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America; there were seven of us there the year 
round, rearing wild ducks and pheasants. We 
have had as many as 450 brooding hens on 
pheasants’ and ducks’ eggs at one time, 7,000 
eggs hatching, so you see that they rear plenty of 
game though they kill large quantities in one day. 
“Mr. and Mrs. E. A. le Gendre Starkie are this 
week entertaining a large shooting party at Hunt- 
iroyde, among whom are her Excellency Countess 
Schulenburg, Count Schulenburg, Marquis de 
Jancourt, Count Francis de Cas'tega, Earl and 
Countess of Orford, Lady Dorothy Walpole, Lord 
and Lady Crawshaw, Major and Mrs. Jary, 
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Vickers, and Mr. and 
Mrs. Edward Blount. There were to be three 
days’ shooting, and on Tuesday excellent sport 
was enjoyed among the pheasants and wild 
ducks. The weather was wonderfully fine for this 
period of the year. The six guns bagged a total 
of 1,351 wild ducks and pheasants, which con¬ 
stituted a ‘record’ for the first day. Wednesday 
was again fine, and excellent sport was enjoyed 
among the pheasants, over four hundred being 
bagged. To-day the party will shoot over Pendle 
Hill.” G. A. SIMPSON. 
LE TOUQUET ARCHERY MEETING. 
An archery meeting is held annually at La 
Touquet, France, attended chiefly by English men 
and women. There are probably as many arch¬ 
ers in France as in Great Britain, but they shoot 
•short ranges, which do not interest the English. 
'The French are winners at the short distances. 
This year the meeting was held June 24, 25, 26, 
.and I copy from the London Field of July 4 a 
Lew of the leading scores, in the different rounds 
shot. 
The flight shooting will attract general atten¬ 
tion. At the meeting in 1913 Mr. Ingo Simon 
shot a Turkish arrow with a Turkish bow a dis¬ 
tance of 459 yds. 8 in. This year he shot 462 
yds. 9 in. 
The competitions were numerous; on the first 
and second days the Hereford. National and 
York Rounds were shot, and on the third day an 
interesting match was shot against a team of 
Frenchmen belonging to the Societe La Renais¬ 
sance d’Arras. The distance shot was 28 metres, 
and each competitor shot thirty arrows. The 
English ladies’ team had the honor of shooting 
first; they shot one arrow each, which the judge, 
Colonel Hill, scored, and the captain, Mrs. Day, 
walked to the butt and collected the arrows; they 
then shot again till each had shot ten arrows. 
The Englishmen’s team shot next, the French 
team shot last. After the first ten arrows the 
scores were added, and the Frenchmen made 125, 
the Englishmen 103, and the ladies 100. At the 
end of the next ten arrows the ladies gained 
four points on the Frenchmen, but in the last 
round the Frenchmen shot with more confidence, 
and made 188, and won by 83 points. M. De- 
fossez made top score, 124; Mr. Nesham was 
next with 96. The butt was of massive construc¬ 
tion, the straw being placed end on to the ar¬ 
rows, and about 18 in. thick and compressed. 
Wooden screens were placed at about 9 ft. inter¬ 
vals from the standing mark to the target, and 3 
ft. apart, so that the competitors shot down an 
avenue of boards, which protected spectators and 
scorers from badly shot arrows. The targets 
were made of square cardboard, marked five 
rings, counting 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, the outer ring hav¬ 
ing an 8 in. radius, while the inner ring had 1V2 
in. radius. 
Mr. Ingo Simon beat his former long shot by 
3 yds., and shot a distance of 462 yds. 9 in. 
The weather conditions were not ideal for flight 
shooting, as the light wind was shifty and varia¬ 
ble. He used one of the Turkish bows, pulling 
80 lb., and Turkish flight arrows, and drew the 
string by placing it behind an ivory ring, which 
he wore on his thumb, and tucked his thumb into 
his first finger. The next best shot was made 
by Mr. Godman, who used a yew bow and shot 
240 yds. Miss M. Plummer shot 173 yds. 1 ft. 
Mr. H. P. Nesham was presented with a pair 
of silver candlesticks for arranging the meeting. 
Prizes were given away in the Hermitage Hotel 
on Friday evening by Mme. La Comtesse d’Alcan- 
tara, 
who received 
a bouquet of 
roses. 
DOUBLE 
NATIONAL ROUND. 
60 Yards 
50 Yards 
Total 
H. S. 
II. S. 
II. S. 
Mrs. 
T. Godden. 
43—209 
107—493 
Mrs. 
Appleyard . 
. 67—305 
41—187 
108—493 
Mrs. 
C. K. Phillips . 
. 32—270 
42—218 
104—488 
Mrs. 
Hepburn . 
42—196 
104—472 
Miss 
Fenton . 
37-157 
106—438 
DOUBLE 
HEREFORD ROUND. 
80 Yards 60 Yards so Yards Total 
H. S. H. S. H. S. H. S. 
Mrs. E. H. Day . 83— 319 84—412 36—174 203—905 
Miss H. Williams. 72— 330 77—349 40—170 189—849 
Mrs. Boddam-W'het'ham.. 82—362 65—289 34—156—181—807 
Miss C. P. Foster . 58—276 61—289 20—146 147—711 
DOUBLE YORK ROUND. 
