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RECREATION. 



can say my bag would be considered that 

 of a game hog, 4 grouse, one gray squirrel, 

 2 rabbits and a fine reynard. 



L. L. Henderson, Boston, Mass. 



Prairie chickens were plentiful this year, 

 but blue grouse and sage hens were scarce. 

 The directors of the Montana Midland Rail- 

 way have made arrangements with the Gov- 

 ernment to stock Sixteen Mile creek with 

 1.000,000 trout of the Lock Leven, Cut 

 Throat and Eastern Brook varieties. In a 

 few years this creek should be one of the 

 best in the State. Game laws fairly good 

 but not enforced. Success to the L. A. S. 

 T. O. P., Toston, Mont. 



Merriman is in the heart of the Sand Hills, 

 surrounded by lakes and creeks, and for 

 hunting would be hard to beat. In the 

 fall there is an immense quantity of geese, 

 ducks, brant, chickens, grouse, plover, jack 

 snipe and rabbits. The birds stay with us 

 until very late. If any one is wishing good 

 duck-shooting I would advise him to try 

 this country. Our game laws allow us to 

 shoot from September 1st to January 1st. 

 Reader, Merriman, Neb. 



I am another advocate of the .22 short, and 

 think that S. H. Chase has a correct idea of 

 it. I have used both in my Davenport, 

 which I received from Recreation as a 

 premium, and much prefer the short, have 

 killed grouse, bitterns, squirrels, etc., with it. 

 In fact, have killed everything I have pointed 

 it at. No larger bores are necessary in 

 this country where we have no deer or bear. 

 M. P. Edy, Clarenceville, Canada. 



I am glad to see you take up the matter 

 of the hog fisher and hunter. 



I think deer are more plenty in Upper 

 Michigan than they have been for several 

 years. At any rate, there was not a day 

 last season, that I was out, I did not see 

 from one to a half dozen deer, but I am not 

 a very hard hunter, and take things quite 

 easy when in the woods. 



Frank D. Black, Hastings, Mich. 



In Recreation you have published an ar- 

 ticle called, " On Hayden Lake," written by 

 Mr. Bales. We would like to know if you 

 approve of his shooting 3 deer in one day, 

 even if they were shot in a wild district?* 

 He could not use all that meat himself. We 

 would like to see our deer protected in B. 

 C. as well as over the line. Recreation is a 

 first-class sportsmen's magazine. 



C. E. Ford, Chillwack, B. C. 



The Ulster County Fish and Game Pro- 

 tective Association is doing an important 

 work in stocking the streams in that county 

 with brook trout and black bass. Also in 

 stocking the forests with quails, English 



* No, I do not. — Editor. 



pheasants and rabbits. This is a most com- 

 mendable undertaking and the Association 

 should have the hearty co-operation of every 

 sportsman in the Catskill regions. 



Let me raise my voice against shooting 

 squirrels too early in the season. It is a 

 shame to have the season for gray squirrels 

 commence September 1st. During Septem- 

 ber I saw several young squirrels that were 

 not fit to shoot. I also saw several females 

 killed that were still suckling their young. 

 October 25th or November 1st is the right 

 date, in my estimation. 



A. J. Durand, Moorestown, N. J. 



We had fine fall shooting. Small game, 

 quail, rabbits and squirrels are abundant 

 and seem to be increasing. Two pairs of 

 Mongolian pheasants were liberated here 

 last year. Keeping the game off the market 

 has done much for its protection. I use a 

 .25-30 Marlin for woodchucks and find it 

 a good gun and fine sport. 



B. H. Pettit, Portersville, O. 



Game is plentiful with us. We have 

 moose, deer, caribou, black bear, rabbits 

 and grouse. The latter, however, are being 

 thinned by the game hog. One man alone 

 killed over 500 in less than 3 months. Rec- 

 reation is on top of the heap, and there is 

 no reason why it won't stay there. 



L. W. Hodgkins, Costigan, Me. 



I visited the central part of Idaho, last 

 summer, and found a place where deer were 

 about as plenty as jack rabbits in Kansas. 

 There also appeared to be plenty of big 

 horn, bear, elk and moose. I hope meas- 

 ures may be taken to protect the game from 

 pot hunters and Indians. 



Dr. Bartlett. Belle Plaine, Kansas. 



Reports from Washburn, Wis., on the 

 Northwestern Line, indicate that game was 

 never so plentiful as now. Numbers of 

 deer have been seen in the vicinity of that 

 city. The increase is due to the observance 

 of the game laws, which practically pro- 

 hibit pot hunting and still allow plenty of 

 leeway for legitimate sport. The deer hunt- 

 ing season opened November 8th. 



We made a trip into the Mission range 

 last September, after goats and got 2 fine 

 ones. Could have killed 3 more had we 

 wished; but as we only wanted a pair to 

 have mounted we did not go after the 

 others. 



W. H. Wright, Spokane, Wash. 



Tell L. F. Boeltger, Jr., that I have seen 

 woodchucks treed by dogs. One day last 

 spring I was in the woods. A dog we had 

 with us ran ahead and began barking. 

 When we got to him he had a large wood- 

 chuck up in a small tree. 



C. A. S., Columbus, O. 



