FROM THE GAME FIELDS. 



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Our Deputy State Game Warden has 

 been doing some good work lately. He 

 arrested several persons who have been 

 killing game contrary to law. Three were 

 fined $100 each, and 2 others bound over 

 to appear before the district court. Their 

 trial will come on soon. They are accused 

 of slaughtering elk and mountain sheep 

 out of season. The warden raided their 

 camp and found 8 whole elk hides and 

 some half dozen that had been quartered, 

 3 fine bull elk heads, the carcasses of sev- 

 eral mountain sheep and one fine buck 

 sheep, head measuring 17 inches at back 

 of horns. Also about 500 pounds of dried 

 elk meat, besides 5 whole carcasses of elk. 

 Game is quite plentiful within 30 miles of 

 here, but poachers had better beware, for 

 our game warden means business. Give 

 it to the game hogs; they deserve all you 

 can give them, and more too. 



John L. B. Mayer, Augusta, Mont. 



In the town of Easton, N. Y., recently, 2 

 novices in the art of carrying a gun were 

 returning from a duck hunt. One walked 

 behind the other and carried his gun on his 

 shoulder, muzzle to the front. 



Suddenly there was a loud report, and 

 something dropped. It was the man in 

 front. The hammer of his companion's gun 

 had caught in the bushes and — you can 

 guess the rest. 



The man who was in the rear felt bad, 

 but he didn't bleed any when they picked 

 the shot out of the other fellow. 



Careful sportsmen, especially if they have 

 families, should fight shy of such fellows. 

 C. H. Smodell, Stillwater, N. Y. 



The hunting ground of Northern Min- 

 nesota does not receive, in any of the East- 

 ern sporting journals, the attention it de- 

 serves. 



Moose are more plentiful here than in 

 Maine. Deer are easily found within a few 

 miles of this city. Bear are fairly numerous 

 but hard to get at. 



Ducks and geese are abundant; in Oc- 

 tober, goose shooting is especially good. 

 Grouse were plentiful up to last summer, 

 when the heavy rains drowned countless 

 numbers of the chicks. Unless we have a 

 close season of 5 years on grouse they will 

 be exterminated. 



Brook trout and Lake Superior trout 

 are numerous and grow to great size. 



The pike, pickerel, bass and perch fish- 

 ing, in our small lakes, is unsurpassed in 

 the Union. 



This is a bad country for game or fish 

 hogs, as our sportsmen refuse them any 

 aid or information. 



I hope your crusade against the game 

 hog will flourish and wish every success 

 to the L. A. S. 



W. M. Mee, Duluth, Minn. 



The Utica Fish and Game Protective As- 

 sociation, lately organized, has started out 

 in the right direction. Article II. of its con- 

 stitution reads as follows: 



4 This association will not, in the exer- 

 cise of its Corporate affairs, or by its Cor- 

 porate funds or resources, aid or engage 

 in competitive contests of sport; or offer 

 prizes or benefits in such matters, which 

 will in any way tend to the greater de- 

 struction of song-birds, fish or game, or 

 tend to increase the prowess or dexterity of 

 sportsmen in such destruction; nor will it 

 promote trap shooting of pigeons; but will, 

 however, leave its members free to act in 

 such respects according to their own in- 

 dividual inclinations." 



It would be a good scheme for all the 

 fish and game clubs in the country to thus 

 oppose and condemn side hunts, side fish- 

 ing contests, the shooting of live pigeons 

 from the trap, and all other unsportsman- 

 like events. 



Lincoln, Neb. 

 The Nebraska Game Law is a " crack- 

 a-jack." No blind shooting, no boat shoot- 

 ing, no decoy shooting, no shooting from 

 a constructed blind. I think game laws 

 are all right and I will stand by them to 

 the last; but when a lot of old " Pop " 

 legislators, who do not know ducks from 

 geese, put out such laws as these I am none 

 too well pleased. They give us from No- 

 vember 1st to January 1st to shoot quail, 

 which are fast becoming scarce, and deny 

 us any chance whatever at wild fowl which 

 are migratory and far more numerous. 



Game is scarce in this part of California 

 but I am told there are a few mule deer 

 near here. I doubt it, for the mule deer 

 stay up in the Northern part of the State. 

 There are a few common deer in the moun- 

 tains about 9 miles from here, but they are 

 very shy. There are a few quails, grouse, 

 pigeons, squirrels and rabbits, but no fish 

 any nearer than the old Pacific. 



Arthur J. Thompson, Pasadena, Cal. 



In the deer country of Northern Michi- 

 gan, last fall, my father killed a 240 pound 

 buck. The deer hunting season is only 22 

 days and the hunters are nearly equal in 

 number to the deer. Notwithstanding the 

 many deer that are killed each year, the 

 increase is great. My father, for the past 

 3 years, has killed all the law allows, which 

 is 5 each year. 



W. Witbeck, Allegan, Mich. 



Can the readers of Recreation post me 

 on what game can be found about 150 miles 

 North of Winnipeg, near Lake Manitoba, 

 Canada? Is it found in any quantity. 



F. H. Best, Milwaukee, Wis. 



