262 THE ANGLER AND HUNTSMAN 



GOOD POINTS: 



Food from the Forest: 



"Guard against waste of wild meat" should be the slo- 

 gan of every hunter. All edible portions of the animal 

 killed should be utilized. 



Do not let wild game be an added luxury ; let it take the 

 place of your market meat. No more game than can be 

 eaten should be killed. Do not let your desire to tell a big 

 story when you reach home lead you to shoot everything in 

 sight. Good sportsmen will observe these conservation sug- 

 gestions in addition to the game laws. 



Point Duck Shooting: 



Point shooting is the favorite method of the duck gun- 

 ner. The decoys float in the water a short gunshot from the 

 blind, and the ducks flying by see the decoys and come in to 

 them. This kind of shooting is done on various waters all 

 over the country, conditions varying in different localities. 

 On the shores of some northern lakes and broad rivers the 

 blind is built of stones laid up in the form of a wall, or in 

 winter, of blocks of ice. In the marshes of the South At- 

 lantic ducking grounds, stems of cane form the blind, or 

 branches of trees or bushes are used. 



Dynamiting the Pothunter: 



The newspapers of the country have almost everywhere 

 been a powerful force in crystalizing the sentiment of the 

 protection by proper laws of fish and game as important 

 resources of the commonwealth. 



A New Jersey editor, a thorough sportsman, says Wild 

 Life, recently received from a reader who desired to take 

 a fish by questionable means a letter that contained this 

 request : 



' ' PI ease advise me how to dvnamite a stream." 



a Note: Good Points were taken from Mosby's Missouri Message. 



