Fed. I, 1913 
FOREST AND STREAM 
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Taxidermists. 
J. KANNOFSKY. 
PRACTICAL GLASS BLOWER 
and manufacturer of artificial eyes for birds, animals and manu¬ 
facturing purposes a specialty. Send for prices. All kinds of 
heads and skulls for furriers and taxidermists. 369 Carnal 
Street, New York. 
Please mention “Forest and Stream.” 
ROWLAND, 
TAXIDERMIST, 
A specialty in mounting Moose, Elk, Caribou and Deer 
heads. Call and examine work. 
No. 182 SIXTH AVENUE, 
Tel. 4205 Chelsea. Near 13th St. NEW YORK 
ARTHUR BINNEY 
(Formerly Stewart & Binney) 
Naval Architect and Yacht Broker 
Nason Building. Kilby St.. BOSTON. NASS. 
Cable Address. "Designer,” Boston 
COX (SL STEVENS 
Yacht Brokers and Naval Architects 
15 William Street - New York 
Telephones 1375 and 137b Broad 
Edible Locusts. 
Not a few commentators have stumbled 
over the statement that John the Baptist “did eat 
locusts.” Not aware that in the East locusts 
are eaten, even to this day, they have sug¬ 
gested that some sort of bean is meant. 
Locusts are to-day eaten in Arabia, pretty 
much as they were in Biblical times. Foreigners 
as well as natives declare that they are really 
an excellent article of diet. They are best 
boiled. 
The long, or “hopping,” legs must be pulled 
off, and the locust held by a wing and dipped 
into salt before it is eaten. As to flavor, the 
insect is said to taste like green wheat. 
The red locust is more palatable than the 
green kind. Some say that the female is red 
and the male green, but others contend that all 
are green at first, whatever the sex. 
Locusts must be caught in the morning, 
for then they are benumbed by the cold, and 
their wings are damp with the dew, so that 
they cannot fly. They may be found in Arabia 
clustered in hundreds under the desert bushes, 
and they can be literally shoveled into a bag 
or basket. 
Later the sun dries their wings, and it is 
hard to catch them. When in flight they re¬ 
semble what we call May-flies. They fly side- 
wise, drifting as it were before the wind. 
They devour everything vegetable, and are 
devoured by everything animal; desert larks and 
bustards, ravens, hawks and buzzards like them. 
The camels munch them in with their food; the 
greyhounds run snapping after them all day 
long, and, eat as many as they catch. The Be¬ 
douins often give them to their horses.— 
Youth’s Companion. 
Seagull 43 Years Old. 
M Blondeau, of Qnimperle, Brittany, 
shooting a few days ago, killed a seagull. At¬ 
tached to one of its legs was a ring with the in¬ 
scription in English: “1869. Return to the 
Zoological Station at Heligoland.” 
In 1869 Heligoland (now Helgoland) was a 
British possession. It has not been ascertained 
whether the tag was genuine. 
Bolivia, a Land of Varied Altitudes. 
The fifth largest country in the New World, 
Bolivia, lies wholly within the tropics, yet alti¬ 
tude, rather than latitude, determines climatic 
conditions. From the lofty plateau on the west 
marked by the highest peaks of the Andean 
range, the republic’s vast domain terraces down 
through smiling temperate valleys to the dense 
tropic jungle of the Amazonian plain. No 
greater contrast on earth can be pictured than 
that of the Titicaca basin and the eastern fron¬ 
tier. The one, treeless, windswept, encircled by 
the mightiest mountains of the Americas; the 
other, a sea of tangled verdure in the heart of 
the world’s greatest wilderness. In a land so 
varied the products naturally cover a wide 
range. Precious metals, wrested from the Ti¬ 
tanic strongholds of the Andes, rival Nature’s 
most lavish forest gifts. 
It was in the bleak mining region, two and 
a half miles above sea level, that the Spaniards 
first settled after the conquest, and it is here 
that the greater portion of the population is 
found to-day. Two thirds of the country lies 
in the lowlands, yet 88 per cent, of the people 
live on the plateau. Man is rooted to his 
native soil. The life of the Bolivian highlander 
is as dreary as his environment, yet he can not 
often be tempered down into the garden places 
just over the Andean wall.—American Review 
of Reviews. 
Why Thunder Sours Milk. 
It is universally known that milk turns sour 
after a thunderstorm. This has been attributed 
to the large quantity of ozone which is liberat¬ 
ed b}' the electricity in the air. The experi¬ 
ments of Professor Trillat in Paris do not con¬ 
firm that theory. He has established that at¬ 
mospheric depressions cause putrefying gases— 
normally quiescent—to rise to the surface of 
certain substances, and in support of his theory 
points out that odors of all sorts are more 
permeating after storms. These atmospheric 
depressions accelerate the decomposition of 
gases and tend to liberate them. Plence lactic 
ferment is produced. Professor Trillat has 
made many experiments with diverse sub¬ 
stances under varying pressures and has ob¬ 
served that when the barometer is lowest (dur¬ 
ing storms, etc.) the decomposition of gases is 
most rapid.—Harper’s Weekly. 
