Aug. 24, 1912 
FOREST AND STREAM 
255 
For Sale. 
GAME BIRDS 
Hungarian Partridges, Quail, Ring-neck Pheasants, Wild 
Turkeys, Capercailzie, Black Game, Wild Ducks, Decoys. 
Beautifnl Swans, Fancy Pheasants, Peafowl, Cranes, 
Storks, Ornamental Ducks and Geese. 
"Everything in the bird line ^ 
from a Canary to an Ostrich. " 
I 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 
R .. F .. Darien, Conn. 
RAINBOW TROUT 
are well adapted to Eastern waters. Try stock¬ 
ing with some of the nice yearlings or fry from 
•ur 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- 
mouth black bass commercially in the United States. Vig¬ 
orous young bass in various sizes, ranging from advanced 
fry to 3 and 4 inch fingerlings for stocking purposes. 
Waramaug Small-Mouth Black Bass Hatchery. 
Correspondence invited. Send for Circulars. Address 
HENRY W. BEEMAN - - New Preston, Conn. 
DDAAV TDAIIT °f a 'I ages for stocking brooks 
DnUvA 1IWU 1 an( j lakes. Brook trout eggs 
in any quantity. Warranted delivered anywhere in fine 
condition. Correspondence solicited. 
THE PLYMOUTH ROCK TROUT CO., 
Plymouth, Mass. 
FOR FALL DELIVERY 
Best home-bred stock of Pheasants and Waterfowl, raised 
here under the best conditions. Prices reasonable and 
quoted on application. 
J. C. PHILLIPS, Windyknob Farm, Wenham, Mass. 
Brook Trout For Sale 
In splendid condition. Apply 
DRUMLIN TROUT HATCHERY, Barneveld, N. Y. 
Many of our readers live in small towns 
on rural postal routes where mail order buy¬ 
ing is understood. 
Property for Sale. 
TIMBERLAND ON LAKE 
AND RIVER. 
Eight thousand acres of timberland, with several miles 
of lake and river front, situated on a large lake in the 
center of the game and fishing country of Northern and 
Central Maine. This tract of land would make an ideal 
reservation for a club, or for anyone desiring an invest¬ 
ment in timberlands. For information, address 
Lock Box No. 11, Auburndale, Mass. 
A RARE INVESTMENT 
Safer than Bonds and Mortgages 
Four hundred and eighty acres of beautiful level land 
in Keith County, Nebraska. Rich black loam, six feet 
deep, which produces all kinds of big agricultural crops. 
Forty bushels of wheat to the acre, and all other crops 
in proportion. These lands are located eight miles from 
the county seat, and six miles from the thriving, bustling 
town of Brule, on the main line of the Union Pacific 
Railroad. The town has church, high school, hotels, 
all kinds of stores, grain elevator, etc., etc. I will also 
sell 160 acres adjoining Brule, fronting on the Union 
Pacific Railroad, under cultivation, with all improvements. 
The climate is unsurpassed for all lung or throat dif¬ 
ficulties. Elevation, 3,200 feet. 
For terms and particulars address 
E, H. BARTON, 32 Bank St., Batavia, N. Y. 
casting for trout I know little more than to let 
this day’s knowledge in some measure prepare 
me against too great a shock at to-morrow’s sur¬ 
prise. He who knows more has forever lost 
much of the eternal and perennial fascination of 
the game. Furthermore, if I am to learn more 
of the habits of trout as an index to the best 
methods of their capture with the fly, I want to 
learn it myself, unaided by books or masters, and 
in this I believe I have the vast majority of the 
great army of anglers with me. ‘ Hysterical 
babbling” was phrased not in condemnation of 
what has been written, but in fear of the ava¬ 
lanche that apparently is coming. “Anglers are 
not an intolerant folk.” In proof of this the 
bilious one admits that we have all been surfeited 
for long-suffering years with a mass of “angling 
inanity.” How long now shall the dry-fly Cata- 
line be permitted to abuse our patience? 
Frankly, what I fear is a commercializing 
by editors generally of the dry-fly idea as some¬ 
thing new—a fad to be capitalized—and upon 
which to found excuse for continuing and in¬ 
creasing the volume of this already swollen 
stream of angling inanity. I believe I see the 
beginnings of this very movement in progress, 
and I believe that with the vast majority of 
thinking anglers my protest will be popular. Is 
it not enough to have told us that flies may be 
fished dry and to have given us the deer tallow 
and paraffin hints? Isn't anything more simply 
detail of technique, which, if unchecked, rapidly 
runs to fads, fancies and a certain Pharisaical 
and un-angler-like intolerance? And why rob us 
of the joy of acquiring such technique as we 
may by hard experience obtain for ourselves 
obiter? And why be so dogmatic about it all? 
