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FOREST AND STREAM 
[Jan. 9, 1909. 
'Resoris for J>portjrmen. 
li MECKLENBURG HOTEL and HUNTING PRESERVES, 
CHASE CITY. VIRGINIA. 
The preserves are second to none in the United States. Why.? 
FIRST: Owing to the diligent care of the owners, there is an abundance of game. 
SECOND: The last Virginia Legislature passed a law prohibiting the sale or purchase of birds thus eliminat¬ 
ing the pot hunter. 
THIRD: This preserve contains 30,000 acres of land, where deer, turkeys, quail and rabbits abound. 
FOURTH: A fine stable of elegant horses, riding, driving and trained hunters, as well as a full corps of guides. 
FIFTH: The Mecklenburg Hotel is modern in all its appointments, and is one of the most delightful 
Southern Winter Resorts in the entire country. 
SIXTH: Long-distance telephone and telegraphic communication in the building. 
SEVENTH: Cuisine unexcelled. 
EIGHTH: The best nine hole golf course in the South. 
NINTH: Fine kennels of bird-dogs for hire or sale, reasonably. 
TENTH: Because the Mecklenburg pack of fox hounds is the best in the land, and with them you can 
have an old-fashioned Virginia Fox Hunt on the Mecklenburg preserves. Fine country for riding. 
Everything First-Class. Prices Moderate. Write for Booklet. 
New York Office, 1122 Broadway. Telephone. 1872 Madison Square. 
I)utiferr Lodge 
Jin Tdeai lUinter K^siaence 
Quail abundant in easy walking dis¬ 
tance! Specially recommended to Ladies 
and Gentlemen who desire a mild climate, 
choice accommodations and a luxurious 
table. References given with pleasure. 
Address 
GEN’L FRANK A. BOND. 
Buies. North Carolina 
BRITISH EAST AFRICA. 
Big-game hunting parties thoroughly and economically 
equipped. 
ELEPHANT. LION. BUFFALO. 
ANTELOPE. RHINOCEROS. 
Tell us when you want to start, and we do the rest 
Write for booklet to NEWLAND, TARLTON & CO., 
LTD. (head office, Nairobi, B. E. Africa), 166 Piccadilly, 
London, England. Cables: Wapagazi; London. 
DUCKS. SNIPE. QUAIL AND 
RABBIT ON LONG ISLAND. 
Live duck decoys. License to gun on club grounds. 
Good accommodations. Write for dates. G. CARY 
SMITH, Cupsoque Hotel, opposite Center Moriches, L.I. 
The Monte Vista Log House. 
In the Heart of the Forest. 
Plenty of game and good fishing. Terms 
on application. Telegraph and P. O. address 
Clermont. Florida. 
BAGLEY FARM. 
fiagley’s Mills, Va., La Crosse Station. 
Philadelphia Office, 444 S. 43d Street. 
We offer sportsmen shooting privileges on 20,000 acres 
of undoubtedly the finest game lands in the South. This 
territory lies in the midst of a section 40 miles square, 
untouched by railways, consisting principally of original 
growth woods. Deer, turkey, foxes, rabbits and especially 
quail, are plentiful on this land. Best accommodations, 
trained dogs, horses and guides furnished. Write for 
booklet. 
We will insert your Hotel or Camp Advertisement 
in a space of this size (one inch) at the following 
rates: One time, $2.10; three months (13 insertions), 
$18.20; six months. (26 insertions), $35.00; one year 
(52 insertions), $60.00. 
FOREST AND STREAM, NEW YORK. 
The Best of Quail Shooting. 
Lcu'ge kennel of tradned dogs, guides, etc. 
THREE GOLF COURSES 
Two of eighteen holes; one of nine holes. 
Kept in the pink of condition. 
SIX TENNIS COURTS 
FREQUENT TOURNAMENTS 
Livery of Saddle Horses 
FOUR SPLENDID HOTELS 
of various prices, under one management. 
TVo consumptives received at Pinehurst 
Easily reached via Seaboard Air Line. Through 
Pullman Service. Send for Literature. 
