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RECREA TION. 



I clip the following from a local paper. 

 Is there room on the black-list for this rab- 

 bit butcher? D. M. G.. Corning, N. Y. 



Rabbits have been plentiful this season and many have 

 been killed. William 1\ Gorton, of Mossy Glen, town of 

 Corning, has killed 242 rabbits, and will probably bring the 

 number up to 300 before the season closes. What hunter 

 can equal it } 



The reporter should have asked " What 

 other hog can equal it ? " 



Hunters who have tramped over the 

 woods of this section in 3 States report that 

 game seems about extinct. — East Liver- 

 pool (Ohio) " Tribune." 



The 3 states referred to are Ohio, Penn- 

 sylvania and West Virginia. Similar wails 

 will be coming from a lot of other states 

 within 5 years if the present rate of killing 

 is not checked. 



Last winter my partner and wife, and I, 

 were in the Clear Water country, in Idaho, 

 trapping, where the snow in midwinter was 

 9 feet deep. My partner is there this win- 

 ter alone. It is a fine game country. There 

 are moose, elk, deer, bear, a few goats and 

 sheep, trout and salmon. The salmon 

 come in May and most of them go down 

 in July. 



A. H. McManus, Superior, Mont. 



I was out last fall 3 weeks and, although 

 I could have shot 20 deer, I killed but one 

 — all I could possibly use — and that one the 

 first day out. The remaining 20 days were 

 spent in and around camp, cooking and 

 eating portions of my game, and I dare say 

 I enjoyed the sport more than many who 

 shot 5 or 6 deer, just for the pleasure of 

 shooting them. 



Jas. Towne, Eveleth, Minn. 



Here is a tale of a sportsman (?) of the 

 same ilk as " bad man " Webber, of Van- 

 couver. 



A man saw a German following a poor 

 crippled quail, too badly injured to fly and 

 just able to walk slowly. 



" You are not going to shoot that poor 

 crippled bird, are you?" 



" Sure nicht; not vile he go. I vait 'till 

 he schtop." 



Quails did not mate last season in South- 

 ern California, owmg to dry weather and 

 scarcity of feed; the birds seemed to realize 

 they could not raise their broods. Every 

 bird killed this season is a loss in the breed- 

 ing stock, as there has been no increase to 

 speak of, and quails will not become abun- 

 dant for several years. 



Donald F. Irvin. Los Angeles, Cal. 



I want to protest, through Recreation, 



against the killing of female antelope and 



deer. There are game hogs in Colorado 

 who, when out of meat, prefer does to 

 bucks every time. I rjreach to all hunters 

 I meet against killing does, but the answer 

 they give me is that they are going out after 

 meat. 



W. E. Jones, Denver, Col. 



George McCloud was fined $25 and costs by J. A. Black- 

 burn, at Warren, for violating the game law. McCloud shot 

 a duck. 



Pretty expensi e duck shooting, George. 

 You could have had a week of good shoot- 

 ing for that money, in the open season. It 

 is always best to keep on the safe side of 

 the law. You will have more money and 

 more friends, if you do. — Editor. 



In January Recreation Dr. Lowrey, in 

 describing his treatment for diarrhea in the 

 dog, mentions zinci sulph. carb. Does he 

 mean sulpho-carbolate of zinc? 



G. H. Parkinson. Middletown, Conn. 



Yes: one is the Latin, the other the Eng- 

 lish name of the same drug. — Editor. 



Bob Whites plentiful and in large cov- 

 eys. Not much shot at right here. Rab- 

 bits — " Slathers 'ov 'em," a few fox squir- 

 rels, prairie chickens — not many — too wet 

 last breeding season. Saw band of 38 mal- 

 lard on the Sangamon recently — mink, 

 skunks, opossums and musk rats in unusual 

 numbers. Daniel, Le Roy, 111. 



I have in my possession a silver band 

 taken from the leg of a pigeon which was 

 killed by the electric cars which run be- 

 tween Aylmer & Hull, P. Q. The band is 

 stamped : W. P. 1898 49. 



Whose pigeon was it? 



R. C. W. Lett, Ottawa, Canada. 



While spending a summer in Minnesota 

 I shot a loon at a distance of about 200 

 yards. His left side was turned toward 

 me and the bullet — a .32 Winchester — went 

 in the left eye and out the right. He had 

 a black bass in his mouth at the time. 

 Fred von Steinwehr, Cincinnati, O. 



Game here con'sists principally of carp, 

 crows and game hogs. The carp we catch 

 in Bureau river are good eating if prop- 

 erly cooked. We can take care of them all 

 right and so with the crows. Recreation 

 aids us in getting after the game hogs. 



George O. Greene, Princeton, 111. 



We were never quite sure who the game 

 hogs of Vermont were, but we can tell them 

 now by the squeals they are making over 

 some of the amendments to our game laws. 



The fish and game commissioners, with 

 Thos, Titcomb at the head, are doing good 

 work. Anti-hog, Rutland, Vt. 



