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FOREST AND STREAM 
[May 22, 1909. 
"Re^orfj 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 tor booklet to NEWLAND TARLTON & CO., 
LTD. (head office, Nairobi, B. E. Africa), 166 Piccadilly, 
London, England. Cables: Wapagazi; London. 
NEWFOUNDLAND 
Blxcellent Salmon and Trout Fishing; also Caribou 
shooting. Tent^ guides, boats provided. Write 
BUNGALOW, Grand Lake, Newfoundland. 
Rocky Mountain Guides 
Hunting trips a specialty. Elk, Deer, Nountain 
Sheep and Bear. Best hunting grounds in the 
Rockies. Also prepared to handle Park and Fishing 
Parties with wagon or pack outfit. Satisfaction 
guaranteed. References given. 
SNYDER BROS., Address Maiquette, Wyo. 
„ WYOMING. 
X Ranch, Cody, Wyoming, 
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Open year round for big-game hunting, fishing and out¬ 
door life in the Rockies. Address H. L. Ferguson, 
Stamford, Conn.; B. C. Rumsey, Cody, Wyo. 
“THE HOMESTEAD,” Narrowsburg, Sullivan Co., N. Y. 
Good bass and trout fishing, three miles from R.R. Daily, 
$1.50; weekly, $7 to $9. Children $5. Robert Heubner. 
POCONO MOUNTAINS 
NEW SPRUCE CABIN INN.— Where you can catch 
trout. Six well-stocked streams. Rooms en suite and 
with private bath. Acco. for families. Booklet. 
W. J. & M. D. PRICE, Canadensis, Pa. 
HUNTING IN AFRICA 
Shooting parties outfitted and guided in 
Rhodesia. Best English and American refer¬ 
ences. Abundance of Big Game. Address 
WILLIAM FINAUGHTY, JR., 
Bulawayo, Rhodesia. 
SPORTSMEN, come our way for the best hunting and 
fishing country, on the North Shore of Lake Superior. 
Moose, Caribou and Bear, numerous; also Trout, Pike, 
Pickerel and Bass, weighing from 1 to 7 lbs., were caught 
at our camps last year. Only one day’s travel by canoe 
from the Canadian Pacific Railway. Twenty-four moose 
seen in twelve days from our camp door in Oc¬ 
tober last year by American sportsmen. We furnish 
everything. White guides only are employed by us. 
Write for particulars in regards to our hunting country. 
Address GRAY & ARMSTRCING, Schreiber, Ontario, 
Canada, Box 31. 
NEWFOUNDLAND 
Salmon fishing and caribou hunting, best obtainable. 
Guides and camp outfit supplied. BAY ST. GEORGE 
HOTEL, Stephenville Crossing, Newfoundland. 
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. 
Vtfants and Ejechanges. 
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. 
Hunting Without a Gun, 
And other papers. By Rowland E. Robinson. With 
illustrations from drawings by Rachel Robinson. 
Price, $2.00. 
This is a collection of papers on different themes con¬ 
tributed to Forest and Stream and other publications, 
and now for the first time brought together. 
FCREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
1*roperty for Sale. 
Gentleman’s Country Club Farm For Sale 
Near Winsted and Norfolk, Conn., about 315 acres, timber 
and farm land, beautiful lake, 30 acres; also smaller lake, 
both well stocked; good summer and winter fishing; 
private waters. Two good trout brooks; caretakers, also 
club house, 8 rooms each, large veranda; good barn and 
stable accommodations. For terms and particulars ad¬ 
dress Lock Box 3, Winsted, Litchfield County, Conn. 21 
For Sale. Exclusive fishing privilege in 33- 
acre pond, 40 miles from Philadelphia. Pickerel 
and Bass. Good Hunting nearby. Write for 
particulars to Louis Wittenberg, 262 So. 2d St., 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
For Sale at a very moderate price per acre, about 34,0(X) 
acres of hunting and fishing lands in one body, in Clinton 
Co., Pa., on main line of Pennsylvania R.R. to Buffalo, 
with station on the property, with no inhabitants whatever 
on the entire property, with the exception of those em¬ 
ployed, residing in houses belonging to the property. 75 
miles of brook trout streams, an abundance of deer, bear, 
ruffed grouse and other game. Adjacent to the Pennsyl¬ 
vania State Forest Reservation, thoroughly provided with 
graded roads and numerous camps. One of the finest 
locations for a hunting and fishing association in the State 
of Pennsylvania. For information, price and terms, apply 
to the undersigned. 
GLEN UNION LUMBER CO., LTD., Pottsville, Pa. 
