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THE GAME BREEDER 



COYOTES SHOT FROM AIR CRAFT. 



Inaiigurating a new epoch in the hunting 

 world and showing the ever-increasing practi- 

 cability of aviation, Fred Mills, one of the best 

 amateur marksmen in California, one day last 

 week shot and killed from an aeroplane driven 

 by Glenn Martin at a speed of between sixty 

 and seventy miles an hour, and at an altitude 

 of three or four hundred feet, two coyotes 

 which had been loping along in pursuit of 

 quail, little suspecting that they themselves 

 would soon be quarries. 



This stalking of game by aeroplane, which 

 Martin declared marked the beginning of the 

 revolutionizing of hunting, was accomplished 

 in the San Fernando Valley, which was chosen 

 by the ingenious aviator and the clever marks- 

 man as a likely area to demonstrate the possi- 

 bilities in a combination of hunting and flying. 



It was at 3.45 in the afternoon that Martin 

 and Mills, in one of Martin's standard aero- 

 planes, left the aviatoi"'s Griffith Park hangar, 

 near Los Angeles, and mounted skyward, 



circled once over the aviation field in a fare- 

 well to a few friends who were interested in 

 the exploit, and then sailed away to the north, 

 while the reports of Mills' Remington auto- 

 loading rifle, fired in joyous anticipation of 

 "bringing home the bacon," mingled with the 

 whirr of the machine's motor. 



It was at 5.20, or an hour and thirty-five 

 minutes later, that the aeroplane returned to 

 the hangar, bringing a happy airman and an 

 equally happy hunter, as well as three coyotes 

 and two wildcats which Mills had shot about 

 seven miles north of Roscoe, or about twenty- 

 five miles north of their starting point. 



Two of the coyotes were shot by Mills from 

 the machine as it sped through the air at a 

 speed exceeding sixty miles an hour. The 

 other animals were killed by him on the 

 ground after Martin had made a landing in 

 order to take into the aeroplane the two Mills 

 potted while both he and they were in motion. 



