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tims on lioi-.seback, and would shoot them at from GO 

 to 150 3'aids dif?tance. This gentleman believed that 

 birds of pi'ev, with a very few exceptions, were the 

 worst foies that poultry and game had to contend 

 against, and all large-sized Hawks and Owls fell be- 

 fore his unerring aim, wliich caused the death, during 

 the last twerty years O'f his life, of between 1,500 and 

 1,G00 Hawks, besides a large number of Owls and a 

 few Eagles. Friend Yarnall, when seventy-four years 

 of age, killed, in one winter, 72 out of 74 Hawks that 

 he shot at with liis muzzle-loading rifle that carried 

 about 100 bullets to the pound. One hundred and 

 seventy-six Hawks was the greatest number he ever 

 killed in any one jear. Rifle-shooting, however, in a 

 populous farming community, is dangerous and, if 

 practiced, too great care cannot be taken. Indeed, it 

 is the safest plan to not do it. 



WHEN SNOW COVERS THE GROUND. 



When the ground is covered with snow the grass 

 suit, of course, cannot be uped as a disguise, and if a 

 horse and sleigh is not obtainable, a dress of pure 

 white material — muslin or any other light weight 

 goods, consisting of pants, loose blouse, hat and white 

 gloves — is a disguise that will enable the hunter, with 

 reasonable caution, to approach on foot birds of prey 

 in the same manner as when attired in the grass suit. 

 The gun barrels should be covered with white mater- 

 ial, paint, chalk or muslin case. 



SHOOTING HAWKS FROM BLINDS. 



The autlior is indebted to Dr. Isaiah F. Everhart, the 

 well-known traveler and naturalist, of Scranton, Pa., 

 for an account of a uni(iue method of killing birds of 

 prey when migrating, which is adopted by farmers 



