FROM THE CAME FIELDS. 



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justment on said strand for enlarging the 

 coils of the latter to form carrying loops, 

 and a hook formed on one of said buckles 

 and adapted to engage the other buckle for 

 sustaining the carrier in applied position 

 when used as a belt. 



NOT A QUESTION OF GUNS. 



I am heartily in accord with the senti- 

 ments expressed by Paul Mouser on page 

 203 of March Recreation, only the gentle- 

 men should have left the $8 and the $100 

 gun out of the question, because when the 

 poor farmer's boy goes out with the $2 

 ferret he leaves the gun home. He puts 

 the ferret in the hole, and a meal bag over 

 the entrance. The rabbit, terrified, bounds 

 for the open and a chance for life, runs 

 into the bag, is yanked out, and, squealing 

 pitifully, is clubbed to death without a 

 single chance for its life. 



Is it not too bad that the poor farmer's 

 boy who does this is termed a bristleback? 

 Let us do away with the unfaithful setter 

 because a hog, using a dog, kills more 

 than his share. 



Getting quails with a setter is as bad 

 as murdering rabbits, Mr. Mouser says, 

 and my experience sustains his argument. 

 The dog points. Then all one has to do is 

 to walk out in front of the dog and kill 

 the quail when it gets up. Therefore, as 

 an amendment to Mr. Mouser's well ad- 

 vanced theory, I suggest leaving both the 

 $8 and the $100 gun at home. 



Harvey J. Flint, Providence, R. I. 



CAN NOT DENY THE CHARGE. 



Snipe shooting is in full swing on Lulu island 

 and the Delta, and sportsmen report varying suc- 

 cess. Last year Q. M. Sergeant Kennedy, of the 

 Sixth Regiment, laid low no less than 337 of these 

 birds, and this year 175 golden plover have fallen 

 to his gun. A curious feature of the Provincial 

 game laws is that no close season is declared for 

 snipe. — Vancouver (B. C.) paper. 



Though Sergeant Kennedy failed to reply 

 to my inquiry regarding the truth of the 

 foregoing report, I received the following : 



Your letter to Fred Kennedy was read 

 aloud in my place of business to-day. Ken- 

 nedy said he would see you in , before 



he would give you particulars. He admit- 

 ted, however, that he had killed, in 1901, 

 687 snipe and plover. 



E. Galloway, Vancouver, B. C. 



As I have said before, a good way not to 

 be called a game hog is not to be one. Mr. 

 Kennedy's refusal to answer my inquiry di- 

 rect can only be taken as evidence of his 

 guilt, and he therefore justly deserves the 

 contempt and reprobation of all decent 

 sportsmen for having killed, as Mr. Gallo- 

 way states, 687 snipe and plover in one 

 season. Mr. Kennedy's number in the game 

 hog pen is 883. — Editor. 



• MAKES WAR ON SPARROWS. 

 I have one strong ally in my relentless 

 war on the English sparrow, although our 

 motives differ. I refer to the shrike. 

 Wherever I live, there is war on the spar- 

 row. Wherever the shrike lives there is 

 also war on the sparrow. He eats them, 

 I do not ; that is the difference between 

 us, but the effect on the sparrow is about 

 the same. I buy guns with great willing- 

 ness, I spread out poison and I continu- 

 ally say hard words. If I find a nest I de- 

 stroy it ; yet I do not see that the pests 

 decrease in number. I wish a stronger 

 voice than mine would call on the Legis- 

 latures of the different States and see if a 

 general war of extermination can not be 

 carried on. English sparrows have driven 

 out the robins and orioles that once nested 

 in our oaks about the house ; and now 

 that dream of a song, the song of the early 

 bluebird, is never heard near a town. Even 

 the obstreperous jays leave in disgust. I do 

 not blame them. By the way, if you live 

 where the sparrow does not, put out little 

 nest boxes for the bluebirds. 



Maude Meredith, New York City. 



PUMP GUN PROHIBITED. 



The new ordinance prohibiting the use 

 of the pump gun in Marin county, this 

 State, is a step in the right direction. In 

 most States the use of a gun larger than 

 10 bore is prohibited. Is not this because 

 the larger bores are considered too de- 

 structive? A 12 gauge repeating shot gun 

 in the hands of a good shot must be far 

 more destructive than a single or double 

 10 bore. I call to mind a letter from a 

 man praising his repeater. He said a flock 

 of 10 ducks flew over his blind and he got 

 them all ; not one escaped. Some say it is 

 not the gun that makes the hog. That may 

 be true ; but if the use of the pump gun is 

 allowed, the hog will certainly use it. Four 

 things must be done before we can have 

 perfect game protection. These are : Pro- 

 hibit the sale of game; limit the bag; pro- 

 hibit the use of guns which are too destruc- 

 tive; enforce the game laws, whatever they 

 are, and if not good, have them changed. 

 F. T. Johnson, Los Angeles, Cal. 



A SAMPLE OF KENTUCKY PORK. 

 Emery Tapscott went to Marshall county last 

 Tuesday and returned Friday afternoon with over 

 300 quails, as the result of Thursday afternoon's 

 and Friday morning's hunt. — Paducah, Ky., Dem- 

 ocrat. 



I asked him about it and received this 

 reply : 



I did kill 300 birds from Thursday morn- 

 ing until Friday at 3 o'clock p. m. The 

 next morning I killed 8 geese over my 

 trained decoy in less than 2 hours. 



E. E. Tapscott, Paducah, Ky. 



This proves that you are another 



