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FOREST AND STREAM 
Sept. 7, 1912 
Resorts for Sportsmen. 
Maine. 
RIPOGENUS LAKE CAMPS 
HX/JVTIJVG. FISHING. *R E C H E A TI O 
A Big Country is here opened up for Sportimen just halfway down the “West Branch” 
Canoe Trip; 40 miles by steamer from Greenville to Northeast Carry; twenty miles to Ches- 
uncook by canoe, twenty miles more to camps by motor boat or canoe. Another route by 
canoe from Norcross, Maine. Another overland by team from Lilly Bay (Moosehead Lake) 
to Caribou Lake, thence by canoe or motor boat 12 miles to camps. Home Camps com¬ 
fortable with spring beds, etc. Back Camps and Lean-tos cover a great tract of 
Wilderness, for Sportsmen desiring to go far back in the wood*. Good living every¬ 
where, Grouse, Ducks and Black Bear. We guarantee to give you Trout Fishing 
that is unequalled and Moose and Deer Hunting that it unsurpassed. Choice 
of the sportiest quick water in Maine, for the stream fisherman, or the most placid of pond 
and lake fishing for those who prefer it, where brook trout rise to the fly all summer. 
RALPH BISBEE » - - Kokadfo, Maine 
BALL’S CAMPS 
Are the only up-to-the-minute camps at Grand Lake, 
where you can bring your family and get needed 
rest, as well as the best fishing in the country. 
Landlocked Salmon, Lake Trout and Brook Trout 
Camps have open fireplaces, piazzas, Kewanee Water 
System. Private baths and toilets. Sanitary plumb¬ 
ing and Blaugas lights. Write for Brochure “B,” 
giving rates and details. 
FRANK H. BALL - - Grand Lake Stream, Maine 
MACHIAS LAKE CAMPS, Ashland, Me. 
Finest July, August and September fly-fishing. Machias 
and Musquacook regions of Maine. Largest trout, togue, 
and salmon. 
Minnesota. 
MUSCALLONGE GALORE 
Over 40 lakes, accommodations for 80 guests. Bass 
and Muscallonge fishing at the door. Write for 
28 page booklet. Bus meets all trains at 
PINE CONE CAMP 
D*rset. Hubbard Covinty ... Mlrvn. 
Maryland. 
BEST BASS FISHING 
On Atl&ntic Coast 
Kent Island Narrows - - Md. 
There are reasons, ask why. Best accommodations. 
Easy of access. :: :: :: Booklet, etc. 
FISHERMANS INN 
C. J. B. MITCHELL, Prop. Chester P.O., R.D.. Md 
Newfoundland. 
NEWFOUNDLAND 
LOG CABIN HOTEL 
Spruce Brook - - - Newfoundland 
Salmon fishing. Caribou hunting. Canoeing. 
Motor boating. Lovely scenery. Every comfort, 
but no frills. Terms moderate. Guides, licenses 
and all, provided. 
-NEWFOUNDLAND — 
Do you want good SALMON and TROUT fish¬ 
ing? Or to shoot the “lordly CARIBOU? Apply 
J. R. WHITAKER, 
The Bungalow, Grand Lake, Newfoundland. 
New York. 
DEER AND BEAR 
Shooting for the big game man and plenty of partridge for the 
spread shot preferent; one night’s ride from New York City. 
In Heart of the Adirondacks 
This is the place for shooting in comfort, beds that rest you and 
food that is a joy to the inner man. 
BEAR MOUNTAIN CAMP 
J. M. BALDERSON, Proprietor 
Cranberry Lake - Wan kena P. O., N. Y. 
Property For Sale. 
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. 
For Lease—Nov. 1 to 15—Deer Season— 
FURNISHED COTTAGE. 
500 acres perfectly protected deer preserve adjoining 12,000 
acre preserve of the most exclusive hunting club in New 
York State. Lease includes service, table, guides. Prop¬ 
erty has private lake, excellent fishing. Price, $500. 
Write DEERPARK, care Forest and Stream Pub. Co. 
Advertisers will do well to keep an eye on 
Forest and Stream, which to them is one of the 
best mediums of its kind. 
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, t 
SPORTSMEN This book will identify any game bird you 
see or kill, and will also show just what your 
brother sportsmen in other parts of the country are getting for 
game.y _ 
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 soordbe exhausted. 
Only 65c. Postpaid 
Colored booklet of Nature Subjects Free. 
CHAS. K. REED 3 Chadwick Bldg., Worcester Mass. 
VALUE OF BIRDS ON THE FARM. 
BY CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 
Probably no class of birds has been more 
often misjudged or misunderstood than the birds 
of prey; in fact, the time is not long past when 
the name hawk or owl was enough to convict 
any bird. In these days, however, we are be¬ 
ginning to realize that, with a few exceptions, 
they are “among the most valuable, if not the 
most valuable birds, that wage war against the 
foes of the agriculturist.” While the smaller 
birds destroy the insect foes of the farmer, the 
hawks and owls help to hold in check the small 
animal life, which, when uncontrolled, works 
such havoc in the crops. 
It has been estimated that every hawk and 
owl in the course of a year, kills at least a 
thousand mice or their equivalent in insects. If 
each mouse, or its equivalent in insects caused 
the farmer a loss of only two cents per annum, 
this would make each hawk and owl worth at 
least twenty dollars a year to the farmer. 
For convenience we may divide the birds of 
prey into the general classes: (i) Those al¬ 
most wholly harmful, and (2) those almost 
wholly beneficial. 
In the first class, among the hawks, are the 
Cooper’s sharp-shinned and duck hawks. The 
Cooper’s and sharp-shinned are very similar in 
appearance, the sharp-shinned being simply a 
“smaller edition” of its larger cousin. These are 
the two species commonly known as “hen and 
chicken hawks,” being especially destructive in 
the poultry yard. Aside from the direct loss 
which they cause the farmer in this way, they 
also add to this loss by killing great numbers 
of the useful insect and seed-eating birds. 1 lie 
decrease of certain game birds in some localities 
can also be laid at the door of “these desperados 
in feathers.” The duck hawk being found chief¬ 
ly about large bodies of water, confines its depre¬ 
dations almost entirely to waterfowl, so it is of 
little interest to the farmer. 
One practical farmer has suggested that 
shelters which will enable chickens to escape 
from hawks can be easily made by putting 
forked sticks in the ground and over all a layer 
of brush a foot or eighteen inches from the 
ground.” 
Among the most common of the beneficial 
hawks may be placed the marsh hawk, the West¬ 
ern red-tailed hawk and the sparrow hawk. 
While these birds may occasionally invade the 
poultry yard or destroy birds, the harm done in 
this way is very little compared with the good 
which they do in the destruction of injurious 
rodents and insects. 
The following quoted from Dr. A. K. Fisher 
of the U. S. Biological Survey serves to show 
the economic value of the marsh hawk. “It is 
probably the most active and determined foe of 
meadow mice and ground squirrels, destroying 
greater numbers of these pests than any other 
species. * * * It preserves an immense quantity 
of grain, thousands of fruit trees and innumer¬ 
able nests of song birds by destroying the ver¬ 
min which eat the grain, girdle the trees and de¬ 
vour the eggs and young of the. birds.” The 
distinguishing mark of this hawk is the large 
white patch at the base of the tail above, which 
shows very plainly when the bird flies. 
The western red-tailed hawk is probably 
one of the best known of all the hawks. Un- 
