FROM THE GAME FIELDS. 



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with my rifle. I take about 6 quails, 2 

 ducks and 4 grouse for my limit every 

 year when I happen to be where they are, 

 anywhere but near my camp. I never kill 

 any kind of game that comes to my spring 

 to water. I have a flock of 57 quails at 

 my spring now, and the man who would 

 shoot them would have a hard time of ft. 

 I brought the old birds from the Colorado 

 river, 70 miles, on burros, and turned 

 them loose in the mountains 4 years ago. 

 Now, there are a few at all the watering 

 places in these mountains. It has been so 

 dry here for the past 3 years that the 

 quails did not mate. This year they seem 

 to have done well. I know where there are 

 thousands of quails. They are npt shot at 

 except by the Indians and an occasional 

 prospector. I do not wish any of trn 

 game hogs to learn where these birds are. 

 Let the good work go on. Why not 

 get the gun clubs to limit themselves 

 to 10 birds each in a season for 10 years? 

 The birds would increase by that time 

 so each member could take, say, 15 in a 

 season. 



John Packer, Danby, California. 



GAME CONFISCATED. 

 I enclose a clipping taken from the Port 

 Jervis Gazette. I am a staunch supporter 

 of game protection and of Recreation. 

 John Dougherty, Jr., Rio, N. Y. 



The clipping enclosed states that Dr. 

 Joseph Kalbfus,, secretary of the Pennsyl- 

 vania State Game Commission, accompan- 

 ied by State Game Warden Joseph Berrier, 

 of Harrisburg, went to Glen Eyre, Pike 

 county, recently to investigate charges that 

 members of the Bloominggrove Park As- 

 sociation have been violating the game 

 laws. A number of English pheasants, 

 several native pheasants and some grouse 

 were discovered in the possession of N. S. 

 Smith, President of the Park Association ; 

 R E. Bretnall, of Newark, N. J.; Robert 

 Post and another son of the late Andrew 

 J. Post, of Jersey City ; and John Kusser 

 and Benjamin Kusser, of Trenton, N. J. 



President Smith assumed the responsi- 

 bility of the appearance of the men when 

 wanted to appear to answer to the charges 

 preferred, and the secretary of the State 

 Game Commission permitted them to re- 

 turn to their homes. The game was 

 shipped to the Lackawanna hospital, 

 Scranton, in conformity with the State law, 

 which provides that all game seized must 

 be sent to the hospital for the care of 

 wounded soldiers. 



Dr. Kalbfus intends to prosecute these 

 parties in the middle district of the United 

 States Court in Pennsylvania, the offenders 

 being liable under the Lacey law, 



DO NOT KILL GREYS. 

 I should like to hear from some good 

 squirrel hunters of the best method to hunt 

 these animals, especially in a country where 

 they are scarce and quite wild. I have 

 been hunting several times lately, and the 

 Jast time I tried a new plan, which proved 

 all right. I sat down and waited till I saw 

 or heard a squirrel. If I had been walk- 

 ing around I should probably have fright- 

 ened them and the chances are I should 

 not even have seen one. 



Fred C. Haist, Anita, Iowa. 



You should not kill gray squirrels or fox 

 squirrels at any time. They have become 

 so scarce and are so seriously threatened 

 with complete extermination in all farm- 

 ing districts that all sportsmen should 

 henceforth declare them pets instead of 

 game animals and do everything possible 

 to preserve them. They are among the 

 most beautiful and interesting of all the 

 small mammals of this country. The rapid 

 encroachment of civilization on the forests, 

 the rapid growth of public taste for out- 

 door sports and the thoughtlessness and 

 greed of most shooters have doomed 

 these innocent creatures. It is now the 

 duty of all nature lovers and all sym- 

 pathetic sportsmen to come to their rescue. 

 — Editor. 



CAPE COD NOTES. 

 For a number of years shore birds have 

 been decreasing in number on Cape Cod, 

 but last year they were fairly abundant. 

 Near my camp at Sandwich marshes I saw 

 a flock of about 200 golden plover, a thing 

 not seen there in 10 years or more. Cur- 

 lew were more plentiful than ever before. 

 During the years of scarcity large flocks 

 of golden plover were observed far out at 

 sea, flying southward. They avoided the 

 cape and Nantucket, probably to dodge the 

 pot hunters who haunt these parts. At 

 Nantucket dough birds used to be killed 

 in large numbers. I have hunted the best 

 grounds on the cape 10 years, yet have 

 never seen a dough bird. They were worth 

 money and were exterminated. There was 

 a large spring flight of beetlehead and yel- 

 low legs, but they did not return in equal 

 numbers. I would protect all kinds of 

 hore birds at all times for the next 5 years. 

 If all the States on the Atlantic Coast 

 would protect these birds for 5 years the 

 good old days of flights and fun would 

 surely return. I believe in uniform laws, 

 in all the Coast States at least. I would 

 prohibit Spring shooting and the sale of 

 game and have November and December 

 constitute the open season for grouse, 

 quail and woodcock. 



E. E. P., Eastham, Mass. 