Angling writers, advocates of the dry- and wet- 
fly alike, are rapidly robbing us of one of the 
greatest joys of life—differences of opinion—by 
their uncompromisingly flat-footed statements. 
If a man tells me I must use a ten-foot rod and 
get out a long line in dry-fly work, I brand it as 
buncombe—I know better. I once took a pound 
and three-quarter trout on a five-foot bait rod, 
using a dry-fly and a “fly” cast, standing behind 
a tree on the same side of the stream as the 
bank under which he lay. It was the only way 
I could get at him without being seen, after three 
days of maneuvering. Similar instances might be 
multiplied almost ad libitum. 
And from the intolerant to the pharisaical 
pose is but a short jump. One of the most re¬ 
freshing things that has appeared in recent years 
was Charlie Zaring’s title, “I Fish for Fish.” In 
sober truth, we all do, and we should stop cloak¬ 
ing the fact. There is not a word that Mr. Gill 
says (Fores't and Stream, July 27) about the 
rare conclusion of the “dry-fly story,” which is 
not equally true if he leave off the prefix “dry.” 
All waters, by the way, are not adapted to the 
use of the dry-fly, so that the man who deliber¬ 
ately discards all of his “wet” flies advertises 
himself extravagantly foolish. 
The very basic argument most commonly 
used in favor of the dry-fly is that where con¬ 
ditions fit, it is a “killing lure.” Why then is not 
Dr. Breck right in sticking to the wet-fly for use 
in the dark-colored waters of the North Woods, 
very few of which even in spots “indicate” the 
use of the dry-fly? It is not the manner in which, 
but the reckless and ruthless number of fish of 
any and all sizes taken that justifies so gross an 
epithet as “fish-hog.” Ralph Bisbee. 
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 Canal 
Street, New York. 
Please mention “Forest and Stream.’’ 
SAVE YOUR TROPHIES 
Write _for Illustrated Catalogue 
“Heads and Horns” 
It gives directions for preparing and preserving Skins, Antlers, 
etc. Also prices for Heads and Rugs, Birds and Fish, and all 
kinds of work in Taxidermy. 
Ward’s Natural Science Establishment 
ROCHESTER. N. Y. 
ROWLAND, 
TAXIDERMIST, 
A specialty in mounting- Moose, Elk, Caribou and Deer 
heads. Call and examine work. 
Mo, 182 SIXTH AVENUE, 
Tel. 4205 Chelsea, Near 13th St. NEW YORK 
Mount Your Own Birds, Animals, Etc. 
My recipe “How to Mount Without Skinning” will save 
you many dollars. 25 cents for full information. 
CHESTER A. LAMB, Grand Rapids, Mich., Dept. 3. 
Wants and Exchangee. 
OLD TIME PISTOLS WANTED 
I will purchase any of the following American-made re¬ 
volvers: Alsop, Butterfield, Baily, Bliss & Goodyear, 
Cochran, Crispin, Colt’s Dragoon, Colt’s Walker, Colt’s 
(stamped Pat. Arms. Mfg. Co., Paterson, N. T.), Ells, 
Freeman, Hart, Joslyn, Leavitt, Libeau, Le Mat, May¬ 
nard, Nepperian, Porter, Pliers, Plant, Pond, Pecare & 
Smith, Pettingill, Rupertus, Walch, Whitney ring trig¬ 
ger, Warner. Also all kinds of American-made pistols 
with hammer underneath barrel, American-made flint¬ 
lock horse pistols, duelling pistols in pairs; any pistols 
stamped C. S. or C. S. A. If veu have any of these for 
sale, give full description and price. 
T. H. PARRY, care Parry Mfg. Co., Indianapolis, Ind. 
WANTED 
To buy 5,000 brook trout, 5 to 6 inches long, delivered at 
Kildare, Franklin Co., N. Y. Write, giving price deliv¬ 
ered to J. S. Ehrich, Kildare Club, Franklin Co., N. Y. 
WANTED: LIVE CRANES, HERONS, SWANS, GEESE, 
DUCKS, LOONS, SHORE BIRDS, GAME BIRDS, Etc. 
When you have any of these birds, please write, stating 
variety, number, condition and price. I do not make 
offers. I am the oldest established and largest exclu¬ 
sive dealer in land and water birds in America. Birds 
bought and sold from all parts of the world. 
G. D. TILLEY, Naturalist, Darien, Connecticut. 
Chas. D. Barney Co. 
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