TO LEASE. 
■Salmon and Trout Fishing on the Nepisiquit River, New 
Brunswick. Apply to H. BISHOP, Bathurst, N. B. 23 
Private Camp for rent at Belgrade Lakes, Me., compris¬ 
ing main, dining, guest, servants’ and boat houses, com¬ 
pletely furnished; ice, garden and boats. Season $400. 
Launch, $100 extra. Address CAMP, Room 1607, 41 
Park Row, New York. tf 
Sam Lovers Camps. 
A Sequel to “Uncle Lisha’s Shop.” By Rowland E. 
Robinson. Cloth. Price, $1.00. 
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FOREST AND STREAM PUB. CO. 
1*7 Franklin Street, New Toik. 
were killed by these means, and every evening 
the conversation ran principally on the pigeon¬ 
shooting or the events of the different shots, 
and on the chances of the morrow. During 
these three days, nothing was eaten but pigeons, 
and the air was impregnated with the odor of 
these birds, so that the whole neighborhood 
smelt like a dove-cot. An arithmetician of the 
vicinity made an approximate calculation as to 
the number of individual birds of which these 
extraordinary hosts are composed, and of the 
enormous quantity of food required for their 
sustenance. Wilson, the celebrated ornitholo¬ 
gist, also made a similar calculation with very 
astonishing results. He relates having wit¬ 
nessed one of their migrations, when he ob¬ 
served an immense mass flying over his head. 
He calculated the breadth of the column, and 
estimated approximately the swiftness of flight, 
and then, by taking the length of time occupied 
in flying over his head, and estimating the num¬ 
ber of pigeons to the square yard, he arrived at 
the astonishing conclusion that the whole body 
contained two thousand two hundred and thirty 
millions, two hundred and seventy-two thou¬ 
sand (2,230,272,000) birds; and calculating that 
each pigeon would consume half a pint of food 
daily, of grain and fruit, they would devour 
seventeen millions four hundred and twenty- 
four thousand buShels (17,424,000) daily. 
Directly the pigeons perceive that they are 
passing over a crop of food, whether upon the 
trees or the ground, sufficient to recompense 
them for stopping, they wheel round and round, 
the rays of the sun shining on their brilliant 
plumage of azure and gold, and then they 
plunge at once into some dense wood in the 
neighborhood. Presently they grow more 
hardy, and by a sudden movement cover the 
ground. Should anything frighten them, they 
resume their flight with such rapidity that the 
flapping of their wings produces a noise which 
would be terrible if you did not know the cause 
of it. But when their alarm is over, they de¬ 
scend once more, and make such clean work 
that not a grain is to be found where they have 
been. This is the moment that the sportsmen 
of Kentucky choose for making such havoc in 
their ranks. In the middle of the day, the birds 
retire to repose and to digest their booty 
among the branches of the neighboring trees, 
their crops filled with beechnuts, acorns and 
other vegetables; but as soon as the sun sinks 
below the horizon, and at the very moment 
when his beams disappear behind the moun¬ 
tains, they fly off to the common roosting- 
place, which is sometimes forty leagues distant 
from the place where they have spent the day. 
SNAKE OPENS TROUTING SEASON. 
Hartley Yeager, who was spearing for eels 
along the Gravel Run stream, a mile from here, 
yesterday afternoon, saw a great thrashing of 
water in a secluded pool near the Brink tan¬ 
nery, says the Jacksonville (N. J.) correspond¬ 
ent of the Press. He jammed his five-pronged 
spear into the water, and when it encountered 
an object he gave it a quick jerk into the air. 
There was a flash of whirling color for a 
moment, and then Yeager saw what appeared 
to be a snake and fish in deadly combat. 
Yeager, feeling sure neither could escape into 
the water, watched the reptile and the fish, 
which proved to be a large speckled trout, 
until they lay quiet. Then he investigated. He 
found the reptile, which was a water snake 
about two feet long, was fastened to the trout 
in a curious manner. Through the gills of the 
monster trout stuck a fish hook, which the fish 
evidently had broken from the line of an 
angler. It protruded about half its length, the 
bntt being apparently solidly anchored. 
On that harpoon the snake had been caught 
as it skimmed over the water. The effort to 
escape resulted in the terrific struggle Yeager 
saw in the water before he yanked fish and 
snake to the surface. The snake still was alive, 
but utterly exhausted, and Yeager had little 
trouble in killing it. The trout he placed in 
his basket, and its size attracted much atten¬ 
tion here last night, as it was one of the largest 
ever brought to the town. 
