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tlie express company was backing you boys 

 in the shipment of quails in violation of 

 law, I would hit the top notch and give 

 you the biggest fine I could." 



Here is another judge who deserves a 

 seat at the right hand of the throne, and he 

 would get it if I were in charge of the 

 celestial box office. — Editor. 



Deputy Game Warden L. M. Ricker, of Cort- 

 land, while standing on the C. & N. W. track 

 East of Cortland, Sunday, May 6, saw an alleged 

 sportsman shoot at a plover and break its wing; 

 then run it down, catch it and wring its neck. As 

 it is against both the laws of decency and the 

 laws of Illinois to kill a plover when she is rear- 

 ing her babies, the so-called sport was arrested 

 and fined $15 and costs. The State game warden 

 has given strict orders to arrest any one shooting 

 song birds or birds that rear their young in Illi- 

 nois If you are caught violating the law you are 

 almost certain to be punished, and the penalties 

 are heavy — DeKalb Daily Chronicle. 



Here are a game warden who knows 

 how to deal with law breakers and an 

 editor who has some good sound ideas on 

 the subject of game protection. — Editor. 



Two miles above Lenni dam, on Chester 

 creek, stands the Glen Mills paper mill. 

 About once a year refuse acids from the 

 mill ar. emptied into the creek, each time 

 killing wagonloads of our fish. Can any- 

 thing be done to stop this slaughter? Jos. 

 Cathcart lives at West Branch, a village 

 not far from here. He owns several rab- 

 bit dogs and allows them to run at large 

 all summer. Almost every night they are 

 chasing rabbits, and undoubtedly kill many 

 young ones. The Cathcarts are the worst 

 game hogs we have here. They think 

 nothing of shooting 15 or 20 rabbits a day. 

 Justice, Wawa, Del. Co., Pa. 



Yes, the mill men can be prosecuted un- 

 der your State law. File a complaint with 

 the nearest justice, and the State's attorney 

 should prosecute the case. — Editor. 



Fox hunting was good last winter. An 

 old fox hunter told me that he and a 

 friend from Syracuse had shot 8. They have 

 2 good fox hounds. Rabbits you can start 

 out almost anywhere. I know of a farm 

 about 2 miles from this village where the 

 rabbit tracks in the yard and in the drives 

 are as thick as the sheep tracks in the 

 barnyard. Yet but few rabbits were shot. 



Fishing is good here for trout, pickerel, 

 bass and bull heads. Recreation is the 

 best sportsmen's magazine published. 

 F. T. Cunningham, 



New Woostock, N. Y. 



of them is John McCutchen, who recently 

 slaughtered 20 quails in one day. Quails 

 are so scarce here that the man who will 

 kill rao M than 10 in a day is a genuine 

 game hog. These fellows refuse to join 

 the L. A. S. Look up their pedigree and 

 see if they are not of the Webber stock. 

 L. A. S., No. 1826. 



Of course, they would refuse to join the 

 L. A .S. They belong to the A. O. of 

 G. H., whose ritual was published in 

 Recreation for August, 1898. — Editor. 



This was once a great region for geese 

 and ducks. Year after year our people 

 killed all they cared to use, and there was 

 no decrease in the supply of birds. In 

 '88 a Chicago man began advertising for 

 game in our local papers, offering as 

 much as $14 a dozen for geese and $4 a 

 pair for canvasbacks. Rabbits, also, were 

 in- demand, and I know of a party of 7 

 men who illed 500 rabbits in one day. 

 In a few years the waterfowl were de- 

 stroyed or driven away; and now you may 

 hunt all day and not get a rabbit. 



C. E. Brewer, Council Bluffs, la. 



In '62, while on my first hunting trip 

 in Minnesota, we passed on the wagon 

 road between St. Paul and Minneapolis an 

 enclosure in which 5 buffaloes were quiet- 

 ly grazing among common cattle. The 

 big fellows seemed reconciled to their fate 

 and were tame and gentle. I should like 

 to know who owned those buffaloes, how 

 he obtained them, and what finally became 

 of them. Perhaps some reader of Recrea- 

 tion residing in the vicinity of St. Paul or 

 Minneapolis can give the desired informa- 

 tion. 



H. H. Thompson, Boscobel, Wis. 



What a tale of woe goes out from all 

 over the country about the slaughter of 

 game out of season! Look at the game 

 laws of West Virginia and see that blessed 

 clause limiting the hog to 12 quails a day. 

 I have spoken to a good many farmers 

 relative to leaving a small patch of wheat 

 or clover wherever there is a quail's nest, 

 and to-day I saw that my advice is heeded. 

 A young farmer pointed to 2 patches of 

 clover he had left and said there were 

 34 eggs in the nest. Pleased was I? Well, 

 you bet. 



W. J. Moffatt, Guyandotte, W. Va. 



We have here a few shooters who should 

 be turned in with your game hogs. One 



Last fall I visited my brother, who lives 

 near Greenville, Mich., and had great 

 sport with the birds. I have hunted in Ar- 

 kansas, Missouri and Ohio and found game 

 plentiful; but nothing - to compare with 

 Northern Michigan. The first afternoon I 



