FROM THE GAME FIELDS. 



475 



I have decided to follow out your rule of 

 stopping when I get 10 ducks, which don't 

 often happen. When I get 3 in one after- 

 noon I consider myself lucky. 



This rule also applies to my fishing and 

 if all would adopt it we would have plenty 

 of game and fish for years to come. We 

 have fair bass fishing in the St. Lawrence 

 river. One bass weighing 5 pounds was 

 caught last summer. These are the large 

 mouth bass and are great fighters. We 

 have also a few ducks and geese and 2 

 swans paid us a visit last fall. Ducks are 

 now protected in the spring, which is a 

 good move. 



W. Powell, St. Lambert, Que., Can. 



Capt. Samuel Albin and R. Howell shot over 400 wild 

 ducks, on Fire Island Beach, last week. — Suffolk Co. Jour- 

 nal, Bay Shore, L. I. 



I wrote Mr. Howell to inquire if this re- 

 port were true, and he answered thus : 



The information you received, of our kill- 

 ing over 400 wild ducks, was correct. We 

 killed them in several days, just before and 

 just after the blizzard. 



R. S. Howell, Bay Shore, L. I. 



It is such slaughter as this that causes so 

 many reports of " poor shooting here." — 

 Editor. 



STOP USING FERRETS. 



The League of American Sportsmen is taking active 

 measures to prevent the destruction of game by the use 

 of ferrets. A number of instances of the use of this ani- 

 mal in the hunting of rabbits have been brought to the at- 

 tention of the League and they have, through the local 

 game warden, George B. Bliss, offered a reward of $10 to 

 any one furnishing information that will lead to the con- 

 viction of the hunters who adopt this unfair method of se- 

 curing game. — Stamford, Ct., Paper. 



I inclose clipping from local paper. We 

 are trying to have a law passed providing 

 a heavy fine for owning a ferret. We are 

 trying to interest our representatives in this 

 movement. Please write them. 



G. B. Bliss, Local Warden L. A. S., 

 Stamford, Ct. 



The enclosed clipping from the Pueblo 

 Chieftain is self-explanatory. We have no 

 open season for quail in Colorado and fre- 

 quent complaints have come to me from 

 ranchmen concerning the killing of quail 

 by Italians. As I am only a special war- 

 den and serve without pay I could not af- 

 ford to devote my time to looking after 

 them. 



Mr. Blunt came to me recently and stated 

 that they were killing quail on his ranch 

 and I informed him that if he would se- 

 cure the names and evidence I would see 

 that they were prosecuted. The costs in 

 the above case were $16 besides the fine. 

 F. D. Green, A.M., M.D. 



some private park, for there have been no 

 wild deer in these woods since '69. Several 

 bills are before our Legislature this session 

 to amend our game and fish laws. Hope 

 they'll make them good and strong. Grouse 

 and mallards are getting scarce in this 

 region. 



Give it to the game hogs! You'll gain 

 10 subscribers where you lose one by those 

 rubs. Of all low down, dirty, nasty, mean, 

 scurvy, measly brutes, the game and fish 

 hog takes the lead. They would if they 

 could, destroy the last animal, bird and fish. 

 Sangamon, Le Roy, 111. 



Hunting deer with a jack lamp is not 

 only cruel, but as far from true sport as 

 anything can be. It is wholly a one-sided 

 affair, with no chance whatever for the 

 deer to escape. In a tracking hunt there is 

 some chance of its doubling on its pur- 

 suers and thus saving its life. If more peo- 

 ple would follow the tracking system not 

 nearly so many deer's lives would be sacri- 

 ficed to satisfy the greed of the thoughtless 

 hunter. Also it would help increase the 

 deer throughout several states where they 

 are already growing scarce on account of 

 these game hogs. 



R. R. A., Cambridge, Mass. 



Although Stark county is not considered 

 a good game country quail were abundant 

 there and afforded rare sport during the 

 past season. Bags of 20 to 30 were not un- 

 common within a mile or 2 of Massillon. 

 and early in November shooting was to be 

 had almost within the city limits. Rabbits 

 are so plentiful in Stark, Carroll and Har- 

 rison counties that farmers are complain- 

 ing of the game laws, and desire the time 

 for killing rabbits extended to January 1st. 

 Six men returned from Tippecanoe the 

 day before the season closed, with 103 rab- 

 bits; a day's kill. 



W. R. Coleman, Massillon, O. 



There were 3 deer in the " Old Town " 

 woods last winter. They must be from 



Will have a good lot of quail next fall. 

 Some of the young chickens were drowned 

 in the spring of '98, but still there are more 

 than we have had for several years. Our 

 old law on quail was changed from October 

 and November to November and Decem- 

 ber. That gives the pot shooters a chance 

 to put a whole bevy in the snow. Recrea- 

 tion has done a great deal of good here, 

 and every man who reads it is so much 

 better off. Where 2 or 3 tried to enforce 

 ,the law 3 or 4 years ago, there are now as 

 many hundreds. We fined a number of law 

 breakers. It makes them good. 



Fred. A. Ward. Waterloo. la. 



The bitter cold weather of last winter 

 played havoc with quail in Southern Indi- 

 ana. Farmers report finding entire coveys 

 frozen. The law forbidding sale of quail 

 in Indiana has caused them to be more 



