the sheriff of 

 King county permits his deputy thus to outrage the laws 

 of the state and brag about it, without arresting him, he 

 ought to be impeached. A sportsman and a hog are so 

 unlike that the law protects the former and condemns the 

 latter. — New Whatcom (Wash.) Blade 



Here is another editor who knows a 

 hog when he sees its bristles. 



Mr. James M. Southwick, Curator of 

 Natural History in the Museum at Provi- 

 dence, R. I., states that a number of deer 

 have appeared in that State within the 

 past 3 or 4 years. Can any one tell where 

 they came from, or how they managed to 

 reach little Rhody, from any of the places 

 where deer are usually found. 



The sportsmen and naturalists of Rhode 

 Island are making an effort to have a law 

 passed protecting these deer for a num- 

 ber of years, and this should be an easy 

 task. 



We may congratulate ourselves on the 

 progress made during the past year, for 

 certainly more and more people are com- 

 ing into line. The result in bird protec- 

 tion is especially gratifying; but much 

 more might be done during 1900. The re- 

 quest of our president shall receive an im- 

 mediate response, and I hope the proposed 

 bills may be oassed. Depend on my readi- 

 ness to do all in my power to promote the 

 interests of the L. A. S. 



J. B. Warren, Principal Glenwood Gram- 

 mar School, Rochester, N. Y. 



I have been much interested in the re- 

 ports published in Recreation concern- 

 ing the return of the pigeon. I enclose a 

 pertinent clipping from the Salem (O.) 

 Daily News. 



P. A. Greenamyer, Columbiana, O. 



The other day Michael Healy, of the Bolivar Gunclub, 

 shot a perfect specimen of the wild, or passenger, pigeon, 

 the first seen near Bolivar, N. Y., since 1889. The beech 

 ridges a few miles South of Bolivar were a favorite roost- 

 ing ground for pigeons, and thousands were slaughtered 

 every year. The last great nesting in this region was in 

 1 886. 



