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RECREATION. 



GETS HIS MONEY'S WORTH. 



RECREATION is doing yeoman's service 

 in convincing sportsmen and the public 

 that our game and song birds, as well as 

 our game animals, need more protection 

 than they now receive. 



I don't see how Mr. Black, of Hastings, 

 Mich., can give up the magazine. If he 

 does not like roast pork he could let it 

 pass by and land on some other fellow's 

 plate. If he can not see $i worth in 

 Recreation outside of the pig pen he 

 must be stuffed with sawdust. I feel that 

 I get my money's worth from each and 

 every department of the magazine, aside 

 from the stories and illustrations. 



I often see where you rub it into the 

 users of ferrets. They are used every- 

 where in this Province. Cottontail rabbits 

 are not protected by law and are not con- 

 sidered game. Most farmers think them a 

 pest, and hunt them at all times when they 

 are of any use. 



There is a class of sportsmen whom I 

 consider worse hogs than those who kill 

 all they see. I refer to those men who 

 hire the right to shoot over a large area 

 of farm land and then put up notices and 

 keep every one else out. If they owned the 

 land, or if they stocked the place with, 

 game, I would not complain. But the gov- 

 ernment provides the game, and these 

 men, because they have a little more money 

 than the rest of us, can buy up all the 

 privileges and shut us out. 



One paper has been advising farmers to 

 sell licenses to shoot on their land, to 

 sportsmen. It says that the farmers could 

 make enough money that way to pay their 

 taxes. What kind of business would you 

 call that? It seems there are all kinds of 

 hogs in the sporting crowd. I often pick 

 up other alleged sportsmen's magazines, 

 yet never see a word in them about protect- 

 ing game; it is all kill — kill — kill. 



Harry Culver, London, Ont, Can. 



GAME HOGS THAT HUNT IN TEAMS 



A shooting match was held Friday which was severe on 

 game but great sport for the sportsmen. 



Lindon Hazen and Will Shaffer agreed to shoot more 

 game between 3 and 11 o'clock in the morning than H. H. 

 Keith and Policeman Frank Hendricks could bag in the 

 same of length of time. Keith and Hendricks went out 

 one morning and incidentally took a good shot along to 

 carry the game and perhaps kill a few. Plover, pigeons, 

 blackbirds and doves were to count in running up the 

 points. Keith, Hendricks and friends scored 470. That 

 was a good record but the next day Hazen and Shaffer 

 went out and in the same length of time scored 880. — To- 

 peka (Kans.) paper. 



Not wishing to do these brutes any in- 

 justice, I wrote Hazen thus: 



I understand you and William Shaffer re- 

 cently indulged in a shooting contest with 

 Frank Hendricks and H. H. Keith; that 

 plover, pigeons, blackbirds, and doves were 

 the game killed and counted in the match, 

 and that you jointly scored i,3/6 points. 



J Mease inform me whether this is true and 

 oblige. 



Here is Hazen's answer: 



Editor Recreation: 



We left Topeka in the morning at 6 and 

 returned at 11 o'clock. Points — Hazen and 

 Sheafer, 846; Keith and Hendricks, 436. 



L. D. Hazen. 



Don't chuckle over your dirty work. 

 You should be ashamed of it, and your 

 neighbors should form a posse and kick 

 you 4 game butchers out of town. — Edi- 

 tor. 



A VOICE FROM MAINE. 



I am heartily in sympathy with the ob- 

 jects of the League, and trust a division 

 may soon be formed in Maine. 



Early in the winter I often heard guns 

 at early dusk; doubtless ruffed grouse were 

 being shot, contrary to law. 



I was interested in the letter of Mr. Bor- 

 tree, of Chicago, in Recreation and glad 

 to see he condemns shooting on Sunday. 

 In every State Sunday should be made 

 close time, as it is here, and the law should 

 be enforced. I know the enforcement 

 would be difficult in the big woods, but it 

 could be accomplished in populated sec- 

 tions. 



The law is practically a dead letter in 

 this State, and our Commissioner Carlton 

 so admits in a letter to me, but he might 

 do much to change this. 



Sunday evening, March 26th, I saw a 

 team pass with 3 men, a hound and a pile 

 of rabbits. Next day I learned the men 

 were from Belfast, and shot 20 rabbits in 

 a swamp near this village that day. They 

 made no pretense of hiding their work. 

 The game was not even covered. 



Some of our laws concerning game, 

 passed last winter, are in the interests of 

 protection. The sale of ruffed grouse was 

 forbidden and the open season on grouse 

 and woodcock was made to begin the 

 same day. 



W. C. Baker, Searsmont, Me. 



A POSSIBILITY. 



I am glad to see Recreation is scrap- 

 ping right along, and that it is a stayer. 

 When the game hogs shall have all passed 

 away or reformed, when their bristly backs 

 and pot bellies shall no longer blot the 

 landscape, when their wheezy grunts and 

 the rattle of their blunderbusses shall be 

 no longer heard, then the sportsmen's mil- 

 lennium will have arrived, and the decent 

 sportsman will have a pretty good time of 

 it. 



He will then hie away to cool, shady 

 forests where game abounds, or to spark 7 



