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harm comes to the nesting birds or their 

 eggs. 



Ground enemies of game can be pre- 

 vented from taking the birds and eggs 

 by placing traps in likely, approaches to 

 the nests and old traps which have been 

 handled and sprung may be placed near 

 the nests, and these will tend to keep 

 the enemies away. When vermin is 

 closely controlled by trapping and shoot- 

 ing the nests may be safely visited by 

 keepers to see that they are safe. 



More Buffalo. 



In a note from Home's Zoological 

 Arena we are told : 



We have on hand at our headquart- 

 ers here twenty (20) pure bred Buffalo 

 Bulls from twO' (2) years to six (6) 

 years of age. These animals are the 

 finest in America and we are going to 

 sell them to make room for other stock ; 

 will sell at $150 each F. O. B., Inde- 

 pendence, Missouri, for yearlings ; 

 $175 for 2-year-olds ; $225 each for 3, 

 4, 5 and 6-year-old animals. Yes, we 

 have cows to spare, too. 



[We hope we can have some bison for 

 the annual game dinner of the Game Con- 

 servation Society next year and be able to 

 stimulate the bison breeding industry. The 

 "Where are the buffalo?" remarks of the 

 young lawyers, seeking more restrictive laws 

 to prevent quail shooting soon will be a 

 .thing of the past. — Editor.] 



have advertisements offering thousands of 

 dead 'birds for hotel and home consumption. 



—Editor.] 



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Decoy Duck That Paddles Like a Live 

 One. 



One of the most ingenious inventions 

 exhibited at the Concourse Lepine in 

 Paris this fall is a decoy duck which 

 swims automatically by paddling with 

 its feet precisely as does a live duck. 

 The feet are really a pair of feathering 

 oars governed by a motor. The motor 

 is clockwork, moving a disk, B, which, 

 through the connecting rod C, commu- 

 nicates a forward and backward motion 

 to the leg, D, which is capable of motion 

 through an angle of 180 degrees. The 

 leg Dl is moved similarly by a crank 

 on the other side. 



The foot is made of two approxi- 

 mately triangular leaves hinged to a ver- 



It Pays to Advertise. 



By Peter P. Carney. 



There was a time — and it wasn't so 

 many years ago — that some of our men 

 •of affairs considered advertising a 

 means for the getting rid of superflu- 

 ous cash. 



But not now. 



Advertising — the right kind — is essen- 

 tial in every business. One cannot hope 

 to be successful these days without it. 



Advertising can be applied to trap- 

 shooting clubs as well as to business. 

 Some gun clubs already know the bene- 

 fits to be derived from advertising, I 

 will tell you about them .so that your 

 club may take heed. 



[The game shooting clubs and the preserve 

 owners are beginning to learn that it pays to 

 advertise eggs and game. Soon we expect to 



Mechanism that makes the duck paddle, 



tical shaft which is articulated upon a 

 horizontal axis at the base of the leg D. 

 Thus the shaft carrying the feet can fold 

 under the body of the duck, its move- 

 ment being checked by the head of the 

 shaft coming in contact with the inner' 

 edge of the tube D. 



The feet moving in the direction of 

 the arrow i meet the. resistance of the 

 water, and this is translated into the 

 forward motion of the bird. In the op- 

 posite motion, the leaves or feet turn 

 freely on their hinges ; the pressure of 

 the water makes them close, so that 

 they return forward to the useful posi- 

 tion without resistance. One leg is 

 moving forward while the other is 

 moving bacl<Avard ; thus the progression 

 is steady like that of a duck. 



