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bdr, or perhaps a city sport, bag it as 

 soon as the season opens. Consequently, 

 the farmers are afield weeks before the law 

 is up. The logical thing would be to se- 

 cure the passage of laws to prohibit the 

 killing of quail at any time. 



I, in common with hundreds of my fel- 

 low townsmen, have the highest apprecia- 

 tion for your efforts. We are proud of 

 you and of the League, and consider it a 

 privilege to be a member of this great or- 

 ganization. 



Robert Haller, Cincinnati, Ohio. 



The following record of slaughter ap- 

 pears in a recent issue of the Topeka, 

 Kans., State Journal : 



"One game dealer in Great Bend, Kans., has 

 bought over 2,000 ducks from market shooters 

 each day for 4 successive days, and scarcely a 

 day has passed since the duck season began that 

 he has not bought several hundred. Besides this, 

 the buyers at Hoisington have bought similar 

 numbers. It is a low estimate that 50,000 wild 

 ducks have been killed in Barton county during 

 the past few weeks. 



"The largest number of course were obtained 

 on Cheyenne bottom, but the salt marsh South 

 of Ellinwood and the Walnut and Cow creeks 

 and the Arkansas river furnished a good per- 

 centage. One hunter on Cheyenne bottom one 

 day got 133 in 6- shots with a pump gun, and 

 with these guns several men have records of 

 over 100 ducks in 6 shots lately. One man has 

 made a record of over 500 ducks in a single day 

 on the bottom." 



Yet Bennett says the pump gun is a 

 harmless little toy and that a man can not 

 kill any more birds with it thaii he can 

 with a double barrel gun ; and Bennett 

 ought to know. — Editor. 



Woodcock and grouse shooting have 

 been good this year. The opening day 

 R. D. Gould and I. O. Converse got 10 

 birds, and S, W. Putnam and S. W. Put- 

 nam, 3rd, were equally successful. H. A. 

 Estabrook got 5 birds. Dr. C. D. Beadle 

 and Jesse Coburn 4, and George Fields, 

 E. W. Gilson, H. E. Houghton, A. A. 

 Train and F. C. Blood brought back 3 

 each. Dr. Bingham, Robert B. and M. A. 

 Cutler were also out, but did not succeed 

 in bagging any birds. 



O. D. L., Fitchburg, Mass. 



If you could find space to give illustra- 

 tions and directions for dressing various 

 kinds of game, such as deer, ducks, squir- 

 rels, etc., with a few recipes for cooking 

 them, the information would be appreciated 

 by a large number of your readers. 



Dr. James W. Hine, Albany, N. Y. 



Will not some reader of Recreation 

 please write me an article, or a series of 

 articles, on these topics? — Editor. 



Dr. F. L. Murdock, of this place, spent 

 some time last September in the woods 

 around Moosehead lake, Maine. He killed 

 2 deer and a large black bear, one of the 

 finest specimens shot in Maine in a long 

 time. The Doctor reports the bird shoot- 

 ing particularly good. He secured a num- 

 ber of ruffed grouse. 



B. B. S., Meriden, Conn. 



Sunday September 18, special game pro- 

 tector Mepham and I arrested 2 Italians, 

 with unpronounceable names, for shooting 

 robins. Justice Gould, of Scotia, fined 

 them $50 each, which they paid. That was 

 hard ; but such is the way of the trans- 

 gressor. 



J. W. Furnside, Schenectady, N. Y. 



Richard John, James John and Richard 

 John, Jr., of North Quanich, Victoria, 

 B. C, were arrested some months ago for 

 having in their possession 180 grouse, one 

 pheasant and one deer in close season. 

 Richard and James were fined $70 and 

 Richard, Jr., was fined $40. 



Mr. James M. Murdock, of this place, 

 and Dr. Moore, of Philadelphia, had a 

 successful moose hunt in New Brunswick 

 last September, securing 2 moose. The one 

 killed by Dr. Moore was among the larg- 

 est reported in New Brunswick last fall. 

 S. N. W., Johnstown, Pa. 



Sage hens are scarce. Grouse are plenti- 

 ful this year. Joe Stephens, a prospector, 

 killed a big cinnamon bear here recently, and 

 George Mast got a black one. Deer 

 are plentiful. More than 100 were killed 

 in this vicinity last season. 



E. Heberlein, Apex, Mont. 



Game is scarce in this part of the country, 

 a few ducks being about all that remain. 

 A power house has been built on Ironde- 

 quoit bay. and the smoke from that is 

 driving our water fowl away. 



A. W. Reynolds, Rochester, N. Y. 



A friend of mine says that some rela- 

 tives of his whom he was visiting in Sci- 

 tuate, R. I., saw a doe and a fawn near 

 their house. This is the first fawn I have 

 heard of in this State. 



G. W. Geer, Providence, R. I. 



C. E. Vance and Ed. L. Ives had a suc- 

 cessful hunting and fishing trip in the 

 Northwestern part of this State last Sep- 

 tember. 



B, P. F., Marengo, Iowa. 



