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 

 i2-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 



