'FROM THE CAME FIELDS. 



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stated correct number in the party. How 

 did you get it? 



J. M. Nash, D.D.S., Brenham, Tex. 



I still think the report as to quantity of 

 game killed is false. It is a matter of 

 record, however, that at least 2 antelope 

 were killed and that Gillet and Tucker 

 were arrested, convicted and fined $50 

 each and costs. 



Texas has a law prohibiting the killing 

 of antelope at any time before 1902, and I 

 am only sorry the law makers did not 

 make the penalty imprisonment instead of 

 a money fine. Any man who would kill 

 one of the few antelope remaining in 

 Texas should be locked up for at least 6 

 months. — Editor. 



GAME IN CUBA. 



I am not a lost soul, nor ia lost patron 

 of Recreation because my subscription 

 lapsed while I was a soldier in Cuba. 



Since my discharge I have bought 

 each month's issue at the bookstore, going 

 in always at an hour when the store was 

 likely to be full, hoping to induce others 

 to buy. I usually get the last one. 



While in Cuba I had several hunts. 

 Deer, wild guineas and quails are abun- 

 dant. Indeed, I never before saw so many 

 quails. In time, Cuba will be a hunter's 

 Eden. The drawback is the impenetrable 

 undergrowth. 



The deer are small, but oh, how good 

 the meat was, after canned roast beef, rot- 

 ten beef, and refrigerated beef ! Anything 

 is preferable to meat dead for weeks, yet 

 alive with maggots. If anyone is curious 

 to know the taste of it, let him chew slip- 

 pery elm and rotten meat. Chew on it for 

 5 minutes, and then guess what he's eat- 

 ing. That would give him a fair idea of 

 what the American soldier had to eat in 

 Cuba. 



H. W. M., New Orleans, La. 



A. D.D.S. DUCK HOG. 



Dr. C. F. Gould has difficulty in making his 

 friends believe he brought down 86 ducks near 

 McCook Sunday, thereby paying for his $10 li- 

 cense with the 72 ducks he sold to a local com- 

 mission firm. "It was the best hunting I ever 

 had," said Dr. Gould "It just seemed as though 

 I couldn't shoot them fast enough I don't know 

 why the ducks were so thick, because the day was 

 warm. Not many hunters were out on account 

 of the necessity of having a license." — Sioux City, 

 la., Journal. 



I wrote the "Doctor" and asked him if 

 it were so. He replies: 



The shoot with Mr. Halliday was cor- 

 rectly reported, only it took 3 days; but the 

 birds were fine, mostly redheads and can- 

 vas-backs. It took place at McCook lake. 

 South Dakota, March 17. 



C. F. Gould. 



On his letterhead Gould calls himself a 

 D.D.S. He would have the people call 

 him a Doctor of Dental Surgery; but to 

 sportsmen who read of his spring duck 

 slaughter and of his selling the birds these 

 initials will convey an entirely different 

 meaning. — Editor. 



SLAUGHTERING BIG GAME. 



At if to emphasize recent report of slaughter 

 of big game in Alaska the steamer Al-Ki on her 

 last trip brought from Wrangel 1,000 deer skins, 

 consigned to Napa, Cal. 



On the American side of the line there is little 

 or no protection for game, and even in Northwest 

 Territory the condition of affairs is deplorable. 

 The law prohibits the killing of moose, caribou, 

 deer, etc., between January 1 and October 1. The 

 Yukon council recently decided to hold the law in 

 abeyance, as regards game already killed, until 

 March 1st. 



The Dawson News says hunting is still going 

 on, and, as game is plentiful, the kill has been 

 large. "Last week 100 caribou were shot in one 

 day, within a comparatively small area. Ole Erick- 

 son, who has just arrived from a hunting trip 100 

 miles East of here, says game is being slaughtered 

 recklessly. One man has 50 tons of caribou and 

 moose meat. Only the choicest pieces are being 

 freighted to market. Along the trail may be seen 

 numerous carcasses abandoned by hunters." — 

 Blaine, Wash., Journal. 



This is the way of the market hunter. 

 His motto is, "Kill everything in sight 

 and let future generations go to hell." A 

 State prison is the only place that is good 

 enough for such degraded brutes. — 

 Editor. 



DUCKS IN MINNESOTA. 

 A year ago, W. Brockelsby and I weit 

 to Lake Park, Minn., to shoot ducks. We 

 arrived late in the afternoon, and by the 

 time we got our camp in readiness it was 

 nearly dusk. We saw a number of ducks 

 coming in to feed on the marshes, so we 

 put out some decoys, and took posi- 

 tions on shore. A small flock of mallards 

 came our way, and then our guns spoke. 

 A single bird came down. From the next 

 flock I got 2 birds. Then I left Brockels- 

 by and went to a spot in the rushes, where 

 there was open water on 3 sides of me. 

 I had no sooner taken my place than a 

 flock of widgeon came, 2 of them falling 

 to my shot. It was then too dark to shoot, 

 and I returned to camp. When my com- 

 panion came in we counted our game ; he 

 had 7 ducks and I, 5. We were back at 

 the shooting grounds by dawn the next 

 day, and the ducks came fast and thick. 

 We had 2 hours of good sport, killing 

 12 ducks and one Canada goose. 



E. O. Hougland, Edinburg, 111. 



GAME NOTES. 



I find a professed sportsman in Wash- 

 ington who tells of hunting expeditions 

 from which he brings home robins, and 

 who always goes for the ducks on their 

 Northbound visits to our waters. 



When I propose to him to subscribe for 