100 Yards 80 Yards 60 Yards Total 
H. S. H. S. H. S. H. S. 
Mr. C. K. Phillips. 56—240 69—297 44—242 169—779 
Capt. G. Chapman. 64—268 61—279 35—179 160—726 
Mr. H. P. Nesham . 43—203 60—276—41—227 154—706 
Mr. J. Penrose . 59—189 57—229 46—220 162—638 
28 METRE CONTEST. 
French Team. 
L. De Fossey.124 M. L. Bouchez . 83 
M. A. Dureux. 94 M. H. Muyl .42 
M. L. Pontieux.92 
ENGLISH LADIES’ TEAM. 
Miss H. Williams. 88 Mrs. Appleyard 
Mrs. Boddam-Whetham. 81 Miss Prince ... 
Mrs. Day . 76 
ENGLISHMEN’S TEAM. 3=2 
Mr. H. P. Nesham.96 Major Pole-Swart. 58 
Lt.-Col. Tickell, D.S.O. 72 Mr. J. Penrose . 4; 
Mr. C. K. Philips. 61 
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EDWARD B. WESTON. 
MIGRATORY BIRD LAW. 
Kansas City, Mo., July 24. 
Not satisfied with the slight change made by 
the department of agriculture in the migratory 
bird regulations effecting Missouri and Kansas 
and part of Iowa and Nebraska, members of the 
Interstate Sportsmen’s Protective Association, 
which enlists duck hunters in the states men¬ 
tioned and also Illinois and Oklahoma, is plan¬ 
ning to test the constitutionality of the Weeks- 
McLean law. 
The association is positively against the “game 
hog.” It favors limiting the day’s kill to even 
ten, but under the present Federal law there will 
be little or no duck shooting for sportsmen along 
the Missouri and Kaw rivers and on lakes in 
Missouri and Kansas. Unfortunately Missouri 
and Kansas were placed in a zone which limits 
sportsmen to fall shooting and the climatic con¬ 
ditions are such that there is little duck shooting 
in the fall of the year. The birds pass through 
this section in a very few days, due to the fine, 
warm, clear weather at that time, and are in the 
South by January 1. 
Last year an effort was made to test the law. 
Many hunters killed ducks on the rivers and 
lakes in the spring and did not pay attention to 
a limit because they were violating the law any¬ 
way. They tried to get an arrest, but the Fed¬ 
eral authorities refused to make one. Then they 
took the matter up with the department of agri¬ 
culture, through Senator James A. Reed and 
others and the acting secretary of agriculture, 
promised that the regulations would be so modi¬ 
fied that they would conform to the Missouri 
state law, realizing that only spring shooting is 
good in this section—meaning February and 
March. The change, however, merdy included 
January in the open season, which change might 
as well not have been made, as there never is 
duck shooting here until about February 1. 
There are 1,500 members of the protective as¬ 
sociation and they are willing to obey the law to 
the letter, no matter what the bag limit may be, 
if they are allowed some spring shooting. They 
3 re not “game hogs” and would be willing, no 
doubt, to have the season cut to one month in the 
spring—say March—which certainly would mean 
less killing of ducks than in former years. 
But they have about given up in their fight to 
have the regulations so modified that they can 
have spring shooting and now declare they will 
shoot in the spring and test the constitutionality 
of the law providing they cannot have a mem¬ 
ber who shot last spring arrested now and have 
a test case made. They claim that the law is not 
constitutional, and cite the decision of Judge 
Trieber, of Arkansas, who held that the law was 
unconstitutional. 
The protective association has about $1,000 in 
the tre.asury and the members are ready for any 
sort of an assessment that is necessary in order 
to fight the case. 
EDWARD W. COCHRANE. 
DOG DIFFICULTIES IN ALASKA. 
When a man in any country acquires a dog his 
troubles increase two-fold, but the possessor of a 
dog team in Alaska becomes a veritable Job 
among dog owners. I11 addition to the ordinary 
visitations he is obliged to be continually on the 
alert to administer first aid to the injured when¬ 
ever his animals, looking like animated pin cush¬ 
ions, come limping home from an encounter with 
a porcupine. 
It takes time, unlimited patience and a very 
strong pair of pinchers to rid a dog of porcupine 
quills. Every quill must be removed, as even a 
small one will work its way straight through the 
head or body, and should it pierce a vital organ 
the result is the loss of a valuable dog. 
Occasionally it is necessary to tie the animal 
down or give chloroform before beginning to 
draw the quills, but as a rule each dog comes up 
in his turn, looking as shame-faced and apolo¬ 
getic as a victim of “the morning after.” Per¬ 
haps a porcupine hunt, to the canine mind, is in 
the nature of a periodical “spree,” for every Alas¬ 
kan dog is taught to avoid this rodent. For weeks 
at a time they will adhere strictly to this teach¬ 
ing, but finally there comes a night when dog na¬ 
ture can resist no more, and the entire team, 
barking joyously, rushes off into the woods to 
hunt the slow-moving little creature with quills. 
Boswell Camp, No. 77, United Sportsmen of 
Pennsylvania, has made public its list of appoin¬ 
tees for fire wardens for that district and has 
sent it to the Forestry Commission. Other camps 
in Cambria and Somerset counties have not yet 
announced their appointees, lmt will do so in a 
short time. R. W. PHILLIPS. 
