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What Club is This ? 



What Club is This? 



While visiting a shooting and fishing 

 club recently, the small boy who appears 

 in the picture said he knew where there 

 was another club, and since it was a 

 bright, sunny day, but cool enough to 

 make a trip by boat enjoyable, we set 

 out through the marshy water-ways to 

 visit the club. No one was at home and 

 the boy said the club would not be 

 opened for a few weeks, when the duck 

 shooting opened. If any of our readers 

 know this club we shall be glad to hear 

 from them. Meantime we shall get a 

 list of the members, since it seems 

 proper for them to have The Game 



Breeder. 



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Poison for Crows: Effect on Poultry 

 and Game. 



The Pennsylvania Department of Ag- 

 riculture has asked experts in univer- 

 sities and colleges of the state to inform 

 the department if strychnine will kill 

 crows and not affect chickens and game 

 birds. 



A communication from Harrisburg, 

 Pa., to The World, N. Y., says: "The 

 State Live Stock Sanitary Board stirred 

 up the question by sending out a notice 



urging that crows be exterminated and 

 giving instructions as to the use of the 

 poison. 



"Some people wanted to know if 

 chickens would be harmed by it. The 

 board officials replied that they would 

 not, and told of the result of an experi- 

 ment by one man who had written to 

 the department that he had fed strych- 

 nine in corn to brown leghorn chickens 

 and that they had not minded it a bit. 



"When he threw it out for the crows 

 to eat he had to send out burial parties. 

 On the other hand, quail did not seem 

 to mind it a particle." 



Prairie Grouse Breeding in Minnesota. 



Mr. Charles F. Stewart, in the Min- 

 neapolis Sunday Tribune, reports the 

 grouse experiment at the game breeding 

 farm, Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota: 

 "But as to the prairie chickens, that's a 

 story of bad luck and misfortune. Last 

 winter state game wardens were ordered 

 to trap prairie chickens for the league. 

 The wardens trapped, but they sent in 

 only 12 hens out of some 45 birds. This 

 was not a desirable division of sexes and 

 the hawks and owls of early spring made 

 it worse by nabbing six of the twelve 