Girl Treed By a Bear. 
For Sale. 
game: birds 
Bungarian Partridges, Quail, Ring-neck Pheasants, Wllct 
Turkeys, Capercailzie, Black Game, Wild Ducks, Decoys, 
Beautiful Swans, Fancy Pheasants, Peafowl, Cranes, 
Storks, Ornamental Ducks and Geese. 
“Everything in the bird line 
from a Canary to an Ostrich, ** 
[ am the oldest established and largest exclusive dealer 
in land and water birds in America, and have on hand' 
the most extensive stock in the United States. 
G. D. TILLEY, Naturalist 
Box “F” Darien, Conn, 
Bob White Quail 
Partridges & Pheasants 
Capercailzies, Black Game, Wild Turkeys, Quails, 
Rabbits, Deer, etc., for stocking purposes. Fancy 
Pheasants, Peafowl, Swans, Cranes, Storks, 
Ornamental Geese and Ducks. Foxes, Squirrels, 
Ferrets, etc., and all kinds of birds and animals. 
WILLIAM J. MACKENSEN, Naturalist 
Dept. T, Pheasantry and Game Park 
YARDLEY, PA. 
RAINBOW TROUT 
ire well adapted to Eastern waters. Try stock¬ 
ing with some of the nice yearlings or fry from 
iwir hatchery, and you will be pleased with the 
results. 
PLYMOUTH ROCK TROUT COMPANY, 
Colburn C. Wood, Supt., Plymouth, Mass. 
Small'Mouth Black Bass 
We have the only establishment dealing in young small- 
aouth black bass commercially in the United States. Vig- 
jrous young bass in various sizes, ranging from advanced 
fry to 3 and 4 inch fingerlings for stocking purposes. 
Waramaug Small-Mouth Black Bass Hatchery. 
Word has been received here that Miss 
Laura Drumb. of Grand Rapids, had a narrow 
escape from death in Angeles, Wash. She 
recently accepted a position in the Angeles city 
schools and taking advantage of a day’s vaca¬ 
tion, went hunting. She had bagged twenty 
squirrels and several grouse and was about to 
fire her last cartridge when she saw a bear and 
had just time to climb a tree. 
There she remained five hours, the bear 
refusing to leave the foot of the tree. Because 
of her long absence, Frank Drumb, her uncle, 
started a search. He had his camera, and upon 
arriving at the scene, preserved his presence of 
mind sufficiently to snap a picture despite her 
protests before taking her from her perilous 
position.—Grand Rapids, Mich., correspondent 
Minneapolis Journal. 
Correspondence invited. Send for Circulars. Address 
HENRY W. BEEBIAN - - New Preston, Conn. 
3SSS for stocking brooks 
and lakes. Brook trout eggs 
in any quantity. Warranted delivered anywhere in fine 
condition. Correspondence solicited. 
THE PLYMOUTH ROCK TROUT CO., 
Plymouth, Mass. 
SPECKLED BROOK TROUT 
We intend to sell in the spring one-half million brook 
n'out fry, raised under best of conditions. Safe delivery 
guaranteed. Correspondence solicited. 
DRUMLIN TROUT HATCHERY, Barneveld, N. Y. 
FOR SALE.—Live Buffalo, male and female, any number. 
Mounted buffalo heads, chemically prepared to preserve 
against moths; also hides similarly prepared. Address 
714 Osborn Building, Cleveland, O. 
Raising Blue Foxes. 
The Mariposa, Capt. Thomas Moore, had 
250 passengers from southeastern and south¬ 
western Alaska ports, a shipment of salmon 
from Yakntat and an unusual consignment, 
twenty cages containing live blue fox for trans¬ 
shipment to St. John. N. B., where they will be 
used in starting fox farms. 
Fox raising has become quite an industry 
in northeastern Canada and big returns have 
been made from the sale of the animals’ pelts. 
The foxes were brought to Seward by the 
steamer Dora from western Alaska, some of 
them from as far. west as Dutch Harbor.— 
Seattle Post Intelligencer. 
Wants smd Exchanges. 
Fishing Tackle Repairer Wanted. 
Large sporting goods house desires services of practical 
fishing tackle repairer. Must be expert workman with 
long experience in repairing tackle of all kinds, spiit- 
bamboo and wood rods. Should be able to make heavy 
salt-water rods when not employed as repair man. Give 
full particulars. Address EXPERT, care Forest and 
■Stream, X^ew York, N. Y. 
WANTED 
Position as Superintendent of Game Preserve. Familiar 
with care of dogs and all kinds of shooting. 
T. C. MORRIS, Easton, Md. 
