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FOREST AND STREAM 
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. 
FOR SALE. 
ROBINSON CRUSOE’S 
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. 
In the Heart of Game Country 
On the Indian River via the Florida 
East Coast R. R. 
Deer, Turkey, Quail, Snipe, Duck, Black 
Bass, Channel Bass and Trout plentiful. 
What More Can You Ask. 
Trained pointers and setters, reliable 
guides. 
Hotel entirely modern, cuisine as good 
as the best, better than the rest; terms 
moderate. 
Illustrated Booklet on Request. 
COCOA HOUSE, COCOA, FLA. 
HUNTERS’ LODGE! 
Good Quail^Shooting. Choice Accommodations 
for Ladies and Gentlemen 
BEST CHEF SOUTH OF THE POTOMAC 
Not a cheap place 
CENERALTFRANK A. BOND - - - Buies, North Carolina 
WANTED—Pointers and Setters to train: game plenty. Also 
two broken dogs for sale. 
H. H. SMITH, O. K. Kennels, Marydel, Md. 
prompted by two wealthy societies began a cam¬ 
paign to stop the “slaughter” and to prevent the 
extermination of the pheasant 
To my mind the fundamental question, and 
one that has been lost sight of, is: can the kill¬ 
ing of some 3,000 pheasants by the thousands 
of hunters on Columbus Day be called a “slaugh¬ 
ter” when each hunter was limited to two birds 
and the greater portion of the hunters came 
'back with empty game pockets?” 
To the American sportsmen the English meth¬ 
od of hunting these birds would be a more 
truthful conception of the word “slaughter.” 
On English estates these birds are raised in 
large numbers by gamekeepers, who teach them 
to come and feed by call. Late in the fall shoot¬ 
ing parties are formed and these take positions 
on some small hill, while the heaters start driv¬ 
ing the birds from cover to cover causing them 
to pass directly over the gunners. 
An English friend of mine, a Mr. H.—whose 
brother owns a large sporting estate in England, 
informs me that a bag of from eight to ten 
thousand birds is not uncommon upon his 
preserve. 
A comparison of the two different methods 
of hunting this bird could 'but surely commend 
the American sport. Personally, I have no fear 
of the extermination of the pheasant in Massa¬ 
chusetts during the present open season, and I 
sincerely believe the estimate of the pheasants 
in this state given out by the commission to be 
a very conservative one. 
Regarding the extermination of the pheasant 
the Commission has been quoted “that it has 
been presented with no evidence that would 
cause it to alter its regulations,” and surely they 
are the better informed upon the question than 
those who deplore the great slaughter and they 
should be impressed with the fact that the pre¬ 
servation of this useful specie of game 'bird, and 
the promotion of the welfare of the state are 
entrusted to their zealous care. 
Since 1894, this state has been engaged in the 
propagation and liberation of the pheasant and 
through these efforts and those of private indi¬ 
viduals, and sportsmen's organizations, the state 
now contains a large stock of birds in its covers. 
During a one month of open season in this 
state in 1906 more than 3,000 male pheasants 
were killed. 
In Oregon a shooting" season of two and a half 
months was first opened in 1892 and 50,000 
were reported killed on the first day, while in 
Songs of Forest 
and Stream 
By C. T. Easton. 
A Fine Little Collection of Poems for 
the Nature Lover and Sportsman, Includ¬ 
ing the Following: 
The Trout Stream; Lines on a May¬ 
flower; The Fisherman’s Dream; A Morn¬ 
ing’s Walk; Winter; The Sanctuary; The 
Last of the Buffaloes; A Nimrod; Hunting 
the Moose; A Summer Morning; In Ar- 
cady; Wanderlust; The Fullness of Joy; 
Halcyon Days; Plovers; The Death of 
Summer; A Flower of the Wild; Ponti¬ 
ac’s Speech. 
Paper bound and moderately priced at 
I 5c. a copy. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUB. CO., 
22 Thames St., N. Y. 
1896 this state marketed 10,000 in a single month, 
and in 1913 during a month’s open season over 
40,000 male pheasants were taken. One of the 
most capable, and untiring attempts to raise 
and liberate pheasants under state auspices has 
been made here in Massachusetts, and to me 
it is a pleasure to see so many of the sports¬ 
men participating in the sport, and to know that 
at least they have a fair chance of bagging at 
least a few of these birds in a legitimate manner. 
There are a few facts for the naturelovers, 
who decry field sports to consider, death by 
their natural enemies, old age, disease, starva¬ 
tion and exposure, would ultimately be the fate 
of these birds, and I consider shooting them a 
much quicker and less painful end. 
