June 28, 1913 
FOREST AND STREAM 
807 
WHAT DOES 524 SIGNIFY 
TO A BASS FISHERMAN 
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TH!E CAMPER’S OWN BOOK 
1913-SECOND SUCCESSFUL YEAB-1913 
I This is that BIG little book of the open—America’s new outdoor annual. It comes to you bound 
as you see it here. It is “woodsy” from cover to cover—stirred by lake breezes and redolent of 
pine. It is endorsed by outdoor men everywhere. 
Authors of country-wide repute have, with their enthusiasm and familiar knowledge, aided its 
making. Dan Beard, Emlyn M. Gill, Captain Kenealy, Oliver Kemp, Dr. E. H. Forbush—these 
and others join this camp-fire council. They say their say about a hundred practical details that 
hold close interest for you; and they spin a yarn or two by the way. 
“The Camper’s Own Book” measures 8x5 3-8 inches over all. It is a goodly generous volume, 
with over 200 pages and 21 of the finest illustrations you’ve ever seen. Everybody should have a 
copy who believes that a day under the free sky makes the pomp of emperors ridiculous. And 
you’re one—you know you are. 
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If your dealer cannot supply you, we will send on receipt of price. We have on hand also a few 
copies in cloth of the 1912 issue (now out of print) at $1.00 each, postage 6c. 
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wean them at the proper time, and in this way 
educate them. 
Many a lesson to man in hygiene is taught 
by the lower animals. Animals get rid of their 
parasites by using dust, mud, clay, etc. When 
suffering from fever, they restrict their diet, keep 
quiet, seek the quiet airy places, drink water and 
sometimes plunge into it. When a dog loses 
its appetite it eats that species of grass known 
as dog grass (Chieiident) which acts as a purga¬ 
tive. Cats also eat grass. Give a dull moping 
cat a handful of catnip and see what she will 
do. In ten minutes she will be like a new 
creature. Sheep and cows when out of sorts 
seek out certain herbs. Horses are particularly 
careful of their diet, and when “off their feed" 
and generally feeling as bad as a bilious man 
can feel, they know just what will help them, 
and they get it if they can. 
The writer owned a fine, high-bred, intelli¬ 
gent mare that knew pretty nearly as much as 
most men—probably more than we do about the 
proper care of themselves. She knew where to 
find a certain clump of burdock plants and took 
a few leaves as regularly as she did her oats. 
If she was stabled, the leaves were supplied to 
her at least once a week. She knew also where 
a certain box containing salt and ashes, thor¬ 
oughly mixed together, was to be found, and as 
regularly each week or oftener took a small 
quantity of this. She could never be tempted 
with bread, cake, candy or sweetmeats of any 
kind, but a good juicy sour apple just “hit the 
spot.’’ She never knew what it was to be “out 
of kilter’’ for a minute in the course of seven 
years or longer, was always in good spirits and 
ready for a twenty-mile drive any day or in 
any weather. 
An animal can “doctor” itself well enough 
when the means are found, and to the science 
of surgery is not a stranger. 'When it has a 
wounded leg or arm hanging on, it completes 
the operation with its teeth. A dog, on being 
stung by a viper, has been seen to plunge its 
head repeatedly for several days into running 
water, and eventually recovered. A fine setter 
belonging to a friend was run over by a carriage. 
The dog dragged itself to a brook of running 
water, where it remained in the water for three 
weeks during quite cold weather. Its food was 
taken to it regularly, and the animal recovered. 
A terrier injured its eye, and kept itself in a 
dark place under a store counter, avoiding both 
light and heat, though customarily to be found 
near a good fire. It adopted a general sensible 
treatment, rest and abstinence from food. The 
local treatment consisted in licking the upper 
surface of the paw which it applied to the 
wounded eye, again licking the paw when it be¬ 
came dry. 
Cats also when hurt adopt this system of 
simple continuous irrigation. Animals suffering 
from traumatic fever treat themselves by the 
continued application of cold, which is considered 
by many eminent physicians as more certain in 
its curative effects than any other. Innumerable 
instances might be quoted from the experience 
and observations of owners of animals to prove 
that hygiene and therapeutics as practiced by 
the brute creation may be studied with advan¬ 
tage. 
Omaha is the second largest sheep market 
in the world. 
Mares for the Farm. 
The man, who keeps geldings or mules for 
his farm work, secures only their labor in re¬ 
turn, while the man who keeps draft mares re¬ 
ceives not only their labor, but in addition their 
colts. It is true, says the Pacific Homestead, 
that somewhat more team force must be kept 
where the work is done by geldings, but when 
we consider that three mares can be counted 
upon to do as much as any team of geldings 
of an equal weight and strength, that the dif¬ 
ference in feed cost will not exceed $6o per 
year, and that the three mares can be counted 
upon to produce in addition to their labor, at 
least two colts, that are worth $ioo each as 
yearlings, it is apparent that the mares are the 
most profitable. The comparison just made is 
on the basis of grade mares; where pure bred 
mares are kept, the returns will be much 
greater. 
Bird Plumage. 
Hundreds of thousands of plumes and 
skins of birds from every part of the world 
are annually sold at auction in London. The 
dealers have their agents in all the tropical 
countries, who employ the natives to snare and 
slaughter the birds. New Guinea, the Malay 
Peninsula, Burma, China, India, the Indian 
archipelago, the South Sea Islands, the West 
Indies, and the equatorial countries of South 
America are the fields of this industry. A con¬ 
dor skin sells in I.ondon for from $3.50 to 
$5-75; the plumes of the birds of paradise, of 
which there are many varieties, from $1.14 to 
$24.60: cassowary plumes for $3.48 an ounce; 
“osprey” skins for $1.08 to $2.78; emu skins 
for $4.80; the African golden cuckoo, $1.68; 
crown pigeon heads, $2.50; the argus pheasant’s 
skin, $3.85, and the humming bird, of which 
many thousands are killed, as low as two cents. 
