36 THE COMPLETE WILDFOWLER 
As I have said before, everyone has his pet powder, and I 
myself have shot more with E. C. No. 3 than any other. 
My collaborator, who is a remarkably good shot, uses Messrs. 
Curtis and Harvey’s ‘‘Smokeless Diamond.” Yet there is 
another magnificent powder obtainable, and many fowlers 
swear by it—the famous ‘‘ Imperial Schultze.” 
Schultze Gunpowder, as Mr. W. W. Greener tells us, is 
manufactured from light fibrous woods, similar to those used 
for making black powder charcoal. The wood is pulped and 
then changed to nitro-lignine by treatment with nitric and: 
sulphuric acids. The compound is then carefully cleansed and 
purified, all deleterious chemical properties and acids being 
eliminated. The powder then undergoes hydraulic pressure, 
the cakes are broken up and the powder granulated in re- 
volving drums. It finally has to be dried by steam, water- 
proofed and hardened, exposed to the air, and stored for some 
time in open cylinders before it is ready for use. 
Imperial Schultze, which is a further improvement upon 
the still excellent ordinary Schultze, is a 33-grain powder for 
12-bore charges, and has a peculiar attribute of giving effec- 
tive results with small-shot charges. 
Below is the Company’s own table of loads. 
ORDINARY SCHULTZE 
Bore. Drams. Grains. Shot. 
For a 20 - 24 or 31 - and 7% oz. 
” 16 7 23 ” 36 = ” +é ” 
” 14 sy 23 » 39 F ” I ” 
a 12 - 7 $y ae - Ty Ly Or Ee 
IMPERIAL SCHULTZE 
Bore. Drams. Grains. Shot. 
For a 20 - 24 or 25 - and # oz. 
” 16 ? 28 ” 28 = ” g ” 
” 14 3 25 391. NOE i ” Te» 
ag 12 - eA + - »» Ori ze Oz. 
