FOREST AND STREAM 
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T HERE’S double the charm and 
pleasure in shooting when you 
have exactly the right gun. You buy 
the best when you buy a 277<zr//n, and 
we want you to have exactly the right 
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why we make 
Ttlarlin 
Repeating Shotguns 
Note the beauty 
of build and bal¬ 
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have solid-top receiver, side ejec¬ 
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struction. The solid-steel-breech 
and safety devices make them the 
safest breech-loading guns built. 
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—guns of famous shooting ability — in 12, 16 
and 20 gauges, both hammer and hammer¬ 
less types, in many grades and styles. 
The standard 12’s handle heavy trap 
and duck loads easily. The medium 
16’s and light-weight 20 bores are per¬ 
fect for snipe, quail, partridge, wood¬ 
cock, squirrels, rabbits, etc.—they 
handle fast and with wonder- 
seeds, if left to grow, would do irreparable 
damage in stifling out the growing crops. In a 
year’s time with the same opportunity of securing 
food, a dove would devour three million, three 
hundred and fifty-eight thousand weed seeds. At 
the lowest possible estimate at one dollar a day it 
would take a farm-hand at least fifty days to de¬ 
stroy the weeds that would have sprouted and 
grown from the seeds destroyed by a single dove. 
Doves do valuable work for the farmers every 
day without pay ; they and other birds are his best 
friends. As insect destroyers birds are of in¬ 
calculable benefit to the farmers. Birds have 
their specific mission in organic nature to hold in 
check insect-pests, and by reason of their insect- 
diet are the compelling balancing force in nature. 
Man has been engaged for centuries in upset¬ 
ting Nature’s exquisite balance, unmindful of the 
fact that in the proportion that he wantonly de¬ 
stroys valuable birds, the scourge of insect-pests 
will increase. Indeed, man is not the master of 
the world but it is insects that hold dominion over 
the earth. Without birds to check their multi¬ 
plication, so rapidly do they increase, this planet 
would soon be divested of every character of 
vegetation, and man driven by starvation, in order 
to subsist, must either devour his fellows or else 
live on a diet of fish. 
The increase in the number of weed-destroying 
and insectivorous birds means an abundance of 
harvest yield, garners filled with golden grain, an 
increase in the production of cotton, and happiness 
and prosperity not only to the farmers but to the 
people of the nation at large. 
Alabamian. 
The Last Real Passenger Pigeon Now Extinct. 
Will the Dove Follow? 
HOW BRITISH COLUMBIA IS PROTECT¬ 
ING GAME 
Warned by the experiences in various terri¬ 
tories in the United States, the game department 
of the province of British Columbia is doing 
much toward conserving the deer and game 
throughout that vast territory in hte northwest. 
According to reports just received at Washing¬ 
ton from R. E. Mansfield, consul-general at 
Vancouver, Canada, the provincial authorities 
have paid out during 1914 $21,000 in bounties to 
hunters, trappers and setttlers, as a reward for 
It s Easy to Reload ! 
If you haven’t time to cast bul¬ 
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bullets for any caliber at 
1 o w p r i c e s. You then 
merely, dccap and re-cap 
shell, insert powder and 
crimp shell on to bullet. 
Does it pay? You can reload 
100 .32-40 smokeless short range 
cartridges (buying^the bullets) in half an hour at a 
total expense of 77c.; casting bullets yourself, 3Sc.; 
the new factory cartridges cost you $2.52 per 100. 
The Ideal Hand Book tells about reloading all rifle, pis¬ 
tol and shotgun ammunition; free for 3 stamps postage. 
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27 Willow Street 
New Haven, Conn. 
The Biggest 
Moose Heads 
come from the Province of Quebec. 
Several were secured in September 
and October, 1914, with antlers hav¬ 
ing a spread of five to six feet. 
Mrs. H. G. Campbell, Jr., of New York 
has a record of a black bear and a 
large bull moose at Lake Kiskisink. 
The big bull moose of Mayor Carter 
Harrison of Chicago was killed in 
Northern Quebec. 
Caribou and Deer 
are abundant in parts of Quebec 
Province. 
The Best Trout Fishing 
in the world is in the Province of Que¬ 
bec, and so are the best Guides both for 
fishing and hunting. Read Henry van 
Dyke's description of some of them in 
. “Little Rivers.’’ 
Mining Rights 
are obtainable on most liberal condi¬ 
tions. Write for details. 
Would You Like To Own 
A Summer Camp 
for your family, by a forest-clad stream 
or mountain-surrounded lake? 
You can build one of your own, by leas* 
ing a fishing and hunting territory from 
the Government of the Province, whether 
a resident of it or not, or by joining one 
of the many fish and game clubs. 
Write for an illustrated booklet on “The 
Fish and Game Clubs of Quebec,” which 
tells you all about them, and address all 
enquiