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FOREST AND STREAM 
[April 3, 1909. 
"Rejorij for Sportsmen. 
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. 
NEWFOUNDLAND 
Excellent Salmon and Trout Fishing; also Caribou 
shooting. Tent^ guides, boats provided. Write 
BUNGALOW, Grand Lake, Newfoundland. 
BRITISH COLUMBIA 
Bear Season May and July, 1909. 
BERT WILLIAMS, - Lillooet, B. C. 
HIAWATHA CAMP HOTEL, Kensington Point, 
Desbarats, Ontario. Exquisite situation; air, water, site 
unexcelled; good fishing, canoeing and camping; good 
society. Reference, Tourist Department, Canadian 
Pacific Railway, Montreal. 16 
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. 
tXfanI* and Ejeehan^at. 
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, Conn. 
An ENGLISH GAMEKEEPER of large experience in 
Great Britain and the Southern United States, with ex¬ 
cellent recommendations, seeks a re-engagement where 
competency in raising and protecting game, such as 
English Pheasants, Hungarian Partridges, Wild Ducks, 
etc.,’or training of Sporting Dogs would be appreciated. 
Married. W. E. BENNISON, High Point, N. C. 16 
WANTED.—A strictly first-class, experienced man to 
take an important position in a large wholesale Gun and 
Sporting Goods House. Address, with references, 
H. S. B., care Forest and Stream. 14 
Pigeon Shooting. 
By CAPT. A. W. MONEY. 
A standard book on the sport by a recognized expert, 
covering all phases of live-bird and clay-pigeon shooting 
with much that is of value to every man who wishes to 
be complete master of his gun. 
Covers position, guns, ammunition, handling, sighting, 
field shooting, trigger pulls, technique and practice. This 
book will soon be out of print. Listed to sell at $1. 
Our price, while they last 
75 cents, postpaid. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
A Danvis Pioneer. 
A story of one of Ethan Allen’s Green Moun¬ 
tain Boys. By Rowland E. Robinson. Cloth, 
214 pages. Price, $1.25. 
Mr. Robinson’s Forest and Stream serial, “In Pioneer 
Days” has been published in a volume uniform in style 
with “Danvis Folks,” and those readers who are so 
fortunate as to possess Mr. Robinson’s other books will 
be glad to add this to the series. 
Contents: At the Deer’s Head. The Wilderness. 
Hermit Life in the Woods. Visitors. Ticonderoga. La 
Canadienne. Dalrymple, the Scout. Scouting on Cham¬ 
plain. Hubbardton. Ruby. A Curious Bit of History. 
'The Smooth-Bore. The Patriarch‘of Danvis. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
f*rop9rty for J^ai*. 
FOR SALE. 
Property for a Club. 
Unexcelled on the Coast for gunning, fishing and boating 
club. Location, ocean side of Eastern Shore, Virginia. 
Bay birds, ducks, geese and brant, quail and rabbit shoot¬ 
ing, excellent fishing, surf bathing, automobiling and 
driving. Building new and fitted with electric lights. 
Hot, cold, and salt water. Furnished and ready for oc¬ 
cupancy. Address, A. H. G. MEARS, Wachapreague, 
Va. Agents wanted. 
SHOOTINGS IN 
SCOTLAND. 
Tom and Jas. Speedy, • practical Shooting 
Agents, have a large number of grouse moors, 
deer forests and other shootings to let. Lists 
sent on application. Apply Speedys, Edinburgh. 
FOR SALE.—CAMP AT RANGELEY LAKE.—This 
camp, known as Lake Point Cottage, with several acres 
of land, is situated on a point near the outlet of Range- 
ley Lake, Maine, and a short distance from ihe Portland 
& Rumford Falls R. R. Its situation is the most attrac¬ 
tive in this region, and the fishing and hunting excellent. 
Besides the camp itself, with a large living room and an 
open fire-place, eight bedrooms, dining-room, kitchen and 
servants’ rooms, there are ice and wood houses fully 
stocked. Also a guides’ ■ house, stable, boat-house, and 
boats. Everything in order and well furnished. Must 
be sold to settle an estate. For terms and further details 
write to MRS. REUBEN A. TUTTLE, 10 Wellington 
Road, Brookline, Mass. 15 
For Sale—Exclusive Fishing and Hunting 
privileges in Canada. Fine trout fishing. Moose, cari¬ 
bou and deer. Fine camps easy of access. Care-taker in 
charge. For further information address P. O. Box 262, 
Bangor, Me. 
FISHING AND HUNTING. 
33-acre pond adjoining Delaware Bay and surrounded by 
hunting grounds. Situated at Eldora, N. J., four miles 
from railroad station. Will' rent to club or individual. 
Write for particulars to LOUIS WITTENBERCI, 262 So. 
Second St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
In the Woods and On the Shore 
RICHARD D. WARE. 
Narratives for Sportsmen. 
A splendid series of narratives of shooting and fishing 
experiences, told with a vividness of description and 
sportsmanlike appreciation that \yill appeal to every 
devotee of rod and gun. The writer has enjoyed some 
rare sport, but barring his success, the experiences are 
those of every Northern sportsman amplified. This, as 
well as a peculiar gift of story-telling, aside from the 
intrinsic interest of the narrative, constitutes half the 
charm of “In the Woods and On the Shore.” 
In brief, the narrative takes us among the caribou of 
the Newfoundland barrens, after moose in the Northern 
woods, shore bird shooting from C^e Cod to Nova 
Scotia, duck shooting along the New England coast and 
North and South, Brant shooting at Monomoy, after deer 
in New Brunswick, and by way of variety gives us a 
glimpse of rare sport with the big trout of the 
Nepigiguet. 
Cloth, splendid illustrations, 300 pages. Postpaid, $2. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
WILDFOWL SHOOTING. 
Containing Scientific and Practical Descriptions of 
Wildfowl; "rheir Resorts. Habits, Flights, and the Most 
Successful Method of Hunting Them. Treating of the 
selection of guns for wildfowl shooting, how to load, aim 
and to use them; decoys and the proper manner of 
using them; blinds, how and where to construct them; 
boats, how to use and build them scientifically; re¬ 
trievers, their characteristics, how to select and train 
them. By William Bruce Leffingwell. Illustrated. 373 
pages. Price, in cloth, $1.50; half morocco, $2.50. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
DESTRUCTION OF BIRDS IN RUSSIA. 
The enormous decrease in the number of 
many kinds of birds now apparent in Russia is 
mainly due to the reckless destruction of eggs 
which annually takes place in different parts of 
the country. The Russian peasant appropri¬ 
ates everything; he takes all the down and 
eggs and kills the sitting birds. In the Arctic, 
in the Southern Caspian, and in the Aral-Cas- 
pian regions the destruction of this kind which 
is carried on is immense. On Sundays and 
holidays the inhabitants in the Caspian districts 
set forth in great fleets of rafts for the purpose. 
When one of these is loaded up with eggs and 
dead birds the cargo is put ashore and a fresh 
start made. It frequently happens that a great 
portion of the eggs are too far advanced and 
must be thrown away; while such, too, is the 
case when the weather prevents their being 
landed—they are affected by the sun and 
thrown overboard. Enormous numbers of 
swan, goose, pelican, duck, gull and other eggs 
are collected on such an expedition. Accord¬ 
ing to a writer in the Deutsche Jagerzeitung, 
in the government of Astrachan fifty persons 
can take 1000 eggs each, a part of which are 
used as food for pigs, and the rest are sold 
to the soap factories. In the market of the 
town of Astrachan alone there are offered for 
sale, according to the governor’s report, over 
500,000 eggs annually. 
The Ural Cossacks in May and June, collect 
many thousands of eggs, which are mostly sold 
in Gurjeff, a town at the mouth of the en¬ 
trance of the Ural River into the Caspian Sea. 
Formerly the waters in the government of As¬ 
trachan swarmed with ducks and other web¬ 
footed fowl; now, owing to this senseless de¬ 
struction of eggs, their numbers have de¬ 
creased to an alarming extent. 
In Asiatic Russia, too, a similar state of 
things exists. Vast quantities of swan, goose, 
and duck eggs are offered for sale in the 
Siberian market places. 
In the far East, on the rocky shores of the 
Commodore Islands, the eggs of sea fowl, 
principally auks and puffins, in incalculable 
numbers, are collected and sent off in casks to 
San Francisco and Petropaulovsk, in which 
latter town they are much esteemed owing to 
the impossibility of keeping domestic fowls 
caused by the multitudes of wandering hungry 
dogs. In Semipalatinsk, according to the Gov¬ 
ernor’s estimate, the Kirghiz collect on an 
average about 300 goose and duck eggs each; 
and such, too, is the case in Semiretschensk. 
But even the number of eggs, vast as it is, 
taken for purposes of sale in Russia, is small 
compared with the quantity destroyed by dogs 
and persons herding cattle, or collected by the 
people for their own use. In spring all the 
swamps, fens, reed beds, and tarns are thor¬ 
oughly searched and hunted over. The Rus¬ 
sian peasant cannot be blamed, especially in 
famine years, for trying to add to his scanty 
fare; but the indiscriminate destruction of 
birds’ eggs, which fr.om pure mischief is caused 
by hungry dogs, children, and cattle herds, 
cannot be justified in any way. 
SEAWEED FOR MATTRESSES. 
Consul M. J. Hendrick, of Moncton, N. B., 
reports that two representatives of an Ameri¬ 
can mattress manufacturing company spent a 
portion of the past summer on the south shore 
of Northumberland Strait, in the vicinity of 
Malagash and north shore Wallace, Nova 
Scotia, investigating the quality and quantity 
of seaweed, of which, during certain storms, 
large quantities are driven ashore at different 
points; as a result, 130 tons of seaweed, said to 
be of excellent quality for mattress making, 
were gathered, pressed and shipped to the 
United States from north shore Wallace; 
hitherto only small quantities of this material 
have been gathered for fertilizing purposes.— 
New York Fishing Gazette. 
All the game laws of the United States and 
Canada, revised to date and now in force, are 
given in the Game Laws in Brief. See adv. 
