FROM THE GAME FIELDS. 



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now dump their refuse into a large field, 

 around which an embankment has been 

 thrown. That field is about full, and we 

 may expect the levee to be cut some night, 

 as was once done, and all that lime and 

 other chemicals to go tearing down the 

 stream, killing everything for miles. 



I have recently read with much pleasure 

 3'our "Camping and Camp Outfits" and 

 your "Cruisings in the Cascades." 



Frank L. Littleton. 



HUNTING PHILIPPIN03. 



Iloilo, Panay, Philippine Islands. 

 Editor Recreation: 



Your magazine has caught up with me 

 away out here, and has received a hearty 

 welcome. I have been much interested in 

 your crusade against the game hogs, and 

 have been thinking it might be well to 

 ship a few of them out here on trial. We 

 could give them exciting hunts and would 

 place no limit on their killing. But they 

 may not fancy the game, as it shoots back 

 occasionally. The game is ladroncs (rob- 

 bers), and they are found in coveys of 

 10 to 200. We get the best sport and 

 the most game by hunting at night, and I 

 assure you the sport affords quite enough 

 excitement to satisfy the desires of the 

 most ravenous game hog. Our battles of 

 November, particularly the battles of Jaro 

 and of Pavia. fought by our second and 

 third battalions November 2ist, broke 

 up, scattered and satisfied the genuine in- 

 surrectos of Panay. I wish you could 

 have seen our brave young Americans 

 rushing the trenches that day. It was 

 grand. But we lost some fine boys there. 

 Those battles and our subsequent swarm- 

 ing over the island caused all honest, fair 

 minded insurrectos to retire to their 

 homes and begin the reconstruction busi- 

 ness. The riff raff, however, having no 

 homes, and no desire to work, organized 

 into robber bands, and have since been 

 amusing themselves by robbing, murder- 

 ing and burning out, not U. S. soldiers, 

 but defenseless natives. To meet this con- 

 dition we have broken up the ist Separate 

 Brigade, 8th Army Corps, into small one 

 company garrisons, holding towns every- 

 where. From those we send out small 

 hunting parties to destroy ladrones. Until 

 we became well acquainted with the coun- 

 try we were obliged to hunt by daylight, 

 meeting with poor success; but recently 

 our work has been down by night, result- 

 ing in some large bags. In fact, since our 

 lads have developed into genuine game 

 hogs at this sport it beats potting turkeys 

 by moonlight, and we place no restrictions 

 on the sport. 



I am afraid this island will never be- 

 come a sportsman's paradise. There are 

 plenty of snipe, a few curlews, and a few 



measly little quails about half the size 

 of the Bob White. I have seen them only 

 on the wing, so can not describe them ac- 

 curately. They appear to be dark in color, 

 and I found them only in the moun- 

 tains. We are not using any shot guns 

 now so we get none of this small game. 

 I have not seen a duck since I came here, 

 nor have I seen a wild animal of any kind, 

 though I have heard there are deer on 

 neighboring islands. 



I have just been reading Recreation* 

 for January and trying to cool myself by 

 meditating over "A Beginning on Quails." 

 where our friend was troubled by the cold 

 November wind. Will you please send 

 over some of that wind with the game 

 hogs? We need something cold. 



Accept hearty congratulations on the 

 continued prosperity of Recreation. I 

 remember you had hopes when I found 

 you and the infant cuddled together in one 

 corner of an office in the shadow of Brook- 

 lyn Bridge. That was some years ago; 

 but how that infant has grown! 



C. B. Hardin, 

 Captain i8th U. S. Infantry. 



NEBRASKA WILL IMPROVE. 



It is useless to work for game protection 

 here. The people are not in sympathy 

 with the idea, and do not care whether 

 there is any game protection or not. There 

 has been much obnoxious legislation here 

 on the game question, which has disgusted 

 and antagonized every man who owns a 

 gun. The game laws are not enforced, 

 nor can they be, apparently. When there 

 is any prosecution it is only a case 

 of spite work and bad blood, where some 

 fellow has it in for an enemy. This is true 

 all over the State as far as I know. At 

 any rate, there is not enough game left 

 here to quarrel about. Rabbits arc. of 

 course, considered a nuisance here. There 

 are a few quails, still fewer prairie chickens 

 and the spring and fall flights of ducks 

 and geese. All told, there are not enough 

 birds to pay for going out with a gun. \\ e 

 have a game warden in Idaho, and I have 

 yet to hear of one effort on his pari to 

 protect game or punish those who infringe 

 on the game laws. People kill game just 

 the same and wink the other eye. They 

 call it mutton, veal, turkey or any other 

 old thing. If a man is arrested he can hot 

 be convicted, as he has the sympathy of 

 the judge, every man on the jury, and the 

 public. There are a few people who re 

 spect the laws, but the majority will not. 

 How are you going to make the general 

 public take up a thing they don't want. 

 don't like, and all kick against? I've been 

 studying this matter 20 years and never 

 have solved it yet. The game ha been 

 steadily decreasing, and the next genera- 

 tion will have to content themselves with 



