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best handle the cases you complain of. — 

 Editor. 



I should be false to myself, my native 

 Province and its guides, than whom it has 

 no more trustworthy and reliable citizens, 

 if I failed to protest emphatically against 

 the impression Mr. W. G. Reed evidently 

 seeks to create in the October issue of 

 Recreation when he says, "Good guides are 

 as scarce in New Brunswick as good heads 

 in Maine." We have an institution here 

 called The New Brunswick Guides' Asso- 

 ciation, consisting of over 30 members, 

 mostly master guides. It matters not which 

 of these guides the sportsman may select, 

 he will be sure of square treatment, a good 

 run for his money, and competent service. 



L. I. Flower, Central Cambridge, N. B. 



Stroudsburg, January 30. — For shooting an 

 English pheasant on Sunday in Chestnut Hill 

 township, this county, Owen Sandt, of Easton, 

 paid Justice Gruver, of this town, fines and costs 

 amounting to $64,37. To add to Sandt's woe he 

 did not get the pheasant after shooting it. The 

 complainant in the case is Policeman George W. 

 Siglin, of the Pohoqualine Association of Mc- 

 Michaels. — Philadelpnia North American. 



Fellows like Sandt will find it economy 

 to expend their surplus energy in stealing 

 chickens. They will probably get off with 

 10 doys in jail, and if, at the worst, they 

 stop a load of shot, the town doctor will 

 pick 'em out and charge it to the taxpayers. 

 — Editor. 



William A. Eddy, of Bayonne, N. J., measured 

 by means of his kites the altitude of the thousands 

 of wild ducks which were flying Southward along 

 the coast. The average height of the flying ducks 

 was 1,500 feet. They passed across the crosswire 

 space of Mr. Eddy's kites in about 3 seconds. 

 This time was taken repeatedly, and 20 observa- 

 tions confirmed the speed traveled. It was found 

 that the ducks were traveling nearly 47^2 miles an 

 hour. Although the kites were up but 500 feet 

 the ducks appeared afraid of them and repeatedly 

 great flocks steered off to one side or the other 

 as they approached the point where the kites were. 

 Mr. Eddy had aloft 29-foot and 27-foot kites. — 

 Bayonne, N. J., Paper. 



C. D. H., on page 117, August Recrea- 

 tion, states : "The Canadian Indian, who 

 smokes and salts down thousands of ducks 

 for his food supply in winter, would wonder 

 why the yearly flight across the line was 

 growing less." Will C. D. H. kindly say 

 on what authority he bases his statement? 

 What section of Canada is referred to? 

 Am much interested in preservation of game 

 in Canada, and should like to look into this 

 matter. 



Canadian, Montreal, Que. 



James Horner's story in December Rec- 

 reation of his hunt near Silverton, Oregon, 

 sounds fishy. There are neither curlews nor 

 jack rabbits in that region, and the laws of 

 Oregon limit a hunter to 15 upland birds a 



day. Possibly the curlews were blackbirds 

 and the jack rabbits may have escaped 

 from some Belgian hare farm. 



W. A. Roberts, Portland, Ore. 



You are doing the greatest work for the 

 protection of game, fish, and song birds that 

 has ever been done in any land. There are 

 thousands of good people who are mighty 

 glad you came to this planet to live. Swat, 

 oh ! swat the game hogs and the fish hogs, 

 and may Providence and everybody else 

 back you in your swatting. 



A. L. Vermilya, Colombiaville, Mich. 



Near Eagleville, a little village 5 miles 

 North of here, a good sized bear with one 

 cub was seen by a woman who was picking 

 berries. Several deer have been seen East 

 of this place. Not in many years before 

 have bear and deer been known in this 

 locality. 



G. F. Spaulding, Cambridge, N. Y. 



The Westchester county, N. Y., Trap 

 Shooters' Association serves notice on the 

 public that it will do everything possible to 

 enforce the law passed by the last Legisla- 

 ture making a close season on ruffed 

 grouse in that county to and including 

 December 31, 1904. 



For having 3 quails in his possession after the 

 open season had ended, R. Ison, the East Fourth 

 street, grocer, will pay to the State about $85, 

 $75 fine and the costs of prosecution. His case 

 was heard before Squire D. R. Harrick, of West 

 Price Hill, with the above result. According to 

 the Cuvier Club's records, this is Mr. Ison's 

 fifth offence. — Cincinhati Enquirer. 



I have just returned from a trip in the 

 North Canada woods, Temiskaming, Que- 

 bec. Am prepared to answer questions re- 

 garding the region. It is a fine country for 

 all kinds of sport. 

 O, R. Leonard, 21 Reed PI., Detroit, Mich. 



Since this State prohibited the sale of 

 game comparatively little hunting has been 

 done. The increase in the number of grouse 

 and ducks is already noticeable. 



A. H. Lewellen, Schill, Neb. 



A yearly subscription to Recreation is 

 one of the most practicable and useful 

 presents you could possibly give a man or 

 a boy who is interested in nature study, 

 fishing, hunting, or amateur photography. 



All boys instinctively love the woods. 

 Recreation teaches them to love and to 

 study the birds and the animals to be 

 found there. If you wold have your son, 

 your brother, your husband, or your sweet- 

 heart interested in nature, let him read 

 Recreation. It costs only $1 a year, and 

 would make him happy 12 times a year. 



