FROM THE CAME FIELDS. 



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the time hereinbefore limited for use as 

 herein specified and not otherwise. Who- 

 ever shall offend against any of the pro- 

 visions of this section shall be guilty of a 

 misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall be 

 punished by a fine of not less than $10 nor 

 more than $25 and costs of prosecution or 

 by imprisonment in the county jail for 

 not less than 10 days nor more than 30 

 days for each and every bird so caught, 

 taken or killed, shipped or had in posses- 

 sion or under control. 



Here's a model game law, and it is a 

 direct result of the persistent and untiring 

 work of Chief Warden Lange of the Min- 

 nesota Division of the League, aided and 

 abetted by all the League members in that 

 State. This is another illustration of the 

 difference between this League and many 

 other so called game protective associa- 

 tions. Most of them simply meet once a 

 year and do a lot of resoluting. We saw 

 wood and pile it up, so you can see it. — 

 Editor. 



THE REAL. DESTROYERS OF NEW- 

 FOUNDLAND CARIBOU. 



In March Recreation I note J. R. D.'s 

 accusation against Mrs. J. W. M. Car- 

 deza's hunting party which visited New- 

 foundland on the steam yacht Eleanor. 

 As I had the honor of being one of that 

 party and happen to know something 

 about the real destroyers of Newfound- 

 land caribou, I will enlighten J. R. D. on 

 the subject. 



Though the yacht visited other points 

 on the Northeastern coast, no hunting 

 was done save at the Birchy ponds, in 

 Newfoundland. Seven $40 licenses were 

 taken out by members of the party, each 

 entitling the holder to kill 3 caribou. 

 The entire kill of the party was one or 2 

 head less than the number to which they 

 were legally limited. Several of us had 

 opportunities to kill many more caribou 

 had we cared to join the ranks of the 

 much advertised game hogs. 



As no sportsman likes to part with tro- 

 phies of his own skill, some of the party 

 bought from natives at Bay of Islands a 

 number of heads to be mounted and given 

 to friends. 



If the caribou of Newfoundland are 

 ever exterminated it will not be by 

 non-resident, lawfully licensed sports- 

 men. It is the natives who are killing off 

 the animals. I am told caribou meat is 

 sold all winter at St. Johns for iy 2 cents 

 a pound. 



While the Cardeza party was in camp 

 at Birchy ponds, 3 men came down the 

 river from the Northern coast and camped 

 on an adjacent lake. Their firing attracted 

 qur attention. On investigation we 



found they were there to secure their 

 winter's meat. 



They would wait on the Southern shore 

 until a band of caribou appeared and 

 started to cross the lake. Then the 3 

 butchers, 2 at the oars and one armed 

 with 3 antiquated blunderbusses, in the 

 bow, would row out and intercept the ani- 

 mals. When at close range the man in 

 the bow would discharge his heavily load- 

 ed weapons at the hapless victims, kill- 

 ing stags, does and fawns alike. Then, 

 as the guns were muzzle loaders, the sur- 

 viving caribou were killed with a pole 

 or an ax. 



In 3 days the men killed more than 20 

 caribou. Then, cutting off and throwing 

 away the heads and feet, they tied one 

 carcass to another like a string of canal 

 boats, and towed their meat home. 



During our stay we saw 3 other parties 

 of natives engaged in the same business. 

 The shores of the ponds and lakes of 

 Newfoundland, strewn with the rotting 

 bones and weather beaten antlers of 

 slaughtered caribou, bear grim evidence 

 against the native meat hunter. 



E. W. L., New York City. 



A GOOD DEER SEASON IN ONTARIO.. 



The deer hunting season in the Province 

 of Ontario is considerably shorter than in 

 any other of the localities where deer are 

 found in abundance, the close season be- 

 ing November 16th to October 31st of the 

 year following, allowing only 15 days for 

 the hunter to enjoy this grand sport. The 

 Grand Trunk Railway system has given 

 this matter considerable attention, and the 

 districts reached by its railway are the 

 finest hunting grounds in the Dominion of 

 Canada. 



The returns for 1900 are not quite all in, 

 but those to date show 88 licenses were is- 

 sued to non-residents, and 4,200 to resi- 

 dents of the Province of Ontario; also 105 

 moose licenses, making a total of 4,393; 

 but the probabilities are that at least 5,000 

 licenses were issued. The hunters during 

 the 1900 season have not been quite so suc- 

 cessful as those who went up into these 

 districts in previous years. This was ac- 

 counted for by the bad weather that was 

 experienced during the last open season. 

 It does not mean a diminution of deer, as 

 they are increasing in numbers each suc- 

 cessive year, owing to the stringent regu- 

 lations which the Government enforce. 



A legal season for the shooting of moose 

 was opened in 1900 for the first time in 5 

 years, and is now closed for 3 years. 

 There were taken out during the open sea- 

 son by the express companies alone 1,621 

 deer, weighing in the aggregate 176,312 

 pounds. Chief Game Warden Tinsley 

 states that not less than 5,000 deer were 



