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RECREATION. 



best, but luckily I met a man who put me 

 on the right track, and I got well ac- 

 quainted with tank development and pyro. 

 I have made up the pyro developer that is 

 prescribed for the plate I use and then I 

 go about it this way : I use an ounce of 

 each of the 2 bottles in 4 ounces of water 

 to develop a dozen 4x5 plates. I fill my 

 rubber tank, which is an ordinary fixing 

 box with cover, nearly full of water, in- 

 cluding the 2 ounces of developer, stir it, 

 drop in my plates, cover, and wait 3 hours. 

 It is so easy I am ashamed to admit I use 

 it, but I have tried all the other ways for 

 experiment 'and I do not get the results I 

 do with the tank. I make all my preten- 

 tious work in carbon. It is neither difficult 

 nor expensive. I often use films and, of 

 course, prefer them for carbon work, as 

 by printing throug-h the backs I can make 

 carbons by single transfer that are not re- 

 versed. With plates I have to use the 

 double transfer process. You do not know 

 what a good print is till you have made 

 your red, sepia, green, blue, brown, black, 

 grey, etc., carbons. The process is king of 

 all. — Edmond Pond, in the Photo-Ameri- 

 can. 



MR. KIRSCHNER EXPLAINS. 

 I see in February Recreation you 

 awarded a prize to Mrs. P. B. Kirschner 

 for a photo of a buck which was wounded 

 and which, from all appearances, was 

 taken in the close season, as it has velvet 

 on its horns, and the foliage indicates that 

 it was not in open season. The buck was 

 undoubtedly killed, as it was known to 

 weigh nearly 200 pounds. Of course I do 

 not think Mrs. Kirschner shot the deer, 

 save with her camera ; but the party who 

 did shoot the deer ought to be prosecuted 

 to the full extent of the law. If that deer 

 was killed and weighed out of season, why 

 do you not find out the offending party 

 and see that he pays his fine? 



James Clemens, Nemo, S. Dak. 



On receipt of the foregoing letter I for- 

 warded it to Mrs. Kirschner, and her 

 husband replied as follows : 



As I killed the deer in question, I think 

 it my duty to reply to the attached corre- 

 spondence, thereby relieving Mrs. Kirsch- 

 ner from all responsibility. If Mr. Clem- 

 ens has never seen a deer in the velvet in 

 September, he has yet something to learn. 

 His argument that the foliage shown in 

 the photo indicates that the deer was taken 

 in the close season, will not hold. The 

 foliage shown in the photo is chiefly, if 

 not wholly, witchhopple, which does not 

 die off in June like sage brush in Dakota, 

 which Mr. Clemens probably had in mind. 



I wounded the deer near Big Otter lake. 

 New York, September 3, 1901, He got 



away from me, and as it was getting too 

 dark to follow him, I left him over night, 

 knowing he was badly hurt. The 

 next morning, together with Mrs. Kirsch- 

 ner and my brother, a guide, we took up 

 the deer's trail and soon found him lying 

 down as indicated in photo, when another 

 shot finished him. 



Any further information you may wish 

 regarding this matter will be cheerfully 

 given. 



P. B. Kirschner, Lowell, Mass. 



UNCLE TOSH AND THE CAMERA GIRL. 



Yeh see, she wuz a summer girl, an' 

 when she come down tu our place tu stay 

 a week, she brot a thing-ma-gum she 

 called a Kodax with her. 



It wuz a kind uv a box with a eyehole 

 in one end, an' a button tu press on the 

 side. 



When you pressed the button it tuk a 

 pictur. I kno' it did, fer I saw one it tuk 

 uv M'ria, milkin' th' jersey cow, an' it 

 wuz jist as nateral as life. 



That gal wuz a stunner ! She wore 

 purty cloze, an' she had th' new Florodoro 

 hold-up way uv liftin' her dress, to per- 

 fection. 



Ev'ry man in town wuld turn an' look 

 after her when she past by. 



Why, I'd stop buggin' th' pertaters any 

 day an' set up at th' corner fer an hour to 

 see her go crost the street. 



Well, I wuz goin' to tell yeh 'bout that 

 Kodax. 



She went round snappin' it at most 

 everything she see. 



She told me she liked to git Gene Ray 

 picturs ; she sed Gene Ray picturs told a 

 story. They never told me any, tho'. 



One day little Bobby fell in th' soap kit- 

 tle an' ruined his new pance. She tuk a 

 snap shot uv him an' called it "A Sunset in 

 Greece." 



One day when M'ria wuz trimmin' my 

 hare an' whiskers with the sheep shears, 

 th' gal tuk a pictur uv us an' called it 

 "Moss from an Old Mans"; an' one time 

 when she got her close fast on th' stake- 

 and-rider fense, an' I had tu go an' hep 

 her down, she remarked, "Saved from 

 over-exposure." 



Some time I'll tell yer about how she 

 tuk th' pictur uv the yearlin' calf. — West- 

 ern Camera Notes. 



SHOULD BE NEUTRAL. 

 Must sulphite of soda be exactly neutral? 

 I have some which is strongly alkaline. I 

 bring it as near neutral as I can with sul- 

 phuric acid and litmus paper. Is that 

 method correct? Does it not form a sul- 

 phate which is a powerful reducer or re- 

 strainer? 5 How should pyro be used, kept, 

 etc.? How long should a plate be in pyro 



