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RECREATION. 



I am glad to see the stand you have 

 taken in regard to hunting with ferrets. I 

 think your sentiments are indorsed by 

 every sportsman. Poor bunny has a hard 

 enough time without being driven from 

 his refuge by a ferret, to be caught by 

 some miserable hog. I hope to see a law 

 passed that will make it a crime to have a 

 ferret in one's possession. 



J. A. Dyer, Binghamton, N. Y. 



I second the motion. — Editor. 



I can not imagine why Mr. Black should 

 fee' so bad about your pork roast. Per- 

 haps the fire scorched him a little; or per- 

 haps game and fish are so abundant in 

 Michigan that he thinks they will last his 

 time. If he were a true sportsman, he 

 would be glad to buy any publicatioa that 

 would help roast the razor backs and the 

 violators of the game laws. 



Anti Hog, Oneida, N. Y. 



I have hunted and trapped 26 years. 

 Last fall I was up the Neshnia-bo-tanz 

 river. Caught 525 muskrats, 7 coons, 42 

 minks and 2 skunks. I stood in my tent 

 door and counted 120 prairie chickens 

 within gun range, but I did not shoot. 

 Why? Well, I had plenty of coon meat 

 to eat. 



W. L. Rounds, Malvern, la. 



I believe it my duty to say something in 

 regard to the good that Recreation is 

 doing. I see the results already on the few 

 subscribers I obtained for you. I have 

 been a subscriber one year, and am sorry 

 I did not see your magazine before that 

 time. I should have liked to read every 

 number you have published. 



A. W. Laughlin, Corning, O. 



I see in a recent issue a clipping about 

 a flock of quails being killed or driven 

 away from the river bank a short distance 

 from where I live in Wyoming. Hunt 

 down and roast the hogs who chased them 

 away. Game is none too plentiful here, al- 

 though the surrounding country would be 

 a fine place for game if not overhunted. 

 W. C. Cortright, W. Pittston, Pa. 



For the benefit of C. H. N., New York, 

 page 308, October Recreation : To cure a 

 gun shy dog, keep him locked up, cut his 

 rations short, and every time you go near 

 him shoot a few caps, with light charges. 

 Then pet the dog and give him something 

 to eat. At the end of a week he will prob- 

 ably be cured of his shyness. 



John H. Wietor, Ripen, Wis. 



ity. Rabbits are not protected in this 

 State, and the poor quail pays the penalty; 

 many a rabbit hunter brings home more 

 birds than bunnies. I wish some one 

 would describe, in Recreation, the best 

 ways of trapping the fox, mink, skunk, 

 coon and muskrat. 



C. Q. T., South Bend, 111. 



I spent a week last summer on a farm 

 10 miles fiom a railroad station. As the 

 bird season had not opened, I took my .22 

 caliber rifle and hunted fox squirrels. It 

 took 6 squirrels to make a meal for the 

 family, so I would shoot that number each 

 day and spent the remainder of my time 

 taking pictures. 



Wm. Donker, Grand Rapids, Mich. 



The city of Keokuk, Iowa, had in one of 

 its parks, last March, an old buffalo bull, 

 2 buffalo cows, a 2 year old bull, and a 

 yearling bull. There were also about a 

 dozen deer in the same park. There is a 

 park in Cherokee county, Iowa, that has a 

 herd of elk, and a man at Sac City, Sac 

 county, has a herd of deer. 



Dr. J. W. Graham, Early, Iowa. 



Will some one who lives in Montann, 

 Wyoming (Big Horn mountains especial- 

 ly), Idaho or Washington please tell me 

 through Recreation or by correspondence 

 the best parts of those States for deer, elk, 

 moose, antelope, bear, wolves, coyotes, 

 lynx, wildcats, mountain lions, goats, 

 sheep and small game. 



E. R. Forrest, Washington, Pa. 



Recently one of our Justices of the 

 Peace fined a game dealer $22 and costs 

 for having quails in his possession in the 

 close season. The defense claimed the 

 birds came from Illinois, and that our law 

 contravened the interstate commerce law; 

 but the Justice took a different view of 

 the matter. 



Frank L. Littleton, Indianapolis, Ind. 



I wish the editors of all papers would 

 join the L. A. S. We have goose and duck 

 shooting here in the spring and fall, and 

 chickens, quails, cottontails and jack rab- 

 bits. The latter are so numerous they de- 

 stroy many young fruit trees. During the 

 winter they are hunted a great deal, hun- 

 dreds being killed every week. 



J. A. Carleson, Axtell, Neb. 



Quails and rabbits abound in this vicin- 



I recently returned from a journey 

 through Mexico. Arizona, New Mexico 

 and Colorado. The only thing that marred 

 the pleasure of the trip was the presence 



