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RECREATION. 



well for all readers of Recreation who 

 are interested in taxidermy to get his circu- 

 lar and price list. Mr. Shepherd is a young 

 man, but has been engaged in this work 

 for other people during the past 7 years. 

 He has lately started business himself, and 

 I am glad to be able to commend him to my 

 readers. 



published by C. W. Thompson & Co., of 

 Boston. 



Spratt's Patent, Newark, N. J., has pub- 

 lished a new edition of "The Common 

 Sense of Dog Doctoring." The book has 

 been recently revised and enlarged by add- 

 ing to it a lot of valuable information on 

 various topics of interest to dog fanciers. 

 This book sells for 25 cents, hence there is 

 no reason why every owner of a good dog 

 should not have a copy of the book at hand. 

 In writing for it please mention Recre- 

 ation 



The Ideal Mfg. Co. has issued a book 

 giving full instructions as to how to load 

 and reload 30-40 Krag and other shells 

 for high power rifles. This, like all the 

 other publications that come from the 

 Ideal people, is jammed full of detailed 

 information, and every rifleman should 

 haA^e a copy. In writing please mention 

 Recreation. 



A profusely illustrated booklet of 40 

 pages, descriptive of St. John and New 

 Brunswick, containing maps and useful in- 

 formation for the traveler has been re- 

 ceived from the Secretary of the New 

 Brunswick Tourist Association at St. John, 

 N. B. Copies will be mailed free to any 

 address on application to Mrs. R. E. Olive, 

 Secretary, St. John, N. B. Any person con- 

 templating a trip to New Brunswick should 

 be supplied with this book. 



Fred Gilbert, the champion trap shot of 

 1902 and 1903, is doing wonderful shooting 

 this year. Out of 1,000 targets shot at in 

 9 events, he broke 962, or 962-10 per cent. 

 Gilbert was shooting the old reliable 

 Parker. 



Mr. T. W. Morfrey holds the champion- 

 ship of New Jersey, won with the Parker. 



Walter Huff, shooting at 100 targets at 



Macon, Ga., broke 69 



Columbus, Ga., broke 94 



Americus, Ga., broke 96 



Such scores as these speak volumes for 

 the Parker gun. 



R. C. W. Lett, an old time contributor 

 to Recreation, and a man who has won 

 several prizes in my various photo compe- 

 titions, has written a song entitled, "I Saw 

 A Star." It has been set to music and 



At Lexington, Ky., Mr. Robt. R. Skinner 

 using a Parker gun broke 49 out of his 

 first 50 clay birds and then broke 71 out of 

 75. Mr. Skinner is loud in his praises of 

 the Parker gun, and is a shooter of con- 

 siderable ability. 



NEW PATENTS. 



Patent No. 753,189 has been issued to W. 

 C. Buckalew and J. P. Flournoy, Jr., 

 Shreveport, La., on a new device for clean- 

 ing rifles. 



Patent No. 752,809 has been issued to 

 M. E. Sutherland, Westville, Canada, on a 

 rifle rear sight. 



Patent No. 752,932 has been issued to C. 

 H. Snow, Stockton, Cal., on a magazine 

 gun. 



Patent No. 752,550 has been issued to J. 

 C. Heritage, Minneapolis, Minn., on a land- 

 ing net, which is arranged to fold up into 

 convenient shape for carrying. 



Patent No. 752.600 has been issued to 

 W. A. Sinclair, Springfield township, Kal- 

 kaska county, Mich., on a device for auto- 

 matically closing the cover of a fish basket. 



Patent No. 752,786 has been issued to A. 

 E. Leaver and W. H. Leaver, Chicago, 111., 

 on a fishing reel. 



Patent No. 745,561 has been issued to 

 Peter Bergersen, Cheyenne, Wyo., on a so- 

 called practice barrel for rifles. The de- 

 vice consists of a headless shell to be in- 

 serted in a rifle barrel and within each a 

 shorter cartridge than the regular one in- 

 tended for the rifle may be inserted. 



Patent No. 745,657 has been issued to 

 O. H. Peak, Parsons, Kans., for a single 

 trigger mechanism for double barrel guns. 



Patent No. 745,825 has been issued to 

 J. D. Guthrie, Shelbyville, Ky., for a drying 

 reel for fishing lines. 



Patent No. 745,885 has been issued to 

 O. P. Mosberg, Chicopee Falls, Mass., for 

 a single barrel breech loading shot gun 

 mechanism. 



Patent No. 746,619 has been issued to 

 Joseph P. White, Savannah, Ga., on a single 

 trigger mechanism for shot guns. 



Patent No. 747,350 has been issued to 

 Herbert B. Andrus, Dillon, Mont., on a 

 rear rifle sight. 



Patent No. 747,422 has been issued to 

 Clinton B. Helm, Rockford, 111., on a cart- 

 ridge loading machine. 



Patent No. 747,732 has been issued to A. 

 Kremer, Sacramento, Cal., on a decoy duck. 



Patent No. 746,859 has been issued to 

 Albert D. Marble, Oklahoma, Okla., on a 

 cartridge magazine, which is to be inserted 

 in the breech of a rifle. 



