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light" : Dig a hole 3 feet in diameter. 2 1-2 

 feet deep, and prepare enough small logs 

 and chips to fill the hole with hot embers. 

 Slice bacon as thin as possible and place 

 a layer over the bottom and around the 

 sides' of a Dutch oven about 12 inches in 

 diameter. Slice venison medium thin and 

 put in to the depth of 2 1-2 inches, salting 

 each layer. Chop a large onion and sprin- 

 kle over the top. cover with another layer 

 of bacon and one pint of water and put on 

 the lid. Fill the hole half full of hot 

 embers, place the Dutch oven in the center 

 and fill the hole rounding full of embers. 

 Cover all with about 6 inches of dirt and 

 go to bed. Next morning dig in. 



W. H. Long. YValden. Colo. 



GAME NOTES. 

 I saw in November Recreation your 

 comment on the tender of a lumber camp 

 having to take to a tree to keep away from 

 an elk. I do not know much about elk 

 in the woods., but for the next 3 months 

 I don't think you would care to go into 

 W. C. Whitney's elk pasture without hav- 

 ing a tree handy, for the old bulls are ready 

 for business every time. Whitney's place 

 is about 8 miles from my place, and the 

 last time I was there was in August I 

 took snap shots at some of the elk. There 

 are about 100 altogether. He also has 

 about 20 buffalo and 20 or more blacktail 

 deer. When I was there the buffalo and 

 deer were in the woods, it being hot 

 weather. 



W. T. Cross. Becket. Mass. 



Game protection in this State has made 

 great success recently. An association has 

 been formed in Los Angeles county, and it 

 has done some good work so far. Other - 

 associations have been formed in other 

 counties, among them Orange and San 

 Joaquin. I was much pleased to see the 

 League signs along the trails while on a 

 trip to the West Fork last summer. The 

 general attitude of the mountaineers seems 

 to be against the hog. and while they kill 

 some game out of season they rarely kill 

 a doe or a quail with young. Quails are 

 more abundant than for years before ; due 

 to the short open season for the last 2 

 years. We had but 15 open days in this 

 county last year. 



W. R. Jackson, Pasadena. Cal. 



I have just returned from a 6 weeks' 

 hunting trip, in company with Mr. Porch, 

 of this city, in the Jackson Hole country, 

 Wyoming. We hunted in the Shoshone 

 mountains, at the head waters of Grey 

 Bull, Buffalo. Pacific and Atlantic creeks, 

 Yellowstone river, at Two Ocean pass, in 



the Gros Ventre mountains, at the head of 

 Fall river, in Hoback basin, and at the 

 head waters of Gros Ventre river. We 

 had a delightful trip and a successful hunt, 

 getting bear. elk. antelope and sheep. We 

 went out with S. N. Leek and Charles Wil- 

 son, as guides, and were in the mountains 

 just 30 days. I now have a nice collection 

 of the game to be found in that section of 

 the country. 



J. aI. Murdock, Johnstown, Pa. 



We have had much rain in this locality. 

 If it keeps up a little longer the chances 

 for a good duck season are favorable. All 

 the lagoons are flooded and some cover an 

 area of a mile or more. The water is shal- 

 low and the bottom muddy. The great 

 variety of water plants which grow in 

 them afford inexhaustible food for thou- 

 sands of ducks, coots, rails, etc. For the 

 well equipped hunter this is a paradise. 

 Alligators, jutias. wild hogs and birds 

 abound. The climate is deliciously cool 

 and the scenery beautiful. Keep up the 

 fire against the biped swine until all are 

 exterminated. O. A. Fischer. 



Trinidad. Cuba. 



I wish to call the attention of readers 

 of Recreatiox to the good grouse and rab- 

 bit shooting in this locality. In no other 

 place in Sullivan county is such game 

 more plentiful. Sportsmen can get good 

 accommodations at moderate rates at ho- 

 tels or farm houses. This town is 12 

 miles from Calicoon. on the Erie, stage 

 fare 75 cents, and the same distance from 

 Monticello, X. Y. There are also numer- 

 ous lakes here well supplied with bass 

 and pickerel. In the trout season many 

 fine fish are taken from streams in this lo- 

 cality. Chas. P. MacDonakl, 



Late Capt. and Asst. Surg. V. S. V.. 



Jeffersonville, N. Y. 



If a person baits a clearing in the pine 

 brush with grain for the purpose of at- 

 tracting doves, is it sport to hide in the 

 surrounding bushes and slaughter 8 or 

 10 of the feeding birds with each barrel? 

 Is the one who does such shooting a 

 sportsman ? 



G. H. Hollingsworth, Lansdale, Pa. 



No, he is not a sportsman. He is a low 

 down game hog of the coarsest and most 

 vulgar type. How many of the readers of 

 Recreation agree with me in this? — 

 Editor. 



There is but little game here, though up 

 to 2 years ago grouse were plentiful. We 

 have a game hog. one Sherman Tunison. 

 who shoots for market. He drives 12 to 

 20 miles a day, scouring the country and 