PINEHURST GENERAL OFFICE 
PINEHURST, NORTH CAROLINA 
or Leonard Tufts, Owner, Boston, Mass. 
Vi/ant^ and Rjeehan^M. 
SPORTSMEN! HUNTERS! TRAPPERS! 
I will pay good prices for all kinds of live wild water 
fowl, either wing-tipped or trapped birds. 
G. D. TILLEY, Darien, Coca. 
Situation Wanted.—By a practical game-keeper. Life 
experience in the rearing of ornamental and common 
pheasants, partridges, quail and wild duck; also training 
and handling dogs. 
GAME-KEEPER, 152 East 78th St., New York. 
When writing say you saw the adv. in When writing say you saw the adv. in 
“Forest and Stream.” “Forest and Stream.” 
in the City of New York had an order from a 
prominent iip-town hotel for 200 dozen quail 
for one day’s use. When you multiply such an 
order as this by all of the hotels of a like char¬ 
acter, and all of the expensive restaurants where 
people go who want a bird and do not care 
what price is paid for it, can you not see the 
great reason why every year we find in the 
fields and woods less quail and less grouse than 
we saw in the preceding year? I tell you, 
gentlemen of the League, that there is only one 
thing for us to do, and that is to recommend to 
the Legislature of the State of New York that 
Section 92 shall consist merely of a prohibition 
of sale of quail, grouse and woodcock in the 
State of New York no matter where the birds 
came from. We will thus not only stop the 
great drain on these game birds, but we will 
wipe out from the statute books of this State 
what is now a disgrace and shame to the Com¬ 
monwealth. 
Sections 95, 172, 174 and 174a refer to the 
rails, shore birds and snipe of the State, ex¬ 
cepting woodcock. 
I simply wish to call your attention to the 
fact that there, as in other cases, a special law 
is made for Long Island, for which there is no 
more reason than there is for the other special 
exceptions. One law for snipe and rail is 
sufficient for the entire State, and I suggest that 
such a recommendation be made to the. Legis¬ 
lature. 
[to be concluded.] 
BIRDS AS INSECT DESTROYERS. 
Continued from page 52. 
In this connection brief allusion may be made 
to a class of immigrants to our shores who are 
ignorant both of our laws and of the need for 
enforcing them, and who look upon birds, large 
and small, only as food. Cheap guns and ammu¬ 
nition in the hands of these newcomers furnish 
means for the indiscriminate slaughter of birds 
for the pot, and public sentiment is either not 
recognized or is ignored. Nothing but strict 
laws, rigidly and impartially enforced, can save 
our birds from these pot-hunters. 
There are many ways of attracting birds to 
the farm and about the farm house. A conven¬ 
ient drinking and bathing place near the house 
is one of the most effective lures for birds 
known, as well as one of the cheapest. For 
wrens, swallows, bluebirds, chickadees and other 
kinds, which build in cavities of trees, boxes may 
be put up, care being taken to protect them as 
far as possible from the aggressive English spar¬ 
row. Above all should the farmer pay attention 
to the cats on his farm. It is only recently that 
the extent of the depredations of the house cat 
on wild Jife, especially on birds, has been recog¬ 
nized. Many who have studied the matter be¬ 
lieve that taking the year round cats are respon¬ 
sible for the death of more birds, especially 
young ones, than all wild animals put together. 
This may or may not prove to be an exaggera¬ 
tion, but unquestionably cats everywhere, espec¬ 
ially on the farm, destroy vast numbers of birds. 
Even the well-fed and well-housed pet is re¬ 
sponsible for many valuable lives, but the greater 
number are destroyed by strays which mistaken 
kindness has turned adrift, when not wanted in 
the house, to live as best they may. An adequate 
remedy against the bird-catching cat is neither 
easy to suggest nor to apply, but at least the 
farmer, who rightfully counts the birds of his 
farm as his friends, should be expected to de¬ 
stroy the stray cats that infest the country in 
summer, and, so far as possible, to see to it that 
the natural instincts of his own house pets are 
suppressed by ample feeding and reasonable re¬ 
straint. H. W. Henshaw. 
