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RECREATION. 



that your money is sent to the 

 proper authority and your name en- 

 rolled on the books. Give us your moral 

 and financial support and we will work 

 for the best interests of the fish and game. 

 Clarence M. Brooks, 

 Chief Warden New Hampshire Division. 



DO THE SAME IN YOUR TOWN. 

 .Two more State divisions of the League 

 have recently been organized. These are 

 North Dakota and Oklahoma. This brings 

 the total number up to 40, and we hope to 

 organize the remaining 11 States during 

 the coming winter. Will not the members 

 0$. the League in Alabama, Alaska, Arkan- 

 sas, Delaware, Georgia, Indian Territory, 

 Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North 

 Carolina and South Carolina kindly stir 

 themselves? The experience of sportsmen 

 in the 40 States already organized shows 

 what is possible. It would be just as easy 

 to enroll 25 members in each of the States 

 not yet organized as it was to get them in 

 those that have completed their quota. It 

 only remains for some earnest, energetic 

 man in any good sized town to turn out, 

 collect the dollars and send them in with 

 the names. It is entirely safe to say that 

 25 applications for League membership 

 can be had in any town of 2,000 inhabitants 

 anywhere in the United States if the right 

 man will take the work in hand and push 

 it one day. For instance, there are 

 119 members in Albert Lea, Minn., 31 in 

 Angelica, N. Y., 43 in Austin, Pa., 31 in 

 Cresco, Iowa, 40 in Davis, W. Va., 31 in 

 Dowagiac, Mich., 69 in Evansville, Ind., 

 79 in Jerome, Ariz., 26 in Kalispell, Mont., 



55 in The Dalles, Oreg., 58 in Coudersport, 

 Pa., 25 in Carbon County, Pa., 56 in Car- 

 mal, Pa., 29 in Cheshire County, N. H., 

 58 in Ft. Wayne, Ind., 29 in Glenns Ferry, 

 Idaho, 36 in Hopkinsville, Ky., 50 in 

 Bowling Green, Ky., 25 in Fontanel, Ind., 

 44 in Johnsonburg, Pa., 64 in Logansport, 

 Ind., 50 in Lake County, Ind., 30 in Min- 

 turn, Colo., 28 in Mechanicsburg, Pa., 25 

 in New Bethlehem, Pa., 64 in New Al- 

 bany, Ind., 27 in Penn Yan, N. Y., 27 in 

 Owego, N. Y., 25 in Reynoldsville, Pa., 



56 in Seattle, Wash., 34 in Terre Haute, 

 Ind., 57 in Winona, Minn., 44 in Wichita, 

 Kan., 27 in Victor, Mont., 30 in Ralston, 

 Pa., 52 in Lewiston, Mont., 50 in Mis- 

 soula, Mont., 44 in Carson, Nev., 43 in 

 Lead, S. D., 31 in Providence, R. I., 29 

 in Steubenville, Ohio, 27 in Ludington, 

 Mich., 29 in Oklahoma City, Okla., and 27 

 in Cheyenne, Wyo. Then why should there 

 not be 25 in any other live town in the 

 country? 



AN EXCELLENT PLAN. 

 The protection of our game birds from 

 the hog and the pot hunter is a question that 

 ought to be uppermost in the mift4s of all 



League wardens and members. Plans for 

 the coming campaign ought to begin to be 

 worked out. Where a member or warden 

 is alone in the field it is almost impossible 

 to get sufficient evidence to convict. I have 

 thought of a scheme, and offer it for con- 

 sideration. I have interested some farmers 

 and obtained their consent to post their 

 land, and have ordered made at my own 

 expense 100 signs forbidding hunting or 

 trespassing. Each will be signed by the 

 owner of the land on which it will be 

 placed. The land owners have promised 

 to put them up according to 

 my directions and will inform me 

 of all trespassing. In return I have 

 promised that I will prosecute any and 

 ail persons caught on the grounds with a 

 gun or in any way violating the law. We 

 know that "fools rush in where angels fear 

 to tread," but after one or 2 fools are 

 caught, others will take warning. In this 

 way we can give the birds a place to stay 

 where they will not be molested. So far I 

 have posted nearly 1,000 acres of the best 

 quail ground in this section, and the first 

 person caught on it will get the full legal 

 dose. Wm. S. Mead, 



L. A. S. Warden Ulster Co., N. Y. 



This is an excellent plan and one that 

 has been in operation for several years past 

 in many localities. The League also fur- 

 nishes cloth posters, in any numbers de- 

 sired, to any person who will agree to put 

 them up. In these posters the League of- 

 fers a reward of $10 for any person con- 

 victed of violation of the fish or game law 

 of any State, and we pay such rewards 

 nearly every week. Persons interested in 

 the preservation of game and fish, no mat- 

 ter where, are invited to send for such 

 number of these League posters as they 

 can place to advantage. — Editor. 



PASTE IT IN YOUR HAT. 



The fourth annual meeting of the L. 

 A. S. will be held in Indianapolis, Ind., on 

 the second Wednesday of February, 1902. 

 Eligible for membership therein : 



All general officers of the League. 



All chief wardens, vice wardens and 

 secretary-treasurers of divisions. 



All delegates chosen by the several divi- 

 sions, and the chairmen of all standing 

 committees. 



Members who may determine to attend 

 are requested to send notice to the. Secre- 

 tary at once, in order that a hall of suitable 

 size may be engaged and proper arrange- 

 ments made for hotel and other accommo- 

 dations. We hope to have at least 30 

 States represented in this meeting. We 

 especially invite all local wardens to be 

 present. It will greatly benefit the cause 

 to have the members from various States 



