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RECKEA TION. 



AN APPEAL TO MONTANA SPORTSMEN. 



Are you a sportsman? If so, show your 

 colors by joining the League and assisting 

 in protecting the game. 



Are you a minister of the Gospel? If so, 

 join the League in its good work! Preach 

 against the wanton extermination of God's 

 creatures and the destruction of His forests. 



Are you a teacher? If so, teach the young 

 to respect the laws of their State and im- 

 press on their minds the sin of wanton de- 

 struction of birds and animals. 



Are you a farmer? If so, join the League 

 and assist in preventing the extermination 

 of insect destroying birds; help the good 

 work along by refusing absolutely to per- 

 mit any person to hunt on your land during 

 the close season. 



Are you a county official? Do you ex- 

 pect to be re-elected? If so, join the 

 League, for obvious reasons. 



Are you a pot hunter? Are you a sports- 

 man (?) who kills young ducks before they 

 are able to fly? Do you kill more deer, 

 ducks, or grouse in a season than the law 

 permits? Are you one of those creatures, 

 ton lazy to do an honest day's labor, who 

 kill deer for their hides, fish for market and 

 pull old ducks off their nests to raise a few 

 dollars for the purpose of keeping soul and 

 body together? Do you use seines or ex- 

 plosives for the purpose of catching fish? 

 Do you run a butcher shop and expose 

 trout or venison for sale? Do you run a 

 restaurant or hotel and sell fish, birds or 

 venison by the plate? If so, look out for 

 squalls! 



the game. Every sportsman, or, in fact, 

 every person who loves the beautiful gifts 

 of nature, should join in the movement and 

 help to make it a success from every point 

 of view. — J. S. E., in Savannah News. 



TO PROTECT THE GAME. 



A movement is on foot to organize a 

 division of the League of American Sports- 

 men in Georgia. Several well-known 

 sportsmen of Atlanta and Savannah have 

 started the ball rolling and have already 

 enlisted the aid of a number of representa- 

 tive sportsmen in the movement. Only 25 

 members are necessary to constitute and 

 perfect a division, and this number has 

 nearly been secured. The membership is 

 open to all sportsmen as defined by the 

 laws of the association, 15 years old and 

 upward. Ladies are also eligible to mem- 

 bership, and in many of the Northern 

 States form a large part of the organiza- 

 tion. 



When organized the division will be of 

 inestimable value to sportsmen generally, 

 and will no doubt be the means of greatly 

 increasing the game supply in the next 

 few years. 



It is the intention of the League to per- 

 fect divisions in every State in the Union, 

 and it is safe to assume that it will be but 

 a short while when Georgia will not only 

 have a well organized division, but will 

 have a game warden, as well, to look after 

 the interests of the sportsmen and protect 



SOME ADIRONDACK GUIDES. 



Old Forge, N. Y. 



Editor Recreation: I mail you a copy 

 of the proceedings of the annual meeting 

 of the Brown's Tract Guides' Association, 

 which was held January 11, 1899. 



You will note that we are not in favor 

 of hounding deer at any time. Dogs should 

 never be let loose after deer in this State 

 again. It would mean their extermination 

 in a short time. 



Several of our members have become 

 subscribers to your magazine and are in 

 full sympathy with you. We meet the 

 porkers here frequently and have a roast. 

 Make your fire hot and keep them sizzling. 

 I enclose $1 for membership in the L. A. S. 



I have been much interested in your roast 

 of C. H. Bennett, of Raquette lake. He 

 and his crowd are a bad lot. Mr. Servis R. 

 Mason, of Chicago, 111., can tell you about 

 the mountain lamb. 



If I can be of service to you in bringing 

 them to time let me know. 



A. M. Church, Secretary, 

 Brown's Tract Guides' Association. 



The report referred to in the above letter 

 is exceedingly interesting. It states that 

 the Brown's Tract Guides' Association has 

 131 members, including nearly all the guides 

 in and around the Fulton chain of lakes. 

 In addition to this there are a large number 

 of associate members. 



The Secretary reports that $126 has been 

 expended during the past year in enforcing 

 game laws, and that a balance of $114 re- 

 mains in the treasury. Men who are known 

 to have violated game or fish laws are not 

 eligible for membership. The report con- 

 tinues: 



We are under great obligations to many of the members 

 in this respect, particularly Ira H. Parsons, Ned Rail, 

 Dana Fraula, Peter Rivette, Richard Crego, Frank 

 Williams, Danforth Ainsworth, H. H. Covey, John Stell, 

 Will Commerford and others, all of whom did much 

 hard work, and work not at all times pleasant. The 

 thanks of the association are also due to T. Arthur Irvine, 

 Levi Melleur, Lowell Hamilton, and William Evans for 

 services rendered. Several associate members devoted 

 their time to the association for this purpose. The service 

 rendered consisted of raiding the country as far as possible, 

 seeking violators of the game law. and shooting without 

 ceremony all dogs found loose in the woods and in pursuit 

 of deer. Raids of this kind were made throughout the 

 country between Big Otter lake and Moose river to 

 Beaver river waters, and to all points between Shallow and 

 Eighth lakes and the Fulton chain ; also to the South 

 Branch, Beaver, Squaw, Indian, Balsam, and Horn lakes. 

 On one of these trips 2 members traveled on foot a distance 

 of 125 miles, at an expense for board, etc., of $9.26. As a 

 result of these efforts about 20 dogs were killed, mostly in 

 pursuit of deer. Two men have been arrested who have 

 settled. Four more of the same party are yet to settle, 

 and several cases are being investigated. The knowledge 

 that some one was on the lookout for people of this class 

 has had a good effect, and much less poaching has been 

 done this year than formerly. There are still ^loo many 



