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FOREST AND STREAM 
Dec. 7 , 1912 
Resort* for Sportsmen. 
Florida. 
Oakland Hotel 
OAKLAND, FLA. 
On shore of the charming Lake Apopka, second largest 
lake in Florida. 
The Sportsman’s Opportunity. —Where he can 
get his full bag every day of Quail, Duck, Jacksnipe, 
Oswego Bass, Brim and Trout. In a territory not 
overcrowded and little shot over. 
The man from Missouri is the one we want be¬ 
cause we will show him or refuse his money. 
Climate delightful. Write now for terms and reserva¬ 
tion, information or booklet to 
OAKLAND HOTEL. 
Winter Sport with Rod and Gun 
Sportsmen, spend your winter vacation here. Good 
ihooting; thousands of ducks; plenty of quail. Both 
fresh and salt water fishing can be had within a short 
distance of the house. Booklet sent free. Correspond¬ 
ence invited. Address 
THE RENDEZVOUS, Homosassa, Florida. 
T. D. BRIGGS, Proprietor. 
GASPARILLA INN BOC F £o G R m A A NDE 
First Season First Class Write for Booklet 
Everything New and Modern. Opens January 1st. Under 
Management of MR. FRANK H. ABBOTT. 
Through Pullman Buffet Sleeper leaves Jacksonville daily 
9:30 P.M.; arrives Boca Grande next day 1 P.M. Beautiful 
Gulf Beach; Surf Bathing; Boating; Fishing; Hunting. 
Maine. 
MACHIAS LAKE CAMPS. Ashland, Me. 
Best Moose and Deer hunting in Maine. Remote camps. 
MACHIAS LAKE CAMPS, W. P. McNally, Prop. 
WINTER PICKEREL FISHING. 
The finest in Maine. No license to pay. No limit to 
number of fish or number of pounds you can catch. One 
party took seven barrels. Ship or take home all you 
want. Best of board. Nice warm rooms. Hotel right on 
shore of Lake. Terms only $2.00 per day. Address: 
J. G. HARLOW, Flagstaff, Maine. 
New Jersey. 
OAK COURT HOTEL, Lakewood, N. J. 
Located in the Pine Belt. A family hotel, notable for a 
i uiet air of domesticity and a homelike atmosphere, 
looklet. Open October 15th to May 15th. 
E. E. SPANGENBERG. Manager. 
New York. 
W. J. O’Neil, proprietor, and Hammond, guide; good board and 
first-class accommodations. Good bird dogs and hounds. 
Centerville Station, Sullivan Co., N. Y. 
North Carolina. 
HUNTER’S LODGE! 
Good Quail Shooting! 
Choice accommodations for ladies and gentlemen. 
Best Chef south of Potomac 
Terms: $3.00 per day; $75.00 per month. 
GEN’L FRANK A. BOND - - Buies, N. C. 
PINE TOP LODGE 
Halifax County - North Carolina 
Finest quail country in the Old North State. Thousands 
of acres and tens of thousands of quail. Guides, dogs, 
teams, telegraph and telephone. Fine automobile roads 
Leave New York at night and arrive at Halifax follow 
ing noon. Bring your wife and have rare sport in the 
Sunny South. Till Nov. 1st, address C. & L. P. Blow, 
at Virginia Beach. After Nov. 1, at Tillery, Halifax 
County, N. C. 
come a common article of food in the homes of 
Kansas people, and thus furnish a cheap, whole¬ 
some and delicious article of food. We believe 
that the fish hatchery can in a few years be made 
to return to the people of the State fish food 
enough to more than pay for the cost of the 
entire plant each year. 
Crimes of the Crayfish. 
Very beautiful are the photographs which 
illustrate the article on the crayfish in the No¬ 
vember number of the Zoological Society Bulle¬ 
tin. This is an Aquarium number, and is full of 
interesting material, having to do with marine 
and fresh water life. 
The article on the crayfish possesses a 
peculiar interest for readers in the South where 
the crayfish or crawfish does considerable dam¬ 
age by boring into dams or dykes of earth, caus¬ 
ing leaks which may produce extensive damage. 
In certain localities it is a serious menace to the 
farmer because it does much damage to crops. 
The crayfish is of some value as an article 
of food, yet though used in some quantities in 
Louisiana, Oregon and Wisconsin, the money 
value of the crayfish caught is not large. 
The crayfish is nocturnal in habits, but some 
species go about a good deal in the day time. 
It is, however, at night and in rainy, showery 
weather that they chiefly go abroad, and it is at 
such times that they work the greatest injury to 
crops in the South. In certain clay lands of 
Mississippi and Alabama it is stated that it is 
impossible to raise any crops with profit. The 
animals inhabit the heavy gumbo soil which is 
full of water, and under which there is a layer 
of sandstone, impermeable to water. Over quite 
a stretch of country, estimated at not less than 
a thousand square miles, the crayfish do so much 
damage to the crops as to prevent, to a large 
extent, the successful raising of cotton and corn. 
