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RECREATION. 



to the common breed of hogs. They are 

 your prize porkers. 



Give it to 'em good and hard. They 

 deserve it. R. C. S., Decatur, 111. 



Can you blame Missouri, or any other 

 state for enacting non-resident hunting 

 laws, when such swine as these are allowed 

 to run at large? Certainly not, and I hope 

 to live to see the time when all states will 

 have laws debarring game hogs. It's the 

 only way to curb their brutal instincts. 

 Rings in their noses will never stop them. 



ANOTHER WAIL FROM CALIFORNIA. 



Los Angeles, Cal. 

 Editor Recreation: Enclosed you will 

 find an account of the worst example of 

 gluttony ever displayed, I think, on the 

 Pacific Coast. 



The hunting record of the season here has been broken by 

 W. H. Dupee and C. H. Lester of Chicago, and J. Turner 

 of Plymouth, Pa., who have just returned from a 2 days' 

 hunt below the line into Mexico. The party was accom- 

 panied by W. S. Denton, of Coronado, as guide. The num- 

 ber of quail, by actual count, brought back by the hunters 

 was an even 800. The members of the party report that in 

 all their experience in hunting they never before found so 

 many quail. The brush seemed to be literally alive with 

 them, and the whirr of many wings, at times, was almost 

 deafening. Dupee, Lester and Turner are all crack shots, 

 the latter gentleman being known as one of the crack shots 

 of the East. 



That the Hotel del Coronado should har- 

 bor such beasts as these surprises me. It 

 is generally supposed that none but gentle- 

 men stop there. Even an Indian would 

 have sense enough to stop before the hun- 

 dred mark was reached, but these hogs 

 seemed to know no stopping place. 



Think of this score and hang your dimin- 

 ished heads, O ye Posey county and 

 Stevens Point hogs! 



We Californians, however, console our- 

 selves with the melancholy reflection that 

 the shooters were not natives. 



Keep your eyes peeled, Mr. Editor, and I 

 may send you some facts about sea-fishing 

 at Catalina Island, this summer, that wiH 

 make you grab your branding-iron in a 

 hurry. Thousands of pounds of good fish, 

 go to waste every year, over there, wasted 

 by Eastern tourists who want to make rec- 

 ord bags to prate about when th€y get 

 home. Keep on soaking it to the game 

 hogs. They can stand a lot of it. 



When your magazine is more universally 

 read and appreciated, the sportsmen's mil- 

 lennium will be at hand. Paisano. 



L. E. Provost, J. D. Ennis and S. A. Osteen went out 

 bird shooting, on Saturday morning, and returned in a few 

 hours with 65 robins. 



Indian River (Fla.) " Advocate." 



The disreputable wretches! Why doesn't 

 Florida protect her song and insectivorous 

 birds? And why don't some decent man 

 take a base ball bat and thin out the hogs 

 who destroy such birds? 



HALL IS ANOTHER. 



I enclose clipping from an alleged sports- 

 man's paper, published in the West. On 

 page 151 is part of the article, and on page 

 152 is the motto of the paper: " Fish and 

 Game Protection " — a strange contrast. I 

 think both the author of the article and the 

 editor of the paper are entitled to member- 

 ship in your swine herd. 



George H. Dormer, Eveleth, Minn. 



The article referred to is headed " A 

 Sportsman's Klondike " and is written by 

 one W. R. Hall. He tells several stories of 

 men who have displayed their hoggish 

 tastes while fishing in certain Minnesota 

 lakes. Then he adds: 



" My wife and I caught an even 100 small-mouth black 

 bass in 4 hours, that averaged between 2% and 3 pounds 

 each, and one weighed 6 pounds. 



" Just how many fish it is possible to catch in a day I do 

 not know. We always got tired after playing and landing 

 100 or so. It matters little which lake you go to, the 

 result is the same. You find your wrist giving out after 

 steadily playing the gamy fish of this section a few hours. 

 Two fishermen, to my knowledge, caught over 300 bass in 

 6 hours, and their luck was nothing extraordinary." 



If Mr. Hall had any sense of decency he 

 would be so heartily ashamed of this 

 slaughter that he would never mention it. 

 On the contrary he shows his utterly de- 

 praved taste by boasting of his butchery in 

 print. He needs the services of a mission- 

 ary to civilize him. — Editor. 



W. H. Ellis writes to the St. Louis Globe 

 Democrat, a description of a scheme for 

 baiting wild turkeys with corn, or other 

 grain, and goes on to tell his brother hogs 

 how, by putting out the corn every day un- 

 til the turkeys get to coming, and then hid- 

 ing in a blind near the baited ground and 

 waiting until the turkeys get well bunched, 

 within 20 yards of the blind, he can kill 4 

 or 5 at a shot. It is a great pity that some 

 powder could not be devised, for the es- 

 pecial use of game hogs, that would cause 

 their guns to explode when attempting 

 Such shots as this. It would indeed be 

 gratifying to chronicle a few cases of such 

 men having their heads blown off, when 

 attempting such cold blooded slaughter of 

 game as he advises. 



Over 1,600 fish were captured in one haul of a seine at 

 Crills Mill dam in the Sioux river, near Vermillion, S. D., 

 the largest catch, it is said, ever made in any stream of that 

 section of the country. 



Speaking of game hogs — how's this? 

 Guy T. Ashenden, Auburndale, Mass. 



I want to congratulate you on the grand 

 work you are doing on the game swine. 

 There are so many of them that Recrea- 

 tion's scalding barrel does not seem to get 

 all the -bristles off; yet it is working to its 

 full capacity. 



It occurs to me sometimes that we 

 sportsmen do not always do all we might 



