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RECREA TION. 



fine specimens of bull elk and grizzly bear 

 were killed on the upper Boise last fall. 

 The largest kill made, to my knowledge, 

 was 5 elk in a month's hunting by our 

 party. 



C. H. Beck, Boise, Ida. 



Sojne large game hogs grow in our part 

 of the state. Bert Fink and others of his 

 class hunt every day of the season and bring 

 in 20 to 30 birds a day. Add up these 

 scores for a season and tell me how long 

 game will last if such slaughter is not 

 stopped. Please state the number of birds 

 that can be shot in a season, for the benefit 

 of such " sportsmen " as these. Give us 

 your opinion on these people and brand 

 them deep. 



I once liked pork, but am afraid to eat 

 any now, for fear of getting hold of a piece 

 of a game hog. 



N. C. D., Little Falls, N. Y. 



As I have repeatedly stated sportsmen 

 generally agree that no man should kill 

 more than 10 grouse or ducks, or 20 quails 

 in a day. I hope we may soon have laws 

 that will compel the other fellows to stop 

 when they get enough, or send them to jail. 



Our article in reference to the iniquitous game law aroused 

 considerable interest among the farmers, and was pro- 

 nounced a truthful statement of the facts. The law bene- 

 fits no one but the professional sportsmen. It is a menace 

 to the game birds and deprives farmers and farmers' boys 

 of their constitutional rights and privileges. Before the law 

 was enacted game birds were comparatively plentiful. 

 Then the boy on the farm could go out and occasionally 

 capture a grouse or quail for a sick neighbor or friend, or 

 for the family table, and he had no fear of a heavy fine 

 with possible imprisonment. Under the present unjMst 

 law. no one may kill a game bird before October 15th, and 

 not after December 1st, but within this short period of 6 

 weeks on come the professional hunters with their guns 

 and trained dogs and invade every nook and corner of the 

 farmers' land ; and hardly a bird escapes to tell of the trag- 

 edy. The game law should be repealed, and in its stead a 

 law enacted making it a misdemeanor for any one to hunt 

 game birds with a dog. The farmers have been the vic- 

 tims of the sporting fraternity long enough. Let them arise 

 and assert their rights. 



The above was clipped from a local paper. 

 Curious point of view, is it not? Sports- 

 men must not shoot birds because the farm- 

 ers want to pot them out of season. 



Bird Dog, Hartford, Conn. 



A subscriber, at Plymouth, Conn., sends 

 me a clipping from a local paper giving a 

 story of the killing of 3 otters. It appears 

 that one Frank Colby was passing along 

 the country road when he saw the otters 

 crossing a farm. He rushed into the village 

 and called to his aid 8 other men and 4 

 dogs. These turned out to hunt down the 

 poor animals and kill them. The fur was 

 entirely worthless and the men have the 

 mere gratification — if it can be called such 

 — of having murdered 3 defenceless animals 

 in summer, when their fur was worthless, 

 and which would at some other time have 

 been valuable. Otters are so rare in New 



England that they should not be killed at 

 any time and should be protected by law 

 all the year round. Among the men who 

 are said to have been in at this disgraceful 

 slaughter are Frank Colby, John M. Lucas, 

 Horatio N. Adams, Alex. Brequet and O. 

 A. Dorman. 



In reply to yours of November 28th would 

 say you were correctly informed. We 

 killed 93 gray squirrels. November 17th. 

 There were 4 in the party, J. T. Collin, C. F. 

 Massey, T. L. Fishback and myself. We 

 left Rochester at 7.30 a.m., drove 12 miles 

 in the country and were back in town at 6 

 p.m. 



Geo. H. Cook, Rochester, Minn. 



You killed more than twice as many 

 squirrels as you should have killed and 

 should be ashamed of your record, instead 

 of boasting of it. No man should think of 

 killing more than 10 squirrels in a day, and 

 if all shooters were as greedy as you and 

 your friends, there would soon be no squir- 

 rels left anywhere to kill. In fact, that is 

 the condition now over the greater portion 

 of the United States. 



I am with you heart and soul in game 

 protection, and hope Ontario will ere long 

 prohibit the sale of all wild fowl. Not 20 

 miles from here is Long Point bay, in 

 Lake Erie, and from the beginning to the 

 end of the season market hunters follow 

 the ducks all over the bay in yachts and 

 sneak boats so long as birds can be found. 

 A sportsman who has but a few days at his 

 disposal has little encouragement to go 

 to the expense of punter and outfit, as he 

 probably would not get a dozen shots in 

 his trip. If the sale of game was pro- 

 hibited, there would always be enough 

 birds to afford sport, besides giving em- 

 ployment to numerous punters. " Stop the 

 sale of game " is the one way to protect the 

 fast disappearing wild fowl. 



A. W. Lawrie, Port Dover, Ont. 



I will send you herewith a deer charm, 

 that is one of the great medicine man's 

 herbs he carries with him on a camp hunt. 

 He calls the herb a king deer and always 

 carries it on his person. The Indians have 

 a great many things that they believe assist 

 them in the chase. 



You will see the herb has a set of tiny 

 horns, something like the horns of a deer. 

 The Indians have strong faith in this root. 

 By hard begging, only, I got an old Indian 

 to part with his charm, by telling him I 

 should send it to a great white hunter who 

 lived on the banks of the Great lake (the 

 ocean). 



Chas. Gibson, Eufala, I. T. 



I do not take your paper regular but buy 

 it at the news stand. What I wish to 



