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THE GAME BREEDER 



spends a lot of time in the early spring- 

 time trying to find out what the crows 

 are talking about. He wrote a magazine 

 article on the subject and got it pub- 

 lished. I wish he worked as hard as we 

 did lately to plant a lot of sweet corn, 

 and then had gone out as we did the 

 other day and found two-thirds of those 

 beautiful green shoots of sweet corn laid 

 low and perishing with the kernel of 

 corn eaten off the roots. In my opinion 

 it wouldn't have taken any study to have 

 found out what those men were talking 

 about at that moment, and we doubt if 

 any first-class magazine would have 

 cared to publish the article. Yet they 

 tell us that crows are scavengers, and as 

 such ought to be protected. In our corn- 

 fields is every device to scare the crows, 

 even to an artistic auburn-haired scare- 

 crow. Twine was strung and white rags 

 waved in the breeze all along the line. 

 Tin cans and pails were stuck around on 

 poles. We had been told that tin would 

 scare the crows, and confidently left a 

 paper bag of seed corn with some other 

 things in an old tin boiler on the ground. 

 Next morning the paper bag was torn 

 open and not a vestige of the corn re- 

 mained. In our opinion any protection 

 given to such pests as these is a mis- 

 take, and any talk of it is worthy to be 

 listed in the same category with what 

 the crows are talking about. The only 

 thing good enough for a crow is a shot- 

 gun. — Maine Woods. 



Shooting the Movies. 



The casual visitor to a shooting gal- 

 lery displaying the sign, "Shooting the 

 Movies," would be led to think that 

 the old-time shooting gallery, with its 

 moving array of ducks and deer, had 

 been displaced by a regular moving pic- 

 ture, which gives a man a chance to 

 shoot a real picture of the wild game 

 which he shoots in the open. It is true 

 that moving pictures of wild game now 

 form the marks for the customers of a 

 shooting gallery, but few persons realize 

 the complicated electrical system needed 

 to make this sort of shooting possible. 

 A man shooting at objects in a moving 



picture would soon discover that almost 

 before he pulled the trigger some other 

 object would be in view. In order to 

 make , it possible to actually see where 

 the animal has been hit, a complicated 

 electrical system is necessary. The sys- 

 tem is under Swiss patent and the con- 

 trolling mechanism is a microphone. The 

 report of the gun is recorded by the 

 microphone, which in turn operates elec- 

 trical devices which instantly stop the 

 projecting machine, allowing the one 

 shooting to see exactly where the animal 

 is hit, and then automatically start the 

 projecting machine again. The same 

 system automatically changes the paper 

 background of the picture, covering up 

 the bullet hole, and so prepares the tar- 

 get for the next shot. 



At the beginning of the war the Brit- 

 ish Government became interested in 

 developing some device for giving rifle 

 practice to prospective soldiers. Fifty 

 thousand pounds was set aside, and 

 finally the electrical devices necessary to 

 make "shooting the movies" possible 

 were developed. Apparatus of this kind 

 is now installed on the larger battle- 

 ships, in aero stations and in training 

 stations. Moving pictures of submarines 

 and periscopes form the targets for those 

 on board ship, whereas soldiers going 

 over the top often form the target at 

 training camps. 



The present apparatus has been per- 

 fected after eighteen months of work 

 and is proving very satisfactory. Lubfin 

 & Butler have opened a shooting gallery 

 of this type on Market Street in San 

 Francisco and the same firm expects to 

 introduce this new sport in all of the 

 larger cities of the West. Needless to 

 say, this new sport develops the ability 

 to shoot quickly and accurately. — Cali- 

 fornia Fish and Game. 



Mr. Bullock of the Scarboro Beach 

 Game Farm, Scarboro, Maine, writes 

 that he has clear straight Black Duck 

 for sale at $6.0Q per pair. He also has 

 Blue Winged Teal at $5.00 per pair. 

 The Long Island Game Breeders Asso- 

 ciation has purchased some and it seems 



