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Utica, N. Y. ; James Heddon's Sons, Dowagiac, 

 Mich.; and the T. H. Chubb Rod Company, Post 

 Mills, Vt. From Abbey and Imbrie, 97 Chambers 

 Street, New York City, he has procured both Tonkin 

 and Calcutta cane. The average cost for six-foot 

 sticks was about forty cents each. 



We will add that prominent dealers in anglers' 

 supplies carry in stock split-bamboo rod-joints, glued 

 up but unmounted, unwound, and unvarnished, for 

 those who wish to repair or assemble rods, but who 

 may hesitate to undertake the more complex work 

 of actually building joints. The cost of the first- 

 quality machine-made article of this description is 

 about one dollar per joint; for handmade, from two 

 to three dollars. The writer began his rod work 

 by assembling, mounting, winding, and finishing such 

 glued-up stock. In some cases it may be advisable 

 to start in the game after this fashion, but the re- 

 sultant satisfaction is not comparable with that ex- 

 perienced by the angler who is the fond possessor of 

 a set of rods which represents his own thought and 

 handiwork from start to finish, which he knows ab- 

 solutely to be composed throughout the entire length 

 of each and every section of solid, tough fiber clear 

 to the center, and who is independent of outside as- 

 sistance in making repairs, even to the extent of con- 

 structing new joints to replace such as may have 

 suffered smash-ups. 



We regret to have to state that we have seen in 



