Sept. 6, 1913. 
FOREST AND STREAM 
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that hook. Angels could do no more.” That’s 
how the expression originated. 
In the matter of bait, more latitude is per¬ 
missible. The best method of obtaining bait is 
to purchase it in two widely different and sepa¬ 
rated places. Let one place be a popular rally¬ 
ing point for fishermen. Some emporium for in¬ 
stance where they gather together to tell each 
other what a heck uv a fellow they each are. 
Let the other be a couple of miles up the beach 
where the pound fishermen land. When about 
to start off for a twenty-four hour whirl on the 
beach, drop into the first-named place and greet 
the assembled multitude jauntily. Announce 
your purpose of going to it for all night and 
possibly all the next day. Call loudly to the 
boy in the back end of the store to pack you 
three crabs, and to give them plenty of moist 
grass. This grass play will redound to your 
reputation for kindheartedness, and you can 
make your escape under its cover. Then repair 
quickly to the pound fishermen's landing and 
separate them deftly from about six large squid 
which should be hidden in the corner of your 
pocket under your sandwiches. By careful 
manipulation you can then beach a 26-pounder 
at 3 a. M., and after burying him carefully in 
the sand, cast your bait again into the sea and 
beach a 40-pounder at 4 a. m.— quite enough for 
breakfast. By following these directions im¬ 
plicitly, you will be in position to answer all 
embarrassing questions. If some inquisitive 
mollycoddle asks what bait you got ’em on, you 
reply gayly, ‘‘The old reliable. I got three crabs 
at John's last night and gave two of ’em to 
Scotty just as I came away f’m the beach.” 
Never carry a knife in your bag. It’s one 
of the worst of hoodoos. Don’t keep your reel 
polished up Bass prefer reels that are well 
pasted up with shedder crab. And if anyone 
wishes you ‘‘Good luck,” remove him from the 
map and return home. You may as well remain 
at home in the first place, for somebody is sure 
to wish you luck. The only reason why I don’t 
advise it is that you may eventually end the 
earthly career of one of the multitude who in 
the past have hoodooed your humble servant, for 
I am sure that if I could only get to the beach 
once without some one wishing me good luck, 
I’d get a bass. 
Forest Notes. 
France has spent $35,000,000 in planting 
trees on the watersheds of important streams. 
According to the Canadian Forestry As¬ 
sociation, 50 per cent, of Canada is capable of 
growing nothing but timber crops. 
Ammonia bombs are being tried out on 
some of the national forests for the purpose of 
extinguishing forest fires. They are said to 
have worked well in the case of brush fires 
where the fire-fighters find difficulty in getting 
near enough to the burning area to beat out 
the flames. Each bomb exploded will extin¬ 
guish fire in a circle of about five yards in 
diameter. 
The Western Pacific Railway has in¬ 
structed its engineers to report fires along 
the right-of-way where it traverses the Plumas 
national forest, California. The location of 
fires is indicated on a card dropped by the en¬ 
gineer or fireman to the next section crew met 
after the fire is discovered. It is then the duty 
of part of the section crew to go back on 
handcars or speeders and put out the blaze. 
More persons make use of the national 
forests in Utah than in any other State. 
Nearly 27 per cent, of all the permits for 
sheep and cattle grazing on the forests are 
taken out in this State. This does not mean, 
however, that Utah carries one-fourth of all 
the national forest cattle and sheep; it hap¬ 
pens that many small grazing interests make 
use of the forests there; and individual flocks 
and herds are larger elsewhere. 
American Foresters Help Palestine. 
An agricultural colony in Palestine has just 
applied to the United States Forest Service for 
help in planting trees to bind the drifting sands 
of the Mediterranean. The colony is near Jaffa, 
or Yafa. the ancient Joppa of the Bible, and 
there is being developed in connection with it, a 
seaside resort, with hotel, villas, bath houses 
and gardens 
The experts of the service point out that 
the reclamation of sand dunes is not a serious 
problem in the eastern United States because 
the prevailing winds are from the land and the 
sand is blown into the sea. On the west coast 
the situation is more serious. The most notable 
example of reclaimed sand areas there is furn¬ 
ished by Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, 
where grasses, acacias, and, later, trees and 
shrubs have converted sand wastes into pleasure 
grounds of great beauty. 
The attention of the Palestine colony is 
called to the wonderful reclamation of the 
Landes, France: where a wealth-producing 
forest of maritime pine, the source of the 
French turpentine, has been grown to take the 
place of shifting dunes. The American foresters 
also give the address of the French seedsman 
who furnished this government with the mari¬ 
time pine seed which has been used in planting 
experiments on the Florida National Forest, 
near the Gulf Coast. 
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Our Outing Blankets are made to meet the require¬ 
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