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FOREST AND STREAM 
HUNTERS’ LODGE! 
Good Quail Shooting. Choice Accommodations 
for Ladies and Gentlemen 
BEST CHEF SOUTH OF THE POTOMAC 
Not a cheap place 
GENERAL FRANK A. BOND - - - Buies, North Carolina 
CURRITUCK DUCKS. 
A private duck club in the heart of Currituck 
Sound will take this season a limited number of 
outside Gunners by the day or week. Season 
opens November 1st. Apply to 
JOSEPH S. MELSON, Supt., 
Waterlily, Currituck County, 
North Carolina. 
A SECURE 
mniER RESORT 
^ You Cannot Winter in 
ifr' European Health Resorts ! 
^ a GO TO 
BARBADOS 
(British West Indies) 
and enjoy an ideal Winter climate in perfect security. The 
days are genial, the nights balmy. The temperature is more 
equable than that of the Riviera resorts. 
Splendid Scenery, Economical Living, Sports, Clubs, Golf, 
Fishing, Lawn Tennis, Motoring, Driving. Write to 
The Morse Inti. Agency, 30 th St. & 4 th Ave., N.Y. City or to 
Lewis W. Clemens, F. R. C. I., 1392 King St., West, Montreal. 
NEW SPRUCE CABIN INN. 
Finest location in Pocono Mountains. Shooting sea¬ 
son opens October 15th. Grouse or Pheasant, and wood¬ 
cock. Squirrels, hare, and rabbits in season. Rooms en 
suite and with private bath accommodations for fami¬ 
lies. Bowling, pool, tennis, golf, livery, saddle horses, 
garage. Illustrated booklet. Inn closes December 1st. 
W. J. & M. D. PRICE, 
Canadenis, Pa. Cresco Sta., D. L. & W. R. R. 
HUNTERS’ RETREAT 
Good Rabbit and Deer Shooting. For particulars 
write N. B. BROWN, Bethel, Sullivan Co., N.Y. 
BEST FISHING AND BOATING 
Surf bathing. Bay Bird, Meadow Hens. Ducks dur¬ 
ing open season. Restful. Good table. Booklets. Ad¬ 
dress A. II. G. Mears, Wachapreague, Eastern Shore, Va. 
LIVE PHEASANTS 
In large or small quantities for stocking game 
preserves. Now very cheap owing to war. Prices 
include all freight to and live arrival guaranteed 
at any of the Eastern ports of the United States. 
T. CARTTON HUNTING, 
The Gaybird Pheasant Farm, 
Great Missenden, Bucks, England. 
RAINBOW TROUT 
Thrive fine in most of the Ozark streams (State Mis¬ 
souri) also in ponds fed through these waters. Owners 
of large estates, especially in this State, would make a 
profitable investment in stocking same with fry raised 
on my trout farm. For particulars address: August 
Laubh, Proprietor of the Clear Spring Hatchery, Floyd, 
Missouri. 
From the Farmer to the Pipe 
Tobacco in the natural leaf 
Finest selected, ripe Kentucky leaf tobacco. 
Aged in open .barns. On the 'trail, in camp, at 
home, it’s the only pure smoking tobacco. Packed 
the day your order is received. Four pounds 
postpaid for $1.00. 
C. J. PARKER, SlaughtervHle, Ky. 
long as human nature remains as it is we can¬ 
not expect that the bag limit is going to be 
strictly observed. That law is going to be con¬ 
travened and transgressed pretty much all the 
time, and so the local non-sale law is trans¬ 
gressed, and we are left to the shortening of 
the season as the only way, and I am afraid 
that even this will be ineffective. I have shot 
a great many birds in my life, and as Secre¬ 
tary of State Bryan said to me when I was 
discussing the treaty with him: “Yes, my sym¬ 
pathy is entirely with you, but we don’t want 
the game 'birds all to die natural deaths, we 
want to eat one once in a while.” And I agreed 
to that, and I don’t want to come to condi¬ 
tions in this country su'ch as they have in 
Europe. I know what it is to enjoy the pleas¬ 
ure of shooting. I was 'brought up with a gun 
in my hand, and I still like to go hunting, but 
within the last few years, whether it is due to 
age or not, I do know that a change has come 
over me, and I prefer to see the living birds in 
the woods to killing them if I can’t do both. 
