THE GAME BREEDER 



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Woodmont Club from the Potomac. 



THE WOODMONT ROD AND GUN CLUB. 



By Henry P. Bridges. 



are sure to get wild 

 turkeys if you shoot 

 at the Woodmont. 

 The Woodmont is 

 probably one of the 

 oldest game clubs in 

 America. It has been 

 in existence for over 

 fifty years and has 

 entertained from time 

 to time many distin- 

 guished sportsmen, among them gen- 

 erals and admirals and no fewer than 

 four Presidents of the United States — 

 Presidents Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland 

 and Harrison. Robert L. Hill has been 

 a guide at the club for fifty years and 

 took Mr. Eugene du Pont, Dr. Sexton 

 and the writer out last fall when we se- 

 cured the game shown in the illustrations 

 in one day's shooting. Mr. Hill is a fine 

 and entertaining old character and he has 

 had the honor of protecting all of the 

 Presidents who have visited the club and 

 many other distinguished men. 



The club has about six thousand acres 

 on the Potomac river, in Washington 

 County, Maryland, and a fine club-house 

 containing twenty-four rooms. The 

 club's specialty is wild turkeys, which are 

 abundant. Without doubt it is the best 

 place in America to shoot these splendid 

 game birds. This year we will have 

 about six hundred and next year many 

 more or possibly fewer, the number de- 

 pending upon the character of the breed- 

 ing season. The birds bred in the woods 

 are for the guns and not for vermin. 

 The last named is persistently shot, trap- 

 ped and poisoned and for this reason the 

 sportsmen have plenty of game which 

 formerly was eaten by predacous ene- 

 mies. They have enough to restock the 

 fields and woods just as vermin did in 

 the days of game abundance. 



Last year the members and guests 

 killed over one hundred wild turkeys and 

 we had left over nearly four hundred 

 turkeys. The shooting for deer, turkeys 

 and small game will be better this year 



