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K'/lCREATION. 



quicker in her movements. Each hen usual- 

 !\ raises about 18 chicks at a time, and sets 

 3 t mic.s each spring, so, of course, the in- 

 crease is rapid. 



Pheasants are clean birds, eating only 

 grain and grass seeds. Their meat is white 

 and has a most excellent flavor. We be- 

 lieve our pheasant shooting to be the finest 

 sport in this line in the world, and on ac- 

 count of our laws becoming better each 

 year the sport will continue good. We 

 have also such game as grouse, quails, 

 ducks, geese, swan, deer, elk, etc., and it 

 would be hard to find another State with 

 such a variety of game as Oregon has. 

 When you Easterners come to Oregon, it 

 any of you ever do, bring your guns and 

 fly rods and we assure you of some of the 

 greatest sport in the world. 



Sport, Portland, Oregon. 



BOYS SHOULD JOIN THE L. A. S. 



Louisville, Ky. 

 Editor Recreation: 



I see in your July number an article on 

 small boys and cheap rifles which struck 

 me so forcibly that I decided to write you 

 in regard to the way song and other birds 

 fall victims to the deadly cheap rifle. I am 

 a great lover of the woods, and often ride 

 out of town after work hours to enjoy 

 them. Almost every time I go out I meet 

 boys going come with their pockets filled 

 with birds they have killed. This has been 

 going on until there is hardly a song bird 

 left anywhere around Louisville. I wish 

 you would publish an open letter to the 

 boys about this useless slaughter, and per- 

 haps it would do some good in this lo- 

 cality. The game laws are not enforced 

 here, so the offenders are unpunished. 



R. L. L. 



ANSWER. 



The state of affairs you describe is truly 

 deplorable, and it is one which Recrea- 

 tion and the League have been working 

 diligently to reach. We have been suc- 

 cessful in thousands of cases, yet it seems 

 we have not reached the young heathens 

 in your vicinity. If you can get the names 

 and addresses of any or all the boys who 

 are slaughtering song birds and send them 

 to me I will go after them in a way that 

 will be mighty apt to stop them in their 

 nefarious work. 



The game laws of your State prohibit 

 the killing of meadow larks, thrushes, 

 martins, finches, swallows, flickers, red 

 birds, orioles, woodpeckers, tanagers, cat- 

 birds or other song or insectivorous birds 

 at any time of the year. It is therefore 

 your duty as well as that of every other 

 good citizen who detects anyone in the 

 act of killing or having in possession any 

 such bird at any time to swear out a war- 



rant for his arrest and to see that he is 

 prosecuted. Doubtless you would not 

 wish to make a business of this, but if you 

 will prosecute a few cases the other boys 

 will stop. 



You should join the L. A. S. and induce 

 all your friends to do so. You should ap- 

 ply to this office for a number of copies of 

 the muslin poster which we supply free of 

 charge, and which announces that the 

 League desires to prosecute all persons 

 who violate game or fish laws in any 

 State. You should post these everywhere 

 about your city and vicinity so that of- 

 fenders may know we are looking for 

 them. Will you not act promptly in these 

 matters ? — Editor. 



DUNHAM IO GRIZZLY PETE. 



Don't you know, Grizzly Pete, that a half 

 truth is a whole lie? You may be an ex- 

 game hog, but there are still flaws in your 

 morality. You want to line up with that 

 commandment against bearing false wit- 

 ness. It is true I was at Henry's lake 

 in '83-'84. At that time there was no 

 coyote in that region calling himself 

 Grizzly Pete. If you were there under an- 

 other name you will remember that in 

 December of that winter 5,000 elk passed 

 the lake, going toward the Madison range. 

 They were within sight of the house 3 

 days, and in all that time I did not take 

 my gun off the rack. Then there came a 

 heavy fall of snow, 2^2 feet of fresh snow 

 on 2 feet of old, and when the storm was 

 over there was not an elk in sight. Then, 

 according to Pete's story, Old Dunham 

 took his .50 caliber Sharps, and slaugh- 

 tered 17 elk calves by firing 150 shots at 

 them. I was no antique in '84, being then 

 31 years old, and I never owned a .50 

 Sharps in my life. I did help kill the 

 calves. Deney McDonald and I found 

 them in a draw. They were in 4^ feet of 

 snow, could not possibly get out and would 

 certainly have starved. I fired 11 shots at 

 them, and Deney, 9. I leave it to the 

 Roaster Man if it was not more humane to 

 kill the calves than to let them starve. Not 

 a pound of the meat was wasted, and every^ 

 one at the lake had a share. 



Then, Pete, why did you not give the 

 facts about the fish? If you know anything 

 about it, you know Henry's lake does not 

 average 2 feet in depth, and that fish re- 

 maining in it through the winter are froz- 

 en; as proved by the many thousand dead 

 fish that wash ashore each spring. The 

 fish might as well be caught and eaten as 

 left to freeze. Still, I did not catch them 

 all. Read, on page 310 of October 

 Recreation, about the man willing to 

 pay $2,000 for the right to net trout in 

 Henry's lake. Where do the fish come 

 from, if the lake freezes solid every win- 