And I want to impress upon you commission¬ 
ers just one more thought. This subject in¬ 
volves, as you know when you come to enforce 
your laws, four or five different Interests, the 
sportsman, the gun-maker, the dog-fancier, and 
the sporting goods man, and you will find them 
all in the legislative halls when you come to 
secure legislation for the protection of game, 
and if you don’t find them there they will be 
there, and the less you see of them the more 
effective they will be upon legislation, and the 
one thing for you to hope and try to do is to 
inspire these men with the fact that their in¬ 
terests are precisely those of the farmer. I 
think the farmer is very fast coming to a 
realization of the importance of protecting the 
birds. I think you are winning as far as they 
are concerned; but it is of just as much conse¬ 
quence to the gun-maker, the dog-fancier, and 
the sporting goods salesman that the birds should 
be protected as it is to the farmer, because if 
something isn’t done it won’t he a great many 
years 'before there will he no market for the 
gun, dog, hunting jacket, or cartridge, because 
there will be no use for them. 
And there is still one other subject that if 
I had time I would like to stay and hear you 
gentlemen discuss, and that is the comparative 
value of our local non-migratory game birds 
to the importations that we are constantly try¬ 
ing to acclimatize. It is a subject to which I 
have given some study, and in which I have 
had some little experience, and I wish that if 
there is anything published of the discussions 
at this meeting, and I sincerely hope that what 
I have to say will be eliminated, but if you 
gentlemen from your practical experience here 
do swap views as to the comparative value of 
your experience with these imported birds, I 
should 'be very glad to have a copy of it, Mr. 
President, 'because while I know the pheasant 
and the Hungarian partridge and those birds 
may in especially favorable locations 'have done 
very well, it is my belief that the native bird 
if he had had the same protection and the same 
chance that the imported birds have had would 
in the end be much more satisfactory. 
I have far exceeded my three minutes and 
I must return to the Senate. I want to say to 
you that it is a great pleasure for me to meet 
NOTICE TO SPORTSMEN! 
The f inest hunting resort on the 
Atlantic Coast for wild fowl shooting. 
Geese, ducks and brant in abundance the 
entire season. Well equipped modern club 
house located at Gull Island, Dare County, 
N. C. A thorough equipment of boats, bat¬ 
teries, live and wooden decoys. Competent 
guides. Parties may make reservation for 
hunting trip on short notice. Few shares of 
stock in the company for sale. Address: 
L. G. DANIELS or M. D. HAYMAN 
WANCHESE, N. C. 
PINE TOP LODGE KENNELS 
QUAIL, WILD TURKEY, DEER, 
DUCKS, WOODCOCK and small game 
in abundance. Unlimited territory. In 
the heart of vast pine woods this up-to- 
date Club house with all modern conve¬ 
niences and amusements, auto service, 
boating, riding and driving, dogs, horses 
and guides afford the sportsman and his 
wife an opportunity to enjoy real sport, 
without discomfort and see the South, 
while escaping the Northern winter. 
Address C. & L. P. BLOW, 
Delaware, Va. 
Battery Shooting 
Great South Bay 
Auxiliary Sloop Yacht “Ella C.” 
Capt. Win. T. Collins 
Price $12.00 Sayville, L. I. 
Deer Shooting de Luxe 
Within easy reach of New York City, 
Boston and Philadelphia, is the best deer 
shooting offered in years. If you can 
shoot, the deer is yours-if you can’t- 
well, that s another story. However, fine 
ruffed grouse and woodcock shooting is 
to be found here this year. Good board, 
camps, guides and climate. 
BEAR MOUNTAIN CAMP, 
J. M. Balderson, Prop., 
Cranberry Lake, N. Y. 
F00 Q A I P ROBINSON CRUSOE’S 
Elm OALC. ISLAND OUTDONE! 
St. Vincent Island, Fla., in the Gulf of Mexico 
containing nearly 12,000 acres of pine forest, 
fresh water lakes, grassy Savannahs, wild 
boar, native and imported India deer, wild 
pigs, wild cattle, turkey, millions of duck and 
all varieties of fish. The Island with bunga¬ 
lows, hunting lodges, yacht, boats and vehicles 
for sale. Easily protected. Many thousand 
acres of finest pine trees. For information 
inquire DR. V. M. PIERCE, 663 Main Street, 
Buffalo, N. Y. 
