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“Two hundred yards,” said Bob, and I made 
the mistake sportsmen so often make. I 
started by raising my sights, took a very steady 
aim at his rump, and fired. Fie stood still. I 
fired again. He never moved a muscle, but at 
the third shot he jumped, and we afterward 
discovered that it had passed through the 
webbed top of his right horn, throwing up the 
gravel ahead of him, so that Bob cried: “You 
are shooting high.” Down with the two-hun¬ 
dred yard sight, and as he trotted along the 
side hill, I brought him to earth with a shot 
through the foreshoulders. His horns, while 
evenly matched and very pretty, carried only 
twenty-five points, although he was, as Bob 
said, an exceptionally heavy animal. After 
photographing him we took the head and a 
quantity of meat and were at camp in time to 
skin out the head before dark, all save the ears. 
Next morning I tackled the ears. Score: 
First ear, three hours; second ear, one and one- 
half hours; both ears, a large amount of 
language and backache, and eighteen black fly 
bites on my forearms, inflicted while I was 
helpless to slap flies. Skinning out ears is to 
a greenhorn quite a nerve-racking job, and I 
have heretofore brought in my head skins with 
the cartilage in ears. The final result, however, 
while good at the hand of a first-class taxi¬ 
dermist, is not as safe for the long pull as if 
the ears be skinned out fresh and thoroughly 
salted clean to the tips. 
[to be continued.] 
Improved Fish Hatchery at Pratt, Kan. 
BY LEWIS LINDSAY DYCHE, STATE FISH AND GAME 
WARDEN. 
The pond system of the new and improved 
fish hatchery at Pratt, Kansas, was completed 
in November, 1912. It has been said that the 
building of this hatchery is an epoch in the his¬ 
tory of fish hatcheries. Not only is this the 
largest fish hatchery so far as we know that ever 
has been built, but in many respects it is the 
most complete and best equipped. The water 
system, controlled by over ioo solid concrete 
structures with bronze and iron gates securely 
fitted, is the most complete arrangement for 
handling water that has yet been constructed for 
a fish hatchery. The water itself is ideal for 
fish culture purposes. The supply is taken from 
the South Ninnescah River, just south of the 
city of Pratt. A solid cement dam 500 feet long 
holds a supply lake of about seven acres. A 
cement chamber receives the water through heavy 
wire screens from the supply lake and passes it 
through a gateway into the 21-inch conduit pipe. 
While the water is clear, coming from innumer¬ 
able springs a few miles west of Pratt, yet it 
runs several miles through beds of watercress, 
moss and other water plants before it reaches 
the supply lake. Hence the water is well sup¬ 
plied with minute animal and plant life and other 
fish food, and is well aerated before it is poured 
into the breeding ponds. 
OBJECT OF HATCHERY. 
The chief object of the State fish hatchery 
is to supply brood stock fish for the ponds, lakes 
and streams of Kansas. There is no better food 
than fish, and with most people fresh fish is a 
real luxury. Most fish lose flavor and quality 
very rapidly when removed from the water. It 
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