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FOREST AND STREAM 
September, 1919 
NEWTON RIFLES 
AND 
AMMUNITION 
now made and sold by 
THE NEWTON ARMS CORPORATION 
Woolworth Building New York 
successors to 
The Newton Arms Co., Inc. 
Buffalo, N. Y. 
"sVe"cYa\ marine canoe glue 
NY puncture or leak in boat, canoe or flying boat can be repaired in flve 
minutes. It is as valuable to a canoeist as a repair kit to a bicyclist 
or automobilist. It is a Jolinny-on-lhe-spot article that no boatman should 
be without. It does not dry up nor deteriorate in the can. but will be 
found equally as ready for use in ten years as today. Priction lop emer- 
geno’ cans. 35 cents each; by mail. 40 cents each. Canada. 47 cents. 
Send for new booklet* ‘Marine Clue»Whatto Use and Now to Use lt**and **How te Make 
Your Boat Leakproof.** At all Hardware and Sporting Goods Houses. 
W. FERDINAND & CO., 152 Kneeland Street, Boston, Mass., U* S, A. 
DO YOU KNOW 
that for just 10 cents a day 
you can give a child 
to France ? 
The men of France have died fighting our ba‘tles. 
The women and children of Fiance are left to bear the 
burden. 
$36.50 a year, added to the small allowance of the 
French Government, will save a child for the new 
France. Will you subscribe $.10 a day. $3 a month. 
$36.50 a year; pa>-able monthly, quarterly or yearly. 
Every penny of the money collected goes to the chil- 
dren. Expenses are paid from a separate fund. 
Prove your patriotism by helping immediately, prac- 
tically and personally, our ally. France. 
Ten Cents a day means little to you. IVhen a grate- 
ful letter comes from some little child in France you 
will know how much it means there. 
$ .10 keeps a child 1 day $36.50 keeps a child 1 yr. 
3.00 " “ “ 1 mo. 73.50 “ " *' 2 yrs. 
Date 
myseir I $36.50.... for a aged .... in Its 
I pledge V home for .... years 
( $ for .... children in their 
^ ’ homes for years 
t enclose herewith $ in payment for the 
above and pledge myself to give the remainder in 
payments. 
CROSS OUT THE PARA- 
GRAPHS YOU DOX'T ACCEPT 
I promise to give the same amount next year. I wish 
to know the name and address of the child or children. 
Signed 
Address 
Checks should be drawn to “THE FATHERLESS 
CHILDREN OF FRANCE CO^DUTTEE" and mailed 
to the Chicago Treasurer, DAVID R. FORGAN, Room 
741 Fine Arts Building. Chicago. 
Let Us Tan Your Hide. 
And let us do your head mounting, rug, robe, 
ccat, and glove making. You never lose any- 
thing and generally gain by dealing direct with 
headquarters. 
We tan. deer skins with hair on for rugs, or 
trophies, or dress them into buckskin glove 
leather. Bear, dog. calf. cow. horse or any 
other kind of hide or skin tanned with the hair 
or fur on, and finished soft, light, odorless, and 
made up into rugs, gloves, caps, men’s and 
women’s garments when so ordered. 
Get our illustrated catalog which gives prices 
of tanning, taxidermy and head mount'ng. ALso 
prices of fur goods and big mounted game heads 
we sell. 
THE CROSBY FRISIAN FUR COMPANY 
Rochester* N. Y. 
Is This Worth the Price ? 
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monials and booklet, Making a Meat Dog, 
sent on request. 
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geese seem to become confused, are less 
wary at that time and come more read- 
ily to the decoys. 
Great numbers of wild geese were for- 
merly killed at night by market hunters. 
A strong searchlight was mounted on 
the bow of the gunning boat and the 
hunter rowed about on the bay to locate 
a flock of sleeping geese. When the pow- 
erful light was turned on them the fowl 
became confused and seemed to forget 
themselves, often allowing the hunter to 
approach within range. Large gauge 
guns were used, often too large to be 
shot from the shoulder, in which case 
they were mounted on a stand. Many 
geese were often killed at a shot, it 
naturally being the desire of the market 
hunter to bag the greatest number of 
birds with the least expenditure of am- 
munition. This form of shooting has 
been absolutely prohibited for many 
years. It was extremely destructive, and 
of course, did not contain a vestige off 
sportsmanship. 
When geese are approaching, it is of 
the utmost importance for the sportsman 
in the blind to remain absolutely motion- 
less. The slight moving of a hand or the 
turning of the head will often be suf- 
ficient to spoil the chance for a shot. 
Geese fly with great rapidity and it is 
necessary to shoot far ahead of them 
when they are passing. They are large 
birds and always appear to be nearer 
than they really are. It is, therefore, 
important not to shoot too soon, but to 
let them come well in over the decoys. 
Large gauge guns are often used in 
shooting geese. Frequently the 10-gauge, 
often the 8 -gauge, is used today where it 
is lawful to do so. But a strong shoot- 
ing full-choked 12 -gauge, loaded with 3^4 
drams of powder and 114 ounces of num- 
ber 2 shot, will prove very effective in 
the hands of a man who knows how to 
use it. Smaller gauges are used, even 
as small as the 20 -gauge, but with these 
guns there is always the chance of 
wounding birds which will not be re- 
covered. Every sportsman desires to kill 
his bird quickly and cleanly. 
T he Canada geese, with the young of 
the year, come to the United States 
in the latter part of October and 
during November, and continue to move 
southward as the waters freeze over. 
They pass again in the early spring on 
their long journey to the northern breed- 
ing grounds. Immense numbers of geese 
formerly passed up and down the Mis- 
sissippi Valley in the spring and fall. 
The fowl were also extremely plentiful 
throughout the interior in general and 
on the Pacific, Atlantic and Gulf Coasts. 
Enormous bags of geese were made a 
few years ago, but heavy shooting by a 
constantly increasing number of hunters 
and the encroachments of civilization on 
their feeding grounds have sadly dimin- 
ished their numbers. 
Goose shooting is exciting sport, and 
I have spent many enjoyable days over 
the decoys on the bay, hunting these wise 
old travelers of the sky. Often the days 
were bitter cold and stormy, but to the 
lover of wild-fowl shooting the sport is 
always worth the exposure to the bleak 
winds and the drirtng rain or snow. 
