
FROM THE GAME FIELDS. 
silvertip charged. Two .303 bullets stopped 
her about 40 yards from me. She weighed 
probably 750 pounds and was a beautiful 
specimen. 
Luck deserted us until Monday, when 
King killed a black bear, making a bear 
apiece for the party. Tuesday Tiedens and 
I came in, leaving Dick and King in the 
mountains. They remained a week longer, 
moving camp to a better deer country. 
Later in the month I spent a day with my 
friends Miller and Benze, hunting near 
Marion, 25 miles West of Kalispell. 
Of 
4 deer jumped during the day we secured 3. 
H. E. Houston, M. D., Kalispell, Mont. 

A BOAR HUNT. 
Three years ago last winter my 3 part- 
ners’ and I started, with 2 pack horses and 
a camp outfit, for a hog hunt in the foot- 
hills of the Sierra Nevada mountains. That 
may seem odd to those accustomed only to 
Secing pigs in clover or in a pen, but those 
- who have -hunted wild hogs know it is a 
mighty strenuous sport. 
Learning that there was a bunch of hogs 
in a deep gulch near our camp we set out 
_ early to follow them. Wild hogs will move 
along while rooting about as fast as a man 
can travel on foot, and after finding sign it 
is always necessary to track them. Two of 
my companions went along one side of the 
gulch, and I the other. The fourth man 
made a detour, intending to strike the gulch 
4 miles farther on. 
Coming noiselessly to the top of a little 
break, I was offered the choice of 2 as fine 
shots as I could desire. Sixty yards up the 
hill stood a 5 point buck, while 200 yards 
_ down the hill a bunch of hogs was feeding. 
I was after hogs that trip, so I fired at 
the biggest, aiming at the sticking place. I 
shot too low, however, and the bullet, a 
‘30-30, broke his right fore leg, and ranging 
back, split the toes of a hind foot. 
Hearing the shot my friends across the 
gulch came over, bringing 2 bulldogs trained 
to track and hold anything alive. We set 
the dogs on, and the boar, after running a 
mile, took refuge in a thicket so dense we 
could not enter it save on hands and knees. 
With his rump to a rock the boar fought 
off the dogs, killing one before we came up. 
He charged the first man who entered the 
_ thicket, but. was stopped before he could do 
- any damage. 
A crippled grizzly is a tough 
- “proposition, but a wounded boar is worse, 

for he will fight to his last gasp. 
S. V. Stevens, Lyonsville, Cal. 

HOW IT LOOKS IN PENNSYLVANIA. 
We had extremely cold weather last win- 
ter, the thermometer twice falling to 26 
degrees below zero, and I am afraid the 
birds suffered greatly. Quails were plenti- 
429 
ful last fall as the result of being protected, 
and in the early part of the winter I saw 
a number of large coveys. Several farm- 
ers told me there were birds on their farms 
and promised to feed them during the win- 
ter. I had articles put in the papers, ask- 
ing farmers to feed the quails, suggesting 
that they take the grain in the sheaf and 
hang it in low bushes and trees where the 
birds can easily get it. If thrown on the 
ground it will either be lost in the snow or 
blown away. There is a law in this State 
allowing quail to be trapped and kept dur- 
ing the winter and liberated on February 
18. Some farmers do this, but most simply 
feed the quail, which become tame and 
stay around the premises all winter. I 
discovered that a number of wild turkeys 
had escaped the hunters in a section where 
these birds had become plentiful. I imme- 
diately made arrangements to have the 
place thoroughly patrolled and made many 
trips myself along that part of the mountain, 
with the result that the turkeys were not 
molested. There are several hunters living 
in that region who would have killed them 
if given a chance. One man said to a 
friend that he was afraid to stick his nose 
out of the door with a gun in his hand. 
Harry P. Hays, Hollidaysburg, Pa. 

The game law of New York should be 
amended to prevent the slaughter of deer 
in September. Nine-tenths of the deer 
killed in that month are gotten by floating, 
and 3% of them are does and fawns. Some 
sportsmen would prefer to shorten the sea- 
son by cutting out the last 2 weeks. That 
would not materially reduce the slaughter, 
as but few deer are killed by still hunting 
in November. 
T. J. Fenton, Jamestown, N. Y. 

We have a few rabbits, squirrels and 
grouse. A little farther North are deer; 
few were killed last season, though the 
woods were full of hunters. 
F. Goodfruit, Ada, Mich. 

Most game is scarce here, but a few quails, 
rabbits and ruffed grouse can be had. 
Raymond Hagar, Traverse City, Mich. 
Mrs. Collier Down—How did it happen 
that when we came home from the theatre 
last night I saw you let a policeman out 
of the basement door? 
Mary Ann—Oi don’t know, mum, unless 
th’ play was shorter than usual, mum. 

Join the L. A. S. and help protect the 
game. , 