Their depredations are committed immediately 
after the plant appears above the ground, and 
at this time large fields of young cotton have 
been destroyed in a single night. The damage 
to the corn is not so severe as to the cotton. If 
a cotton field be examined after a raid made by 
crayfish, it will be seen that they tear away the 
tender sprouts and carry them to their burrows. 
At the mouth of a single burrow a dozen entire 
leaves have been found, and of course these are 
only bits that are dropped by the creatures in 
its traveling. 
So numerous are the crayfish in this region 
that 8 ,ooo to 12,000 holes to an acre are some¬ 
times found there. 
After the destruction of their first crop the 
farmers are likely to replant, and if the weather 
is dry, they may secure a fair stand. The worst 
weather for the farmer is when frequent rains 
occur soon after planting. Then the crayfish are 
much abroad, and the chances for a crop are 
poor, hut in dry weather the plants may develop 
so rapidly as to be out of danger when the wet 
weather comes. 
The Bureau of Biological Survey has made 
some investigation into the damage done by 
these little animals, and an account by Dr. A. K. 
Fisher, Assistant in charge of Economic Investi¬ 
gation, is full of interest. Dr. Fisher recom¬ 
mends, as the best means of getting rid of these 
swarms of injurious crustaceans, killing them 
when they leave their holes. They can be killed 
KenneL 
Spratt’s Puppy Biscuits 
Spratt’s Plain Puppy Meal 
THE STANDARD WEANING FOOD 
Spratt’s Pepsinated Puppy Meal 
FOR DELICATE PUPPIES 
None genuine unless stamped thus X 
Send stamp for “Dog Culture” 
SPRATT’S PATENT LIMITED 
Factory and Chief Offices at NEWARK. N. J, 
Book on Dog Diseases 
AND HOW TO FEED. 
Mailed FREE to any address by the author. 
H. CLAY GLOVER, D.V.S. 
118 W. 31st Street NEW YORK 
Did You Ever Lose a Dog? 
Let us insure you with our wide line of name on collars. 
Here is No. 50 
prepaid for 
$1.50 
We are headquarters for everything in leather for the 
dog, from boots to muzzle. Drop us a card for our 
booklet showing a line of specialties for the sports¬ 
man, it will interest you. We ship by return mail. 
GLOVER SPECIALTY CO. Guntersville. Ala. 
and l sin. wide 
75 cents 
FOR SALE. 
C hampion Lake Dell Damsel and Endcliffe Briarwood 
(English name, Fountain Ranger), both winners and 
world beaters Addreft DR. L. C. TONEY, 204 Currier 
Block, Los Angeles, Cal. 
POINTERS FOR SALE 
The two thoroughly broken pointers, “Maxim’s Dan” 
and “Midkiff Jennie,” registered. These two dogs have 
had hundreds of birds killed over them; they know their 
business perfectly, work close to gun in cover, and range 
out wide in open; require little or no handling. An ideal 
brace, but will sell singly if desired, 
MIDKIFF KENNELS, Dallas, Pa. 
DOGS FOR SALE. 
Do you want to buy a dog or pup of any kind? If so, 
send for list and prices of all varieties. Always on hand. 
OXFORD KENNELS, 
35 North Ninth St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
FOR SALE. 
B., W. & T. English Setter Dog, whelped Jan. 11, 1912. 
No pedigree, but bred from pure-bred working field dog 
of quality. It’s the last one of the litter I will dispose of. 
C. J. FUITRMAN, Hanover, Pa. 
OVER 100 AMERICAN GAME BIRDS 
Pictured in Natural Colors 
“GAME BIRDS” is the only book, regardless of size or price 
that describes and shows in color all our game birds. The plates 
are made by the very best process by the very best engravers 
from accurate water color paintings by Chester A. Reed, S. B., 
whose books on Nature Subjects are standard and have had 
much larger sale than any others.' '-"2 • 
SPORTSMEN This book will identify any game bird you 
—i ii see or kill, and will also show just what your 
brother spor tsm en in other parts of the country are getting for 
game er »_ 'Si 
Finely printed on heavy paper; bound in an unique reproduction 
of snake skin leather; neatly boxed. You need it yourself and it 
will make an ideal gift book for your friends. Order quickly, as 
this first large edition will soon be exhausted. 
Only 65c. Postpaid 
['Colored booklet of Nature Subjects Free. 
CHAS. K. REED 3 Chadwick Bldg.. Worcester, Mass. 
