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of some kind ; trout and salmon are always 

 waiting for the hook or fly, and owing to 

 the mild climate, deer are in fair condition 

 all winter. In the fall pheasants and grouse 

 afford unlimited shooting. This is the win- 

 ter home of all sorts of water fowl. Can- 

 vasbacks, mallards, sprig, teal, blue bills, 

 China geese, honkers, grey geese and brant 

 come in great flocks. 



J. D. Magee, Templeton, Ore. 



ANOTHER GAME PROTECTIONIST IN CON- 

 GRESS. 



Congressman W. E. Humphrey, of Wash- 

 ington, writes thus to a constituent about 

 the bill to create a game preserve in the 

 Olympic Mountains : 



I regret to say that I have little hope of 

 its passage this session. However, I shall 

 get it through if possible. In this bill I 

 make imprisonment the only punishment. 

 This is done to catch that class of men 

 who are willing to pay a fine in order to 

 get an elk. 



I desire to call the attention of your 

 Association to another question of great 

 importance in our State. Ours is one of 

 the few states in which any great number of 

 game birds, particularly water fowl, are to 

 be found. As you know there has been re- 

 cently placed on the market a new engine 

 of destruction and extermination in the 

 shape of an automatic shot gun. Your as- 

 sociation should commence immediately a 

 fight to have our next Legislature enact a 

 law prohibiting the sale and use of these 

 guns in our State. 



As one whose greatest enjoyment is found 

 in hunting; who has carried a gun almost 

 from the time he left the cradle, and who 

 has hunted from Florida to Alaska, you 

 can count on my assistance in any fight 

 to protect our game from extermination. 



SPORT OR MEAT? 



I endorse Mr. H. S. Terrell's article en- 

 titled "Sport or Meat?" in March Recrea- 

 tion. I can't imagine a more barbarous 

 way of killing deer, than going to their 

 feeding grounds, lying in wait for them 

 and shooting them down like a beef. I 

 would as soon jack them, and that is the 

 lowest order of hunting. I am a great 

 lover of deer hunting and have killed many, 

 but have never killed one standing and have 

 no desire to do so. 



Our game law allows only 3 months in 

 which we can hunt deer, and each hunter 

 is restricted to 5 deer for the season. Since 

 the passage of this act, deer are increasing 

 rapidly, and if the law is enforced contin- 

 uously, as it now is, we will soon have 

 great hunting here. I hunt deer with 2 

 trained hounds, 2 steady horses that can be 



shot from, and a congenial friend. When 

 we have killed one deer we call it a day's 

 sport. 



You are taking a noble stand against the 

 automatic gun. I hope the manufacturers 

 will see the error of their way and not 

 put such a dastardly weapon on the market. 



Your magazine is a typical sportsmen's 

 journal and I wish you every success. 



P. D. Parker, Oak Hill, Fla. 



GAME NOTES. 



I am but 17 years old and have witnessed 

 the almost total disappearance of small 

 game from this part of Michigan, yet I re- 

 member when it was abundant. When 8 

 years old, I was fishing one day in the mill 

 race in the center of town. A large covey 

 of quail flew over me and lit on nearby 

 houses and barns. To-day the man who sees 

 a quail in the vicinity of Albion builds a 

 story on it to surprise his friends. The few 

 quails, grouse and squirrels left can be 

 saved only by forbidding all hunting for at 

 least 5 years. The sportsmen of Battle 

 Creek are buying quail to turn out, but un- 

 der present conditions the birds are not 

 likely to survive the first open season. 



Fred Davis, Albion, Mich. 



One morning before the last. open season 

 I heard fhe report of guns and hurried to 

 the scene c$ the shooting. For a while I 

 could see no one, but soon there was an- 

 other report and a quail fell not 20 feet 

 from me. I stood in silence until the hunt- 

 er emerged from the thicket to find his 

 bird.. He dodged back as soon as he saw 

 me, but not before I recognized him. I 

 had him up before Justice O'Neal the fol- 

 lowing day and he was fined $45 for 3 

 quails found in his possession. I have made 

 up my mind to prosecute every person who 

 breaks the game law in this^ section. 



Henry Marshall, Laural, Md. 



The past winter was a hard one on game. 

 From 3 to 4^2 feet of snow on the level, 

 and phenomenally low temperature all the 

 time. My dog found a woodcock on her 

 nest yesterday, but did not hurt either bird 

 or eggs. E. F. S. Jenner, Digby, N. S. 



I am a reader of your magazine and have 

 been for some years. I like the way you 

 get after the swine. 



O. L. Dillon, Memphis, Tenn. 



Your magazine is giving better satisfac- 

 tion here than any other we have, and we 

 take them all. 



Mark W. Thompson, Dover, N. H. 



