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that will gladly purchase farm products at the 

 regular market price. When the average farmer 

 has once opened his heart, he is your friend, and 

 the wise sportsman will take care not to lose him. 



To return to the field proper. A couple of 

 useful wrinkles are as follows: when the birds 

 go to brush heaps, as they often will, and the dog 

 has pointed, it may be well to appear stupid and 

 to appeal to the other fellow for advice. Some 

 men love to show their superior knowledge, and 

 your comrade may nibble at your bait, and 

 promptly illustrate the proper method of getting 

 a bird out of brush — which is by jumping on the 

 pile. He gets the bird out of the brush, but you 

 get the shot nine times out of ten. 



Have the birds gone to a long, weedy, vine- 

 tangled fence ? Tact is valuable here. The 

 windward side is the' choice position, because 

 the dog will go to leeward of the cover, and, 

 naturally, fully three-fourths of the birds will go out 

 the other side, which means that the man on that 

 side will get the cream of the shooting. You 

 will keep this point in mind and will suffer your 

 comrade to reach the fence first. Nine men out 

 of ten want to stick close to the dog, so when he 

 goes over, your friend is almost certain to follow. 

 Of course, you never tell him to go that side, — 

 that would be unsportsmanlike, — but there is a 

 way of stopping to fiddle with a leggin, or a shoe- 



