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RECREATION. 



put only a few under it, and half a shovel- 

 ful on top. The biscuit should have suffi- 

 cient heat to bake them in about 20 min- 

 utes. 



Coffee for 4. 



7 tablespoonfuls ground coffee to 5 cups 

 of cold water. Let it just boil up thoroughly 

 and add 1-2 cup cold water, which will 

 settle the grounds. 



Beans. 



Soak 1 pint of beans over night in 3 

 pints of water. In the morning drain them, 

 and put them in the kettle with 1 teaspoon- 

 ful salt, 1-4 teaspoonful of pepper and a 

 small piece of bacon. Fill the kettle 2-3 

 full of water and boil 3 hours, or until ten- 

 der, and mealy, adding more water if they 

 become dry. 



To Fry Game. 



Wash carefully, cut in convenient pieces 

 and lay in the frying pan with sufficient 

 grease to keep from sticking. Turn often, 

 and salt when nicely done. 



These are plain dishes, but will prove 

 palatable to healthy hunters. Another time 

 I will tell how to prepare more complicated 

 dishes, such as stuffed squirrel, light 'bread, 

 roast duck, deviled meat and apple dum- 

 plings. Mrs. Archie Atwood. 



SENATOR SMITH WOULD HELP THE GAME 

 BUTCHERS. 



Albert Lea, Minn. 

 Editor Recreation : 



I greatly desire to aid and encourage you 

 •in your chosen work, in which I am deeply 

 interested. As prosecuting attorney of this 

 county for 8 years, I successfully enforced 

 the game laws, secured many convictions 

 (there were no acquittals) and established 

 a wholesome respect for the game laws 

 in this community. In order to do this I 

 offered and paid liberal rewards out of 

 my private means. I also organized a gun 

 club with a large membership and induced 

 the club to offer and pay rewards for as- 

 sistance in game protection. During a por- 

 tion of that time Samuel F. Fullerton was 

 executive agent of the State Commission 

 and enforced the game laws with energy, 

 vigor and intelligence. During the 2 

 years previous to 1901 we had no encour- 

 agement from the State Commission; but 

 with the change of administration the first 

 of this year Mr. Fullerton was restored to 

 his former position, fortunately for the in- 

 terests at stake, and we are no longer 

 ashamed to show our heads above water. 



While I was on my Northern trip last fall 

 my eyes were opened as never before to 

 the grand preserves of big game within 

 this State, and to the open, notorious and 

 wholesale violations of the game laws. 

 From the time we left home until our re- 

 turn we did not see a warden, and our 

 licenses were never called for going or 

 coming, during the trip of over 900 miles. 



Two of us came by rail over 400 miles with 

 5 deer in our possession, but it did not 

 seem to be anybody's business to ascertain 

 how or where we got them, or whether we 

 were residents or non-residents, although 

 the license fee differs from 25 cents for 

 residents to $25 for non-residents. 



I enclose a clipping from the St. Paul 

 Pioneer Press, which has always consist- 

 ently advocated the preservation of our 

 forests and game. Fortunately, the bill of 

 Senator J. H. Smith, described in one of 

 the enclosures, can not possibly ibe enacted, 

 but it illustrates the character of the indi- 

 vidual offering it, and he should be given 

 his just deserts in Recreation. 



Contrasted with this measure we have 

 passed a law prohibiting the sale of all 

 kinds of game birds in this State. This 

 should also be extended to game animals. 

 Of course this man Smith did not support 

 the bill. This is the only practical means 

 of preserving game, and until the sale is 

 prohibited, all other measures must neces- 

 sarily prove abortive. There is no more 

 reason why a man should be permitted to 

 make his living by slaughtering birds and 

 animals that he did not raise or have a 

 share in propagating or protecting than 

 there is why he should be permitted to 

 prey on the flocks and herds of private in- 

 dividuals and have his depredations paid 

 for by the State. Close the market, stop 

 the sale, and the law will be self-enforc- 

 ing. The pot hunter will sell his gun, kill 

 his dog, and perchance undertake to earn 

 an honest living; and the game hog will 

 naturally slink into the pen you have so 

 diligently provided for him, where he can 

 be isolated, fumigated and disinfected at 

 leisure. 



My attention was particularly attracted 

 to the article in March Recreation, "How 

 to Stop Hounding," a subject which has 

 received but scant attention, and for which 

 no practical remedy has been previously 

 suggested. From nersonal experience I 

 know the remedy suggested in the above 

 mentioned article can be made effectual. 

 Last season our party of 5 made an exten- 

 sive hunting tour through Itasca county, 

 this State. Our first objective point was 

 the Big Fork country. From Grand Rap- 

 ids to the Big Fork we frequently heard 

 hounds running deer. Our laws make it 

 lawful for any person to kill hounds found 

 running deer, and we took pains to make it 

 understood wherever we went that we 

 should kill any hound found running at 

 large. It is marvelous the way that threat 

 got abroad. While traveling during the 

 day and when making camp at night we 

 usually heard hounds running deer, but 

 in the morning they were as silent as the 

 tomb. Our stay in the Big Fork country 

 was brief, but while we stayed the hounds 

 were silent. We spent about 2 weeks 



