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HERMAN 
senyiciSHOE 
No Road Too Long— No Path Too Rough 
for HERMAN’S No. 65 contains a comfort that makes hiking a 
delight. 
Mile after mile — how they wear! Up hill, down hill — surely 
the shoe for the “open road’’l 
Orthopedically designed for foot-free comfort. The result of 
30 years’ practical experience “smoothing the way” for the 
walker. 
Made of High- 
Grade Tan Leather 
on the favorite 
Munson Last. With 
soles that will give 
real service. 
Spec ify HER- 
MAN’S No. 65 by 
name at your shoe 
dealer’s! Or order 
direct from us. (Dept. 
K.) $6.25 postpaid. 
JOSEPH M. HERMAN SHOE CO. 
MILLIS, 
Established 
1820 
MASS. 
This Is Our 
102nd Year 
A NEW IDEA REEL 
The Sincerity Reel, Open 
Note the Hinge 
The easiest reel to keep in good working order. You 
simply press a sliding button and the handle-plate swings 
on a hinge, opening the heart of the Sincerity for cleaning 
and oiling. No tools whatever. No danger of losing parts. 
The Sincerity is opened in a moment, oiled in a moment, 
and closed again in another moment without any part of 
the reel being out of your hand. Quadruple multiplying. 
Holds 80 yards. Well made, strong and 
serviceable. Reiails at 
Ask your dealer for Abbey & Imbrie 
quality tackle. Catalog — a Fishing Hand- 
book — on receipt of 10 cents. 
ABBEY & IMBRIE 
Divi!iion of Faker, Murray & Imbrie 
97 CHAMBERS STREET NEW YORK 
CHIMMYETte 
^ _^JELyroi 
)WIGGLER 
)50l 
No. 7 ~3 Hook^With or WithouAj 
No. 8-6 Hook\^Fly Spinner Porky^ 
Send for Circular •AL.FOSS* 
_p\Z COLUMBUS RD. CLEVELAND 
JOE WELSH 
LEADERS 
The genuine Telerana Nova is 
.lie cheapest and best by actual 
est. Thousands of the best 
anglers in the world are using 
Lhera. Why not you? Univer- 
sally praised, strong, knotless, 
durable; one trial will con- 
vince the most skeptical. For 
trial, I will mail you a 3-ft. in any Bass or Trout size 
for 25c; 6-h., 50c; or 9-ft., 75c. One Leader will last 
you two seasons and then be good. Prices for Salmon 
sizes on application. 
Again, here is what the average angler has been looking 
for: Limerick Hooks, T. D. Eye No. 2, 4. 6. 8, 10 and 12. 
tied on Joe Welsh's Snells, making the hook the weakest 
part of your tackle. All sizes $1.00 per dozen. Save your 
fish by using this new snelled hook. They do not get 
brittle with age. 
The Blue Devil darning needle floats. Bass and Trout 
sizes with three foot leader attached, 75c. 
The “Welsherana" transparent minnows in five colors 
:'ie the latest and best in Plugdom. Trout and Bass 
sizes $1.00 each, can be used on a 
(iy rod or bail -casting rod. 
A sample order of the above will 
prove to you that Joe Welsh's goods 
’s in a class by itself. 
Most dealers handle ray goods. If 
yours don't write me. 
JOE WELSH 
PASADENA. CALIFORNIA. 
Distributors for U. S. and Canada. 
down to brass tacks, to the only free 
shooting grounds left, the only place 
where we may hunt and fish without 
trespassing — the public domain of 640,- 
000 acres, totally unfit for agriculture, 
fit only for forestry, recreation and 
sport. 
When one speaks of percentages he 
implies a definite knowledge of totals. 
1 personally know that no department or 
commission of the Michigan govern- 
ment can furnish even the most rudi- 
mentary estimate of the number or area 
of private or club preserves in the 
state. After he had fixed the total of 
club holdings at 1/4%, as compared with 
the free shooting area, Mr. Stoll in- 
formed me (Jan., 1922) that he does 
not know how many such preserves 
there are, but “more than 100.” Now I 
personally know of four club presen-es 
in Michigan, containing a total of ap- 
proximately 75,000 acres; rather more 
than 1)4% ! 
I know that some of the owners of 
club preserves have done much to make 
them attractive to game birds and 
animals. In such instances these few 
private preserves have been the means 
of re-stocking depleted game fields ad- 
joining. This, however, does not apply 
to wild-fowl preserves. For centuries 
before Pierre Radisson or Columbus 
were born, certain waters and marshes 
now a part of this state were the natural 
homes and feeding grounds of wild-fowl, 
because they produced abundant crops of 
wild rice, wild celery and other aquatic 
plants upon which they fed. A vast 
majority of the inland waters and 
shores of the Great Lakes were never 
the homes of wild-fowl. These natural 
wild-fowl areas were greatly decreased 
by the advent of the white man’s activ- 
ities. When the first clubs were formed 
for the purpose of acquiring duck-shoot- 
ing preserves, they very naturally and 
sensibly selected the best areas, those 
containing the most natural duck food. 
It was not necessary to add to their at- 
tractiveness. Of the original wild-fowl 
feeding grounds, by far the greater por- 
tion are to-day included in areas owned 
or controlled by clubs. 
Having granted the legality of two 
types of club preserves, four of which 
contain an area equal to more than 11% 
of our public domain, what guarantee do 
the club members and their defenders 
offer to us for the future? I have heard 
no guaranty. 
In October, 1921, an advertisement ap- 
peared in Detroit daily papers for the 
purchase of "large areas suitable for 
duck shooting.” In December, 1921, an 
attempt was made to purchase for a 
game preserve, 10,000 acres of the public 
domain, at a price of a little more than 
one dollar an acre. In August, 1921, an 
attempt was made to have the 5,000 acre 
state-owned Monroe marsh set aside as 
a wild-fowl refuge. The excuse was 
that if this was not done all the wild- 
fowl would pass over to the Canadian 
side where there was a 15,000 acre 
refuge. It looked to the Commission as 
though such a course would give to a 
certain shooting-cluh the sole benefits of 
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