EDITOR'S CORNER. 



SHALL THE PRICE OF RECREATION BE 

 ADVANCED ? 



Herewith I enclose check for $2 for which 

 continue my subscription to Recreation 

 as long as the amount will pay for. Should 

 you raise the price of Recreation I shall 

 certainly continue to take it. Ten years 

 ago I saw your advertisement in a cat- 

 alogue of Henry C. Squires & Sons and I 

 sent for a sample copy of Recreation, 

 At the same time I sent for 3 other sports- 

 men's periodicals. It was the December, 

 1894, number of Recreation I received and 

 I was so well pleased with it that I sent 

 you my subscription; also for copies of 

 October and November previous, and from 

 then I have received and read every copy of 

 Recreation with great pleasure. 



I heartily endorse the work you are doing 

 and am sorry to hear of your losing the 

 ads. of some companies that I think should 

 be helping in the work of protecting game, 

 for without game there would be little use 

 for such goods. 



I have never been a hog, even before I 

 read Recreation. While a mere boy it was 

 a pleasure to me to go to the woods just to 

 watch the squirrels gather nuts, but there is 

 no game here now. All my hunts are taken 

 in Recreation and in dreams. No true 

 sportsman would object to the price of 

 Recreation being doubled or trebled. Just 

 think, for $10, how much pleasure I have 

 had the last 10 years. 



In time to come you will long be remem- 

 bered as the beginner of game protection, 

 and true lovers of the field, forest and 

 stream would be glad to erect a monument 

 to your memory, though I hope your days 

 will be long in the land that you may see 

 the results of your good work and see those 

 who are against you now become your fol- 

 lowers before the end. 



J. O. Evans, Paris, Ky. 



On the field of battle, would you desert 

 your brother, or your captain? 



Has not G. O. Shields been the leader of 

 all true sportsmen for years past? He has 

 stood for moderation in killing game; for 

 good laws ; for the preservation of game 

 and game fishes ; for non sale of game ; 

 for a bag limit and against the deadly auto- 

 matic and pump guns ; against sneak boats ; 

 against night shooting ; and all this to the 

 detriment of the business interests of Rec- 

 reation. Selfish people, who really hate to 

 leave a bird in the field or a fish in the 

 stream, have damned Shields right and left. 



By his crusade he has lost the friendship 

 of the game hogs and the advertising of 

 many of the gun and ammunition makers. 



G. O. Shields has done more for game 

 and fish protection than all the other sports- 

 men and all the game protective associations 

 combined. 



Now, all friends of this great cause 

 should rally to the front and extend a help- 

 ing hand to our leader. By all means ad- 

 vance Recreation to $2, and let us double 

 its circulation within the next year. 



Jean Allison, 

 State Game Warden, Jerome, Ariz. 



I have read in Recreation that you are 

 undecided whether to raise the subscription 

 price or not. Count me a subscriber until 

 your price exceeds my income, as no other 

 publication gives me the pleasure that I 

 derive from Recreation. Your ads are 

 more interesting than the literature in other 

 periodicals, and your attacks on game hogs 

 are above par. 



Thanks to Recreation, I bought a .303 

 Savage last fall, which has proven the su- 

 perior of any other rifle I have ever tried. 

 When writing the Savage Arms Co. I gave 

 you credit for my selection. 



I am interested in, "Can a bullet be seen 

 in flight?" Several years ago I owned a 

 .22 rifle, and on a cool, clear day, shot at a 

 hawk, perched on a top branch of a high 

 tree. Having as a background a snow 

 white cloud, I distinctly saw the bullet as 

 it passed through the air to the right of the 

 hawk. 



John F. Goode, Cadillac, Mich. 



December copy of Recreation received. 

 It is the finest specimen of sportsmen's 

 periodical it has been my good lot to see. 

 The Gun and Ammunition Department is 

 Ai ; just what it should be, every time. I 

 also read with delight the numerous re- 

 marks concerning the shot gun, repeating 

 and automatic. 



Twenty cents is a small price indeed for 

 such a treat as this last issue, or any other, 

 for that matter. After a hard day's work 

 in a close, grimy city office it is a glorious 

 refreshment to read a copy of Recreation. 

 Russell G. Pond. Winchester, Mass. 



I have just received the December issue 

 of your splendid magazine and have read 

 it with deep interest. I noticed the edito- 

 rial, "Shall the Price of Recreation be ad- 

 vanced?" wherein you ask the views of your 

 subscribers on the subject. I, for one, will 

 support Recreation regardless of any ad- 

 vance in price. Recreation is the best 

 magazine published, and I have $5 for a 

 yearly subscription any day, if need be. 

 L. W. Weismann, Shawnee, Okla. 



I see in December Recreation that for 



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