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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Jan. i6, 1909. 
"Resorfj for S'porf.rmen. 
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 ellmlnet- 
ing the pot hunter. 
THIRD: This preserve contains 3O,0C0 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 inter 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 hourds is the best in the land, and with them you can 
have an old-fashioned Virginia Fox Hunt on the Mecklenburg preserves. Fine couniiy toi tiding. 
Everything First-Class. Prices Moderate. 
New York Office, 1122 Broadway. 
Write for Booklet. 
Telephone, 1872 Madison Square. 
Ecdge 
Jln Tdeal Ulintcr Kcsideitce 
Quail abundant in easy walking dis¬ 
tance! Specially reccmmended 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 
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. 
When writing say you saw the adv. in 
“Forest and Stream.” 
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, 
Bagley’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. 
There is no other place 
that combines as many 
advantages for out-of- 
door recreation as 
PINEHURST 
North Carolina 
THREE GOLF COURSES 
2 of eighteen holes. 1 of nine holes. 
Kept in pink of condition. 
50.000 ACRE SHOOTING PRESERVE 
Best Quail Shooting in America. 
Kennels of Trained Dogs. 
Guides. Shooting Outfits, etc. 
SIX TENNIS COURTS 
Frequent Tournaments in all branches 
of sport. 
FOUR SPLENDID HOTELS 
of varied prices. 
No 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. 
Vefant-t and Rjechan^e^. 
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. Coen 
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 
‘Forest and Stream.” 
saw the adv. in 
less every year, and it has thus become im¬ 
portant that provision should be made to offset 
this cause of decrease. This can only be done 
by establishing what is known as reserves. On 
the coast and also in interior parts of the West, 
tracts of land are now being set aside by the 
Federal Government for forestry reserves and 
also as bird and game reserves, but unfortunately 
in the original thirteen States of this great Fed¬ 
eration, the Federal Government does not own 
any land and therefore cannot set any aside for 
this purpose. However, the State of New York 
is far more advanced regarding the public 
ownership of lands than most any other State 
in the country, and I suggest for your thought¬ 
ful consideration that in the lands of the State, 
especially in the Adirondack and Catskill parks, 
certain portions, say one square mile in every 
four, should be set aside as a bird and game 
refuge where absolutely no shooting or hunting 
should be allowed under any circumstances. If this 
were done, I think it would increase the number 
of wild birds very materially and also the game 
animals, because in the reserves the birds and 
animals would be permitted to breed without 
any disturbance, and after the breeding season 
they naturally would wander to sections where 
shooting was allowed, and therefore the sports¬ 
man would find in the end that the setting aside 
of these tracts would materially increase the 
number of birds and animals that could be shot. 
TROUT IN CAPE COLONY. 
The introduction of trout into various rivers 
of South Africa has been attended with such 
satisfactory results, and the fish have increased 
to such an extent, that the Cape Government 
has seen its way to a further removal of the 
restrictions which were placed upon anglers until 
the streams had become sufficiently well stocked. 
Under the amended Trout Fishing Regulations 
promulgated by Proclamation No. 475, various 
specified rivers are now open for trout fishing 
between Oct. i a^id Jan. 15 in each year, the 
open season beginning on Sept. 15 and being 
extended, in the case of certain vleis, to March 
31. In parts of the Buffalo and other rivers 
enumerated in the order, the open season is also 
extended to the end of March. The conditions 
under which angling is permitted are only set 
forth, it being essential that the name of the 
applicant shall be registered and a permit ob¬ 
tained from the resident magistrate of the dis¬ 
trict. The only means permitted for the cap¬ 
ture and killing of trout is that of the rod and 
line. No net may be employed other than a 
landing net. Trout of less than 12 inches in 
length must be returned with as little delay and 
injury as possible, and the number of larger fish 
that may be taken by any one person in one day 
shall not exceed six. The consent of the owner 
on whose ground it is proposed to fish must first 
be obtained, and the permit, which is not trans¬ 
ferable, must be produced for inspection by any 
Government official. Riparian owners do not 
require a permit to fish for trout in the open 
waters on their own property, but are subject 
to the other conditions. A fine not exceeding 
£20, or in default, imprisonment for a period 
not exceeding three months, is the penalty for 
contravention of these regulations.—Field. 
MURINE OPPOSSUM IMPORTED IN 
BANANAS. 
The manner in which commerce may con¬ 
tribute to the extension of the range of a species 
is exemplified in the case of a murine oppossum 
(Didelphys murina) which died this week at the 
Zoological Gardens, after a brief period of 
captivity in the squirrel house, says the Eield. 
It was imported from South America in a bunch 
of bananas, and offered to the society, who at 
once purchased it. In the case of this species 
there is no chance that it will establish itself 
in Britain or on the continent, though it was 
not the first example to reach our shores in this 
way. A few years ago one lived for a short 
time in the Clifton Zoological Gardens, to 
which it was presented by a Bristol firm, on 
whose premises it was discovered in a bunch of 
bananas, part of a consignment from Costa 
Rica. 
