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print will determine which spotting color 
is to be used. 
The Photo department of -.RECREATION 
contains more real information than most 
of the photo magazines on the market. 
W. G. Howard, Council Bluffs, Ia. 

I,send you 2 prints. Will you kindly 
look at them and tell me what is the cause 
of the red spots on them? I have never 
had anything like that before. 
J. T. Nicol, Moore, Wash. 
We have carefully examined the prints 
forwarded to us from Mr. Nicol, and would 
say that the red spots on them look as 
though caused by some foreign chemical 
which has gotten on prints during manipu- 
lation, though what chemical it is impossi- 
ble to say. The only thing we can suggest, 
therefore, is that Mr. Nicol clean all trays 
with a solution of nitric acid, afterward 
rinsing with clear water, and if he has any 
chemicals, or bottles of chemicals, on 
shelves above where the toning is done, 
that he remove them, cleaning off the 
shelves thoroughly. 
Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, N. Y. 

Replying to A. G.—If the developer 
used is clear working (obtained by the ad- 
dition of a small amount of bromide of 
potassium) the development is the same as 
usual. Good results in cloud photography 
cannot be obtained without the use of an 
isochromatic or other color value plate. 
Cloud photographs on ordinary plates 
are poor. On ordinary plates with the use 
of a color screen, the results are slightly 
better. On Cramer’s slow isochromatic 
plates the effects are superb, while a com- 
bination of slow iso plate and color screen 
gives the best results. The difference be- 
tween the last 2 negatives, however, will 
be slight. 
Sv eG. San’ Brancisco;..Gat 
Would say in screply<> dow Av sGes 
question in May Recreation, this: In 
order to have clouds come out well in the 
picture, the snap should be made while the 
sun is under a light cloud. I do not un- 
derstand why this is so, but it has been 
proved in my own experience. I ask oth- 
ers to try it and report in RECREATION. 
Of course, I carry the developmeiit 
until the plate is black. 
M. E. T., Sauk Centre, Minn. 


Tell A. G., who asks how to develop for 
clouds, to develop until the clouds show up 
right. Then take the plate out of tray, and 
with a piece of cotton apply 10 per cent. 
bromide solution, holding the plate clouds 
down, so the bromide will not run on the 
rest of plate. Rinse plate and develop for 
the remainder of picture. 
Cc. B. C., The Dalles, Ore. 
RECREATION. 
John Y. Dater, editor of Ramsey’s (N. J.) Journal, 
has been expelled trom the Christian Reformed church 
of that place because he took photographs of his 
chickens on Sunday, and his wife aided and abetted 
him in doing so.— Exchange, 
Dater’s all right, but it’s tough on the 
church to have shut out the only appar- 
ently live man in it. 



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THE LAST WOODCOCK. 
E. R. WILLIS. 
A woodcock stands listening, to hear his 
last call 
From the demons who slaughter his 
kind, 
And are waiting till the calendar ushers 
the fall, 
To ease up their murderous minds. 
They wonder why “Woody” has come to 
be rare, 
Not stopping to think of the time 
When they went out and slaughtered 
some 25 pair, 
Though the birds were then on the de- 
cline. 
Rut now ’tis too late; the last hand is 
played. 
“What a pity,” they say, for ’twas fun 
To slaughter and butcher; but now 
they’re repaid, 
Yet they’re anxious to kill the last one. 

Have you a friend anywhere in the woods, 
in the mountains or on the farm, who longs 
for something to read in the long winter 
evenings, or in the long summer days? 
Send him RECREATION. It will please him a 
whole year and he will rise up and call you 
blessed. And it only costs you $1. 

