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dant grouse crop, if the pot hunters don't 

 get all the birds. We have poor game pro- 

 tection in this State. Ducks and geese are 

 beginning to come into the creeks and 

 lakes. 



Lynn Parker, Crookston, Neb. 



Mr. A. Leeds, a guide of Darby, Mont., 

 writes to a friend in the East: "I never 

 sold a head or scalp in my life, and I don't 

 think it is right to kill game just for the 

 sake of the head. We are doing all we 

 can to stop this sort of work, for if it is not 

 stopped we will soon have no game left." 



I am heartily in sympathy with your 

 work in behalf of game protection, and 

 hope to see things in better condition soon. 

 I don't hunt often, but when I do I like 

 to see a little game, whether I get any or 

 not. 



Grant Luzader, Pennsboto, W. Va. 



I have November Recreation at hand 

 and have laughed myself sick over the re- 

 ply to the Ohio man who has ferrets to 

 sell. You are right in the stand you have 

 taken. 



T. Buchanan, Milwaukee, Wis. 



I noticed in June Recreation a cut of a 

 game hog being nailed down in a coffin. If 

 you keep on with the good work I think 

 you will nail down the last one in a short 

 time. I will add a nail every chance I have. 

 Hurbert B. Sutherland, 



Worcester. Mass. 



The prospects for quail and chicken hunt- 

 ing have not been so good for years. You 

 can see as you ride through the county 

 more quail along the road than you could 

 have seen in a day's hunt 2 or 3 years ago. 

 Bert Smith, Princeton, 111. 



Can any reader of Recreation give me 

 pointers on raising pigeon squabs for mar- 

 ket? Does it pay to raise them? Would 

 appreciate information from some one who 

 has made a success of the business. 



Robert Harvy, Jr., Walton, N. Y. 



Quail and rabbits are plentiful in this lo- 

 cality. The winter was a favorable one for 

 quails, there having been little snow. 

 Ducks have been flying for several days 

 and I expect to try my luck soon. 



George J. Bicknell, Humboldt, la. 



Was up North with my partner after 

 deer last fall. I got 3 in 8 days of hard 

 hunting. Only fired 3 shots on the whole 

 trip. My rifle is a .30-40, '95 model, Win- 

 chester, and I want nothing better. 



A. F. Lehman, St. Paul, Minn. 



I have hunted curlew in Montana with 

 a Stevens rifle, shooting them on the wing. 

 If you kill one bird and lay it where others 

 can see it they will hover over it, affording 

 an almost stationary mark. 



R. C. Talmage, Sisseton Agency, S. D. 



We have plenty of deer, grouse, quails," 

 pheasants and squirrels. Elk were once 

 plentiful here, but have been hunted al- 

 most to extinction by hide hunters and 

 game hogs. 



Oral W. Miller, Agness, Ore. 



Game is abundant here. Geese are nu- 

 merous and prairie chickens are whistling 

 in every direction. Deer and moose are 

 plentiful South of the Assiniboin river. 

 A. W. Brosseau, 

 Portage La Prairie, Man. 



For many years I slaughtered game in 

 season and out, but thanks to you and 

 to that best of all sportsmen's periodicals, 

 Recreation, I now know better. 



A Reformed Game Hog, 



Minneapolis, Minn. 



I like the way you roast the game hogs. 

 Although only a boy, I was a thorough 

 hog with well developed bristles. I have 

 changed since I began to read Recrea- 

 tion. 



R. C. Trumbull, Hamilton, Mont. 



Game is not so plentiful here as it was a 



few years ago. Still, if the game laws arc 



strictly enforced, and I think they will be, 



we shall have game for a number of years. 



Jas. R. White, Kalispell, Mont. 



We have a few grouse, quails and rab- 

 bits. It is reported that deer have been 

 seen near Douglas, a tew miles from here. 

 Foxes are abundant and troublesome. 



S. F. S., Millville, Mass. 



Hunting was unusually good here last 

 fall, owing to the game laws being re- 

 spected. Ruffed grouse wintered in line 

 shape, and I see many every day. 



W. A. Beers, Petroleum Centre, Pa. 



We have ducks, geese, sage hen . 

 grouse, pheasants, jack rabbits, cottontails, 

 curlews and doves. There is also big game 

 in the mountains. 



J. T. L., Levingston, Mont. 



Keep up your crusade against the game 

 hogs. You have more sympathizers than 



