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SPORTING FIREARMS IN THE WORLD 
TRADE MARK 
STEVENS 
REG US PAT.OFF & FGN 
J. 
IT IS THE SPORTMAN’S PROTECTION 
LARGEST MAKERS 
THE HOME OF THOROUGHBRED DOGS. 
Berry, Ky., Feb. 27, 1914. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
There is no doubt but what fox and coon hunt¬ 
ing is becoming more popular every year, as de¬ 
votees to these two sports will be found in 
nearly every walk of life. The vicinity of Berry, 
Kentucky, has long been famous as an ideal fox 
and coon hunting territory, and some of the 
most famous hunting dogs that ever lived were 
bred, raised and trained here. While the sport 
has always been popular and the interest in it 
has never been diminished, the game is bound 
to decrease, and important steps have been taken 
to replenish same. Mr. Stanley Blake, a widely 
known Kentucky sportsman and breeder, has lent 
his aid and is doing his utmost to uphold these 
sports to the highest standard of perfection. 
Thousands of sportsmen in every section of 
America are the proud possessors of hounds 
bred in this locality and find in them the highest 
type of efficiency. Bird hunting is also very 
popular, and the setters and pointers bred here 
are unsurpassed. It can be truly said that the 
people in the state at large have at all times had 
a wide-awake interest in matters pertaining to 
the breeding of thoroughbred dogs. A friendly 
rivalry exists as to who can raise the best dogs. 
Special pride is manifested in testing the real 
quality of each other’s hounds and bird dogs. 
The Airedale is fast gaining favor in Kentucky, 
as this breed is unexcelled as a general purpose 
dog. Dog fanciers are firmly convinced that the 
Airedale is here to stay. 
It affords me great pleasure to state that I am 
a reader of your interesting publication. Would 
like to read notes and comments from sportsmen 
of this section, of the country. 
Wishing your magazine continuous success, 
FRED J. STEGNER. 
TIM COLEMAN’S BEAR. 
(Continued from page 404.) 
deer’s horns a stickin' out of the brush, that old 
Nixon swamp bear stuck his head over the bank 
at the edge of the field! His old nose was 
stickin’ up in the air, and the rest of ’im was 
down behind the bank. 
“There wa’nt nothin’ to shoot at only his nose, 
and I kept still. He snuffed a little, but the wind 
was from him to me and he just come up over 
that bank as if there wa’n’t a man with a gun 
in a mile of ’im. He took a step or two and then 
stopped and turned his head to look back and 
give me the chance I wanted. I drew a fine sight 
just between his eye and his ear—he wa’nt more’n 
four rod off—and cut loose. The cap snapped 
and the gun didn’t go off. That old bear turned 
a back-hand spring into the swamp, and I’ve 
never got a crack at ’im since. 
“He’s lucky, for about five minutes after he 
vanished, a pa’tridge walked out from under a 
juniper bush at the edge of the swamp and I 
shot his head off. The darned gun never even 
hung fire.” 
The house was duly finished that afternoon, and 
before the star of evening twinkled in the sky 
Tim’s future home under the oaks reared its 
rough log walls and shake roof where the morn¬ 
ing sun had looked on naught but the forest wall. 
The company of house builders wended its 
way home, as the shades began to fall, by road 
or cross lots as inclination or convenience 
prompted. Hi Martin and James Bryson, as they 
walked through the woods and newly cleared 
fields on their way home, discussed plans for a 
campaign against their common enemy, the old 
bear of Nixon’s swamp, who by reason of un¬ 
usual cunning, had survived where other bears 
had gone to the happy hunting grounds to fur¬ 
nish employment for the uneasy ghosts of the 
old hunters, who, if report be true, would not 
be happy in heaven without those dear enemies 
of earth. 
(To be continued.) 
DEER STARVING. 
Hundreds of deer died in the Maine woods 
during the winter on account of the deep snow 
and lack of food, according to the opinion of 
many guides and trappers in that region. Scott 
Cook, a well-known guide of Piscataquis county, 
recently reported that he had found the remains 
of nine deer near a “yard.” The bodies had been 
mutilated by bobcats and foxes. The starving 
deer had stripped the trees thereabouts of bark 
and twigs. 
The California commission plans to distribute 
18,000,000 fry during the year beginning June 1. 
A special car with from six to ten men will travel 
throughout the state to distribute the trout. 
Juniper from the Indian reservations of New 
Mexico and Arizona may prove an excellent 
source of material for lead pencils. Manufac¬ 
turers are searching the world for pencil woods. 
