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pour it in the ferrule on the wood after cementing, 



by use of a small funnel." 



The present writer prefers to rely for fixation of 



ferrules wholly upon snug fitting and cement, and 



he uses the paraffine for waterproofing the bare wood 



at the joint-ends. 



When all your ferrules are fitted, you can make 



some little wooden plugs for the open ends of the 



female ferrules, both to guard them against injury 

 and to keep out dirt and dust. Stock fer- 

 rules are not supplied with any sealing de- 

 vice, but handmade ferrules may have 

 little caps (grease-caps) that fit snugly 



Wood ferrule- within their ends, and which may be 

 slightly greased or oiled before inserting, 

 when the rod is disjointed. 



One-Piece and Spliced Rods. In the endeavor 

 wholly to obviate this rigid feature of metal fer- 

 rule connections in rod construction, some rods 

 especially veteran salmon-rods of English, Scotch, or 

 Irish manufacture, are without ferrules of any kind, 

 being made to joint up by a whipped splice; or again, 

 rods are made, even up to eleven feet long, in one 

 clear length of split-bamboo one-piece or one- 

 joint rods. You rarely see today a rod of either 

 description, and almost never in America, as any 

 slight advantage of such construction is not at all 

 commensurate either with the greatly-increased diffi- 

 culty of building and the consequent extremely high 



