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FOREST AND STREAM 
Nov. 8, 1913. 
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barrels. 
As soon after being killed as possible, these 
were tied in pairs by their feet and hung head 
down to dry and chill. They were kept hanging 
all night and by morning were almost like 
lumps of ice, frozen just enough, without being 
stiff and solid. After careful wrapping, they 
were placed forty-eight in a barrel, which filled 
the barrels so full it was necessary to press the 
heads in place, using a long lever and con¬ 
siderable force. When the hoops were tightened 
and the heads nailed, we had an air-proof pack¬ 
age, solid and cold as ice inside, in which the 
ducks would keep a week if it was warm, and 
much longer if the weather kept cool. 
By sunrise the morning after they had been 
killed they were in a sailboat bound for Galves¬ 
ton, and left the same night on the Northern 
Express for Chicago, where they were examined 
and found in perfect condition. 
A refrigerator express car carried them to 
New York, and in cold storage on a ocean 
liner they made the trip across the Atlantic. 
They reached London twelve days from the day 
they were killed, in good order, not a spoiled 
duck among them. The expense for express 
and steamship charges was about twenty-five 
dollars a barrel, and the ducks sold for a guinea 
each, so it was a profitable deal all around. 
The next year business prevented a Texas 
trip. After that, game laws began to stiffen 
and the writer went North or West instead of 
South. He may talk about some of these ex¬ 
peditions later on. 
ROUGH NOTES FROM THE LAKES. 
Continued from page 595. 
now was realizing what I had craved for in the 
past tinder-dry yesterdays in the arid West. 
The boat was edged in to the pads, and there 
I took up the fight, but the ingenious creature 
dove in between the pads, and I stood in good 
to lose him. Nearer and nearer we pushed in 
the boat, and presently I got him out and intact 
upon the hook. He was a fine fellow, full of 
battle, and active to the end, but he was not 
the only one we got out of those pads, for in 
the ensuing hour and a half we took out three 
more, but it was only with care, patience and a 
dogged determination that we were so success¬ 
ful. This ended a gracious day; one of the 
best I have known, not the least of the features 
of its brilliance being the ride home through 
the early autumnal woodland, just beginning to 
show the bright coloring of the season. 
German foresters are experimenting with 
Douglas fir from the United States trying to 
find a variety which will combine the fast-grow¬ 
ing quality of the Pacific coast form and the 
hardiness of the Rocky Mountain form. 
Oils distilled from the needles of spruce and 
fir trees are being used to scent petroleum floor 
oils, which are sometimes objectionable on ac¬ 
count of their odor. 
The Governor of Iowa has set aside a fire 
prevention day, urging that the citizens discuss 
conditions and create a sentiment against forest 
fires and other conflagrations. 
His wings didn’t even flutter as he 
came down. 
Never saw a duck drop so dead. 
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i- . --— 
The Trail of the Sweetwater. 
BY W. K. FENN. 
A word here concerning the geographical 
formation of this portion of the route. About 
the neighborhood of Deer Creek the soil 
is a red color, due to the disintegration 
of the red argillaceous sandstone, which forms 
the bulk of the hills. Here the Platte River 
makes a wide sweep to the west and south, and 
doubling upon itself enters the high mountains 
to the south, and the vast high mesa or table¬ 
lands beyond or, rather, this description, to ac¬ 
cord with the usual method of describing, should 
reverse itself, in order to describe the stream 
from its source toward its mouth instead of 
from its mouth toward its source, as the path 
of the expedition was leading. Thus the head¬ 
waters of the river rise in the high spurs and 
broad high mesas far to the south in Colorado. 
It flows northwest and north, breaking through 
the mountains near the mouth of the Sweetwater 
River, which here joins the Platte, through great 
gorges and canons. It then sweeps north and 
east in a wide circle toward Fort Fetterman. 
A short distance above Deer Creek stand 
some buttes (isolated hills) called the Red 
Buttes. The term “butte” is applied to a de¬ 
tached hill, and in this case, as in most others 
of the Western country, are formed by the 
action of the frost and water by which the soft 
