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FOREST AND STREAM 
Oct. 12, 1912 
Victories are 
Proof Positive 
of the 
Hunter ‘‘ One Trigger V 
Success 
THE world’s shotgun record on double 
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At the Rocky Mountain Handicap, Denver, 
Colorado, September 10 - 14 , the phenomenal 
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96 OUT OF 50 PAIRS OF TARGETS 
was made by Wm. Ridley, an Iowa sports¬ 
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It represents twenty-two years of inventions, 
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one nail out of his foot as a souvenir for my 
hours of planning. But I was not to be dis¬ 
heartened by such work and kept right at him, 
following him day after day, but with no suc¬ 
cess. I tried the scheme of harnessing a live 
pickerel in the water, and setting traps around 
it, but this also failed to draw the old fellow to 
destruction. I tried every way, shape and man¬ 
ner of procedure at my command, and finally 
allowing myself beaten, when early one morning 
in making the rounds of my line, imagine my 
unspeakable surprise upon finding that cunning 
old murderer caught up to the body on a fore 
leg in one of my muskrat traps, which I had 
taken not the least care to conceal, save for a 
few bits of grass scattered over it. There he 
stood, snarling and leaping around. In a nerv¬ 
ous excitement I got up close enough, and wast¬ 
ing no time, killed him with one shot from the 
.22, for I was taking no chances. This will just 
go to show that wisdom is not always a rigid 
stand-by, while in some cases the instinct of 
an animal may be sharpened to the point of 
human intelligence, at other times it is woe¬ 
fully lacking and irresponsible. I somehow 
hated to catch the battle-scarred fellow this way, 
but such is fate. 
BUGS AND BIRDS AND SCHOOL 
CHILDREN. 
“At 6 o’clock one July morning I stood on 
the campus of the University of Tennessee near 
asemi-circle of twenty-five school teachers, whose 
eyes were riveted on a scene of slaughter go¬ 
ing on but a few feet from them,” says a writer 
in the Craftsman. “For five minutes we scarce¬ 
ly moved. During this time thirty-two speci¬ 
mens of animal life had been swept out of ex¬ 
istence. 
“The perpetrator of this slaughter was a 
creature known to science as the Spizella soci- 
alis. Ordinary people call it the chipping 
sparrow. Its victims were small insects. The 
teachers were amazed that the bird could find 
so many of these choice morsels within so short 
a time and so small a space. So the instructor 
held the watch while the twenty-five teachers 
took part in a bug hunting contest. When 
time was called one student had a credit of 
fourteen, another sixteen, a third nineteen, 
and a tall young woman in glasses proudly ex¬ 
hibited a harvest of twenty-one insects. 
“For years the Department of Agriculture 
has been employing trained naturalists to in¬ 
vestigate the damage done to growing crops 
by insects. As a result the Department ha.-, 
stated that about one-tenth of the entire agri¬ 
cultural and horticultural products of the 
United States is annually a total loss through 
the ravages of insects. To combat these tre¬ 
mendous yearly losses a wide variety of arti¬ 
ficial agencies have been evolved in the form 
of liuqid sprays, and to-day laborers putting 
these methods into operation is a common 
sight. 
“Insects multiply so rapidly that all natural 
means for their destruction should also be en¬ 
couraged. A Canadian entomologist states that 
the progeny of a single pair of common Colo¬ 
rado potato beetles if allowed to increase with¬ 
out molestation would in one summer number 
over sixty millions. Facts like this render im¬ 
portant the discoveries by another group of 
Government specialists who have been study¬ 
ing the daily life of our native wild birds. 
These experts have come forward with state¬ 
ments almost as astounding as those produced 
by the entomologists. They tell us that of the 
1,200 kinds of birds found in North America 
fully three-fifths depend almost wholly upon a 
liet of insects, and that there are comparatively 
few kinds which do not turn to insects for at 
least a portion of their food. 
“Some time ago a New England gentleman 
became so impressed by the frequency with 
which a pair of robins visited their nest with 
food for the young that his curiosity was awak¬ 
ened to learn more of the food consuming pos¬ 
sibilities of the four nestlings. The day the off- 
springs_ left their cradle he temporarily took 
possession of them. Calling to his aid some 
friends who kindly undertook to dig fishworms 
for him, he proceeded to feed these baby 
robins all they cared to eat between daylight and 
dark. 
“Lie found to his unutterable surprise that 
these little birds consumed in one day food to 
the amount of their own weight and 56 per 
cent, additional. If the average size man were 
to eat at this rate it would require about 
seventy pounds of beef and eight gallons of 
water daily. Upon reaching the adult form the 
robins probably did not partake of food so 
greedily, but the incident serves to illustrate 
THIS PICTURE GRATIS 
JOHN PELL. 
The above picture of the immortal John 
Peel, framed and glazed, will be presented 
free to all new subscribers to “The County 
Gentleman & Land & Water,” England’s 
leading weekly illustrated sporting paper. 
The picture measures 11 in. x 7L2 in. 
(frame 17 in. x 12 in.). The original was 
painted by Mr. Joseph Simpson, R. B. A., 
from old photographs and prints of the 
famous huntsman. It is said to be the finest 
representation of John Peel ever published, 
and is worthy of a place in every sports¬ 
man’s home. 
The subscription to “The County Gentle¬ 
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payable in advance, for which the paper will 
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