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follow his quarry over on his neigh- 

 bor's territory. 



I repeat that the present shooting 

 license gives no privilege that a gun- 

 ner did not have before. It will not 

 excuse trespass of any kind. Omly 

 Saturday last, although he had been 

 warned, an alien Quinebaug factory 

 hand persisted in shooting gray squir- 

 rels in a dooryard. In two instances 

 near us small groves mear houses, 

 wihich have hitherto been held im- 

 mune and protected by common con- 

 sent, have so early this season been 

 completely cleaned out of gray squir- 

 rels. Several times lately, when the 

 graytails were roaming the fields for 

 nuts and sweet apples. I saw gunners 

 sitting in the public road waiting for 

 this small game to come and feed. I 

 lost control of my horse by a sudden 

 shot from one of these men. A village 

 farmer had a partly tame gray squir- 

 rel living in his unused old gristmill, 

 and ome of these sidewalk gunners de- 

 liberately came and shot it. A little 

 too promiscuous and too short range, 

 my friends. 



On Long Island the season for quail, 

 grouse, rabbits and squirrels does not 

 open till November 1. As I write on 

 the loth of October, dense foliage still 

 fills the local woods and swamps. On 

 proepr presentation of these facts, it 

 would seem as if the legislature would 

 proclaim close game season till Octo- 

 ber 15, and the act would surely be 

 approved by all true sportsmen 

 throughout the state. 



C. L. R. 



How to Make an Automatic Egg 

 Blower for 50 Cents. 



Every one who does much oological 

 collecting should have an automatic 

 egg blower and take blowing easy, in- 

 stead of using up all his breath with 



one set of eggs. The first thing to do 

 is to secure the following materials; 



A small block of wood will not cost 

 anything. 



One rubber syringe bulb $ -5 



Two feet of glass tube 10 



One-half foot of rubber tube 

 large enough to fit the brass 



and glass tube .5 



Small piece of brass tube 10 



Total $ .50 



All these things can be purchased 

 at a drug store except the brass tube, 

 which can be purchased at a hard- 

 ware store. Take the block of wood 

 and bore a small hole in it. Then get 

 a square piece of wood %x% inches 

 square, and 3 or 4 inches high, bore 

 a hole through it large enough to In- 

 sert the brass tube, then whittle the 

 other end small enough to stick it in 

 the hole in the block of wood. 

 Attach the bulb to one end of the tube 

 and a piece of the rubber tube an inch 

 long on the other. 



Then take a foot of the glass tube 

 and heat the middel of it red hot in 

 the gas jet, (this will Oiuly take a min- 

 ute) ; then pull on each end of the 

 tube; it will pull out thinner and thin- 

 ner as long as you pull. When it is 

 as thin as you want it take it out 

 and break it in the middle, 

 then hold the thin part where you 

 want to bend it up, in the edge of the 

 gas until it bends down by its own 

 weight. Then take it out and 

 fit the large end in the little piece of 

 rubber tube. By this method 

 you can make your blowers much 

 finer than you can buy them, and you 

 can keep the hole in your eggs very 

 small. Then the machine is complete. 

 Be sure to get the air through the 

 end. If you do not have it 

 this way it will not work, because it 

 cannot take air through the small 

 blow pipe, which is in the egg. I hope 

 this will save many collectors some 

 money ,and also their breath. 

 P. G. HOWES, 



Stamford, Conn. 



