FROM THE GAME FIELDS. 49 
ehickens to sheep is new. Sheep are a 
curse to any big game country, and no 
doubt they do destroy many nests of birds; 
but it is due to such persistent and disrep- 
utable pot hunters as the Schoonemakers 
that the sage grouse, and all other game 
birds everywhere in the country, are grad- 
ually being exterminated. August Schoone- 
maker is game hog No. 923 and Charles 
is 924.—EDITOR. 
If your magazine was read more gener- 
ally in this State, there would be fewer 
side hunts, and you would have fewer pic- 
tures to print of the work of game hogs. 
You are doing a grand work and I hope 
you will keep on until the people have 
learned what constitutes a sportsman and 
discovered that there are nobler things in 
nature than can be found between brick 
walls in the everlasting fight for wealth. 
G. H. Priest, Waltham, Mass. 
ANSWER. 
RECREATION is very generally read by the 
decent sportsmen in your State, as well as 
in all the others; but, unfortunately, there 
are thousands of game butchers every- 
where who do not read it. These are the 
chaps I am trying to reach, and if sports- 
men will send me the names and addresses 
of any such I will gladly send them sample 
copies.—EDITOR. 

735,290. Snow Shoe. Chandley E. Phelps, 
Boonville, N. Y. Filed Feb. -7, 1903. 
Serial No. 142,267. 

Claims —The combination of the bow 
frame, the cross bars and the hanger 4 hav- 
ing a wall extending down on the inside 
of the face of the bow and a socket therein 
to receive the end of the cross bars and 
having means for securing it to the top of 
the bow. 

The principal game hunted here by the 
true sportsmen is ducks and quails, and if 
we could read more about this kind of 
hunting in your journal, I believe it would 
interest many more in Ohio; but of course 
you have many readers to please, each of 
whom has likes and dislikes different from 
those of the others. I am glad to see the 
rapid advance our American people are 
making in their idea of recreation in the 
field. Doctors advise people in all walks of 
life to take vacations. If one has his busi- 
ness on his mind 50 weeks in the year, he is 
entitled to 2 weeks for recreation. He will 
live longer by taking them, feel happier, be 
of better service, and lose nothing but what 
ought to be lost. 
Geo. M. Clouse, M.D., Golumbus, Obio. 

730,528. Animal Trap. Alanson D. Gas- 
ton, Washington, D. C. Filed Oct. 22, 
1902. Serial No. 128,361. 




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Claim.—An animal trap comprising a 
base member and a spring actuated bail 
member, a trigger, and a latch, and a trip- 
board pivotally secured to the base mem- 
ber and overhanging the end of the trigger 
member. 

Fergus Falls, Minn.—A young man named 
Paul Meyer was brought into the justice court 
in this city on complaint of Deputy Game War- 
den Jones, who charged him with shooting a 
grouse out of season in the town of Edna. He 
pleaded not guilty and was convicted after a stub- 
bornly fought trial. The costs in the case were 
$58.82, and the court fined him $10, making a 
total of $68.82. 
The above, from the St. Paul Dispatch, 
goes to show that all high priced hunting 
is not confined to big game. If we had 
more wardens like Mr. Jones we would 
have more game. 
M. E. Daniels, Monticello, Minn. 
_ Paul’s number in the game hog register 
is 925.—EDITOR. 

The game in this section is all shot off 
by fellows who find a covey of birds and 
follow them day after day till they are all 
gone. I promise you to do all I can in this 
matter, and always what | can toward pro- 
tection of game everywhere. 
W. S. Shaw, Blacksburg, Va. 
RECREATION will find a place in our home 
as long as we have one, and I tender you 
my thanks for the advocacy of the prin- 
ciples you are putting to the front—game 
protection and nature study. May there be 
much more of them in the world before it 
is too late. You have the heartiest well 
wishes of the vast army of sportsmen and 
nature lovers of this country. 
James A. Lawrie, Toledo, Ohio. 

A little girl thus described a dachshund 
she had-seen: “It was one of those funny 
ones, you know; the ones that are a dog 
and a half long and half a dog high. You 
must know the sort. It is a dog that only 
has 4 legs, but looks as if it ought to have 
6.”—The Inglenook, 
