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REAL ESTATE FOR SPORTSMEN, ETC. 
FOR SALE — TRACT OF 1,000 ACRES IN 
fork of two rivers. In Onslow County, North 
Carolina. Excellent location for Hunting Lodge 
and game preserve. Good hunting and fishing. 
Geo. A. Hurst Estate, Jacksonville, N. C. 
FOR SALE — 1.000-ACRE FARM IN PIED- 
mont section, Virginia, suitable stock raising or 
hunting preserve. Well watered and about half in 
fine timber. Mrs. D. M. Trice, Charlottesville, Va. 
$5.00 DOWN; $5.00 MONTHLY; FIVE 
acre fruit, poultry, fur farm ; river front ; Ozarks ; 
$100. Hunting, fishing, trapping. 1973 North 
Fifth, Kansas City, Kansas. 
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TOBACCO— NATURAL LEAF— RICH, MEL- 
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lbs. $3.50. Postpaid. Checks taken. Money 
back if not pleased. Clark’s River Plantation, 
Hazel, Ky. 
WILD DUCK ATTRACTIONS 
WILD RICE, WILD CELERY AND OTHER 
cover and food producing plants attract ducks 
from hundreds of miles. Seed ready for fall 
planting. The flocks that stop in the spring will 
stop again next fall and will bring their young- 
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SILVER, PATCH AND RED FOXES TWIN- 
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REAL EXPRESSION AND SHAPE. 
Everything mountable from smallest to largest. 
Moderate prices, good work. Moose and Elk 
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Hofmann-Taxidermist, 989 Gates Ave., Brook- 
lyn, N. Y. 
DOGS (additional) 
FOR SALE— ENGLISH, LLEWELLYN, 
Irish setter pups, trained dogs, pointers, Irish 
Water Spaniels and Chesapeake Bay Retrievers, 
both pups trained dogs ; inclose six cents stamps 
for lists. Thoroughbred Kennels, Atlantic, la. 
FOR SALE. TRAINED BEAGLES AND 
beagle pups. Harold Evans, Moores Hill, In- 
diana. 
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Washington. 
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of the pike family you will probably have 
cause to be surprised at their usefulness. 
In the number 5 size they cast well. In 
fact I like far better to cast it than troll 
it. It seems cut out for a casting lure. 
Y'* ASTING for both pike and muskal- 
^ lunge is now quite an institution. It 
is a method that came into prominence 
not many years ago, for men are con- 
ventional in most everything; hence they 
held solidly to the trolling method and 
did not try out casting. But a little 
study of the method will prove its use- 
fulness. By casting the lure one makes 
for accuracy; he can search out the 
pockets he believes a fish to be in, thus 
doing away with much needless trolling, 
perhaps with a weed in tow. For cast- 
ing a spoon of the Number 5 size, a 
smooth-running reel is needed ; but al- 
most any reel will cast it well, as it has 
just the right heft, without the additional 
casting weight. I have one hint to offer 
about casting the spoon which may add 
many a fish to your bag. It is this: In 
casting, see that your spoon falls in 
water quite free from weeds, so that you 
have a clear path to reel through. In- 
stead of reeling very slowly, reel it with 
some speed, though not so speedily that 
the spoon jumps from the water. I kept 
tab on the results that I had from reeling 
the spoon very slowly and very fast, and 
I found that reeling fast got the fish 
where the other one failed sometimes 
completely. 
Start to reel as soon as the spoon hits 
the water. The fish has not time to 
make up his mind about anything save 
that he sees something glittering that 
looks fishlike and is trying to get away. 
On the impulse of the moment he rushes 
at it. 
Nor are the spoons the only lures that 
are desirable in pike, pickerel and mus- 
kallunge fishing. Sometimes there is 
nothing so taking as a perch upon the 
hook ; indeed, a perch is almost always a 
lure that can be used successfully, the 
reason being that the pike family prey 
upon the perch schools more steadily 
than upon any other of the smaller spe- 
cies of fishes. A perch is therefore a 
dependable lure that should not he lost 
track of. It does not have to be used 
alive on the hook. Perch three and four 
inches in length cast very well, and if 
you have a hook rig so that there will 
he one hook, or gang, in hack fastened 
into the flesh of the perch, you will he 
sure of making a capture, more so than 
if you have hut one hook fastened at the 
mouth of the lure. During the hours 
of feeding the perch lure comes in for 
especial mention. Cast then up into the 
pockets in the weed and pad beds ; around 
channel mouths, inlets and outlets, and 
in the bays, and you will find that you 
will have good luck. 
Pork-rind lures are also good for the 
members of the pike family; a tapering, 
V-shaped piece cut from the belly (the 
flesh adhering to the skin) of a pickerel, 
pike or musky will catch the next one in 
order without any trouble. 
You will remember that it was Oliver 
Wendell Holmes who first recommended 
a strip cut from the belly of a pickerel 
November, 1921 
as a pickerel lure. The bit of verse runs 
as follows : 
“There’s a slice near the pickerel’s pec- 
toral fins 
Where the thorax leaves off and the 
venter begins, 
Which his brother, survivor of fish- 
hooks and lines, 
Tho’ fond of his family, never declines; 
He loves his relations; he feels they’ll 
be missed ; 
But that one little tit-bit he cannot re- , 
sist, 
So your bait may be swallowed, no mat- 
ter how fast, 
For you catch your next fish with a 
piece of the last.” 
T 1 HE artificial minnows as pike, pick- 
* erel and muskallunge lures are very 
good, especially the white ones with red 
heads, and the perch-colored underwater 
ones. As for the wobbler minnows, I 
would not be afraid to fish any good 
pike or musky water outfitted with these 
lures alone. It is my belief that most 
of the really big pike and muskies are 
caught on artificial minnows when the j! 
angler was casting for bass. 
There are wooden minnows that are 
especially made for trolling, but for my 
part I like to cast them, using not the j 
very large fellows, but the small ones. 
One may probably not care to risk his 
wooden minnow on a big fish, but let 
me tell you that it is well worth having 
a minnow hacked up by savage fangs : 
merely to get the fish you are after. 
Personally, I like those small-bodied, 
artificial minnows with a single gang in 
back, that gang masked in red-dyed 
buckhair; the body yellow, with blackish 
spottings. There may be others that are 
better on the autumnal bass and pikes, 
but I have never located it, and I have 
tried every color. 
Don’t forget autumn fishing. Even a 
few days spent now is worth a week or 
two on the waters in August and July. 
The days of sweating are over; there 
is life and vim in the air; every catch 
made now is one not soon forgotten. 
And, too, the pike family can be caught 
up to the time the ice forms on the 
waters and the wind comes stiff and grim 
out of the North ! 
TAMING A GREY 
SQUIRREL 
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I was interested in watching the squir- 
rel bury nuts on the lawn; the ground 
was carefully patted down and all traces 
of recent excavation removed. One day 
I saw another squirrel watching from a 
near-by tree while Cuffy carefully buried 
a nut. As soon as Cuffy disappeared the 
strange squirrel cautiously approached 
the spot where Cuffy had been at work, ! 
and standing erect made a quick survey , 
of the surroundings, no doubt to see] 
if the owner of the private hoard was 
within range of vision, then swiftly dug 
up the buried treasure. Cuffy hove in 
sight just as the bold robber seized the 
loot. The trespasser quickly fled, with , 
Cuffy, hurling maledictions, in hot pur- 
suit. ! | 
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