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R EC RE A TION. 



I have just returned from a 6 months' trip 

 during which time I seldom got my mail, 

 and learned what a necessity Recreation 

 has become to me. I am an old time hunter 

 and have always tried to station myself 

 where I could create the greatest havoc with 

 the game I was after. The first time I read 

 your opinion of game hogs, I thought you 

 meant me, and I guess you did. I am a 

 complete convert, however, and if I should 

 get a copy of Recreation that contained 

 no hot shot for this kind of swine, I should 

 feel disappointed. " Go for 'em." You are 

 doing grand work and I only wish you had 

 commenced a few years sooner. 



James Hanks, Earlham, la. 



As predicted last fall, ducks have left this 

 country. It is a sad sight to see this splendid 

 marsh deserted. Not a whistle of the duck's 

 wing, not a quack from old mother mallard. 

 Last year I saw shipped from here every day 

 package after package; I have not seen a 

 single one this year. Forty miles from here 

 the market hunters have built a freezer and 

 joined. with the native hunter they will 

 soon make that district as barren of game as 

 this is. Wake up everybody, and stop the 

 sale of game. 



J. C. French, M.D., Wheaton, Minn. 



Richard Hawke, of Ishpeming, Mich., re- 

 cently killed a gray wolf, on which he was 

 paid a bounty of $17. He says it was chasing 

 a deer that was almost exhausted, and that 

 the wolf would doubtless have caught the 

 deer within a few minutes more if he had 

 not killed it. Hawke let the deer go un- 

 harmed, which speaks highly for his senti- 

 ment and his high standing as a sportsman. 



A Hamilton, Ontario, paper says that re- 

 cently James Crooker, John Jackson and 

 some more young men of Waterdown treed 

 3 coons up a dead oak, 50 or 60 feet high and 

 without a branch on it. Andrew Rumstel- 

 ler, a tree climber of much local fame, in a 

 short time dislodged the animals and at the 

 bottom of the tree a dog finished them. 



Chickens afforded good shooting here in 

 September. Jack Rabbits are plentiful all 

 the year round, but not hunted till Decem- 

 ber. Coyotes and wolves are numerous 

 where the country is hilly. Ducks and geese 

 are plentiful for a few weeks in the spring 

 while on their flight North to their breeding 

 grounds. A. E. Flint, Irene, S. D. 



I have just got back from camping. All 

 the boys who camped with me read Recrea- 

 toin and know what a game hog is. I am 

 sorry to say we fell in with several, but we 

 made it hot for them. We made them so 

 ashamed, they will not show their face in 

 public for a long while. 



E. S. Kenar, Watertown, N. Y. 



There is good deer hunting and plenty 

 of small game, turkeys, grouse f quail, and 

 rabbits within 10 miles of our country seat. 

 Our laws are good but not very well en- 

 forced. We have plenty of game hogs and 

 it pleases me to have Recreation roast 

 them. B. J. Minter, Franklin Co., Pa. 



A friend, while hunting grouse, recently 

 made a remarkable shot. He fired at a 

 wounded bird on the ground and when he 

 reached the spot found a rabbit had been 

 killed at the same time. 



Louis F. Boettger, Jr., Callicoon, N. Y. 



It is a fact that in the past a large number 

 of moose in the Lake Kippewa district have 

 died of old age. We expect the number 

 which die prematurely by the bullet to in- 

 crease annually. I think we have the moose 

 country of North America. 



J. O. B. Latour, Kippewa, Quebec. 



Feed has been good for game this year, 

 and sage hens and grouse are increasing. 

 Mountain sheep are reported quite plentiful 

 on the Teton range, between here and Jack- 

 son's Hole. 



W. L. Winegar, Elgin, Idaho. 



Will some reader of Recreation please 

 tell me where I can get some coon hunting 

 within 25 or 30 miles of Boston? 



L. B. Anthony, 94 Robinson Street, Lynn, 

 Mass. 



Will some of the readers of Recreation 

 inform me how to cure deer horns, when 

 they are in the velvet, so the horn will not 

 slip? W. H. Hackett, China Flat, Cal. 



As there are few game hogs here we have 

 plenty of squirrels, rabbits, and quail. There 

 is no magazine so good as Recreation. 

 W. H. Rauson, Sandusky, Ohio. 



There is not much here to hunt; in the 

 fall some ducks, geese, brant, snipe, quails, 

 chickens, ruffed grouse and pheasants. 



Roy Slade, Cedar Rapids, la. 



Game is scarce, although this section used 

 to be great for ducks, geese, cranes, prairie 

 chickens and quails. 



H. A. Van Epps, Farnhamville, Iowa. 



Deer and turkeys are plentiful, with an 

 occasional bear, black, brown or silver tip. 



A. W. Ivins, Colonia Juarez, Chihuahua. 

 Mexico. 



Duck shooting here was good last fall, but 

 the wild goose crop was a total failure. 



Wm. R.Welden, Whitman, Mass. 