Men whom no other form of outdoor recrea¬ 
tion could have so attracted find that a moderate 
indulgence in hunting gives them a love fo- 
nature, ensures a sufficient amount of exercise 
and greatly improves their health. 
The tameness of the pheasant has been entire¬ 
ly overestimated, I assure you. The publicity 
given to this feature of the sport I denounce 
as uncalled for, neither do I know of a single 
person who has yet obtained the season bag 
limit, or am I acquainted with such wholesale 
violations as are reported to have occurred. 
Can it be possible that because there are more 
pheasants in Essex County, than in any other 
county of the state that they should be so very 
WANTED —Pointers and Setters to train. Quail plen¬ 
tiful; first class kennels. References on application. 
JAMES L. PREVATT, Buies, North Carolina. 
ARTHUR BINNEY 
(Formerly STEWART & BINNEY) 
Naval Architect and Yacht Broker 
MASON BLDG., KILBY STREET, BOSTON, MASS. 
Cable Address: “Designer,” Boston 
DUCK SHOOTERS 
TAKE NOTICE —We have goo-d accommodations. To 
save early rising, we live aboard an auxiliary sloop 
with a cozy, welil heated cabin, anchored near feeding 
grounds; Write for dates preferred. 
ERNEST P. IIULSE, East Moriches, L. I. 
KEHWYH KOAT KURE 
Cares mange or eczema, and kills flees. $0.50 and |i.oo 
sizes sent to any address by parcels post. 
KENWYN KURE KOMPANY, 
Point Pleasant, New Jersey. 
HUNTING — SHOOTING. 
AMERICAN BIG GAME IN ITS HAUNTS—The 
book of the Boone and Crockett Club. George Bird 
Grinnell, editor. Contributors, Arthur Erwin Brown, 
James H. Kidder, W. Lord Smith, George Bird Grin¬ 
nell, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Madison Grant, Alden 
Sampson, Paul J. Dashiell, John H. Prentice, E. W. 
Nelson. Sketches of Moose Hunting, Alaska Bear, 
Mountain Sheep, Observations on game refuges, forest 
reserves, notes on the zoology, habits, habitat and 
hunting experiences with all the large game animals 
of North America. Cloth, illus., 500 pages. Postpaid, 
^AMERICAN BIG GAME HUNTING—The Book of 
the Boone and Crockett Club. Theodore Roosevelt 
and George Bird Grinnell, editors. Narratives of White 
Goat hunting. Elk hunting. Old Times in the Black 
Hills, Prong-buck coursing. Nights with the Grizzlies, 
Buffalo days, Blacktails in the Bad Lands, Notes on 
Forest reservations and game refuges. Contributors, 
Theodore Roosevelt, George Bird Grinnell, Owen 
Wister. Winthrop Chanler, Col. George S. Anderson, 
Col. Roger D. Williams, Archibald Rogers, F. C. 
Crocker, Dean Sage and others. Cloth, illus. Post¬ 
paid, $2.50. 
ART OF REVOLVER SHOOTING THE—W. Win- 
ans. The author tells everything there is to tell about 
revolvers and revolver shooting, and is always easily 
understood. Cloth, illus., 600 pages. Postpaid, $5.40. 
RHYMES OF THE STREAM AND FOREST- 
Frank Merton Buckland. A charming series of out¬ 
door verse by one who is not only a good brother 
of the angle, but a close student and lover of Nature 
in her every mood. The volume is instinct with the 
spirit of the woods and stream. The verse is of un¬ 
usual merit, and the volume, designed to stimulate a 
fly book, is a gift book or table ornament of rare 
beauty. Postpaid, $1.25. 
COMPLETE SPORTSMAN—Hoiwland Gaspar. A 
manual of practical information for the instruction, help 
and guidance of devotees of the gun. Cloth, illus., xrj 
pages. Postpaid, $1.00. 
GAME LAWS IN BRIEF—Containing all the laws 
of all the states and territories, Canada and tbe prov¬ 
inces, with notes, decisions and explanations. The brief 
is a thoroughly reliable and always handy volume, kept 
strictly revised to date. Paper. Postpaid, 25 cents. 
THE GUN AND ITS DEVELOPMENT— W. W. 
Greener. A most complete study of the gun to its 
latest perfection. Notes on rifles, gun-making, choice 
of guns, trials, theories and experiments, ammunition, 
accessories, use and handling. Cloth, fully illus., 770 
pages. New edition, postpaid, $4.00. 
UNCLE ’LISHA’S SHOP—Rowland E. Robinson. 
The shop of the village cobbler where the village char¬ 
acters, the hunters and fishermen, met nightly to 
“swap lies,” is made the center of a delightful story 
of life in a remote New England village. Cloth, illus. 
Postpaid, $1.25. 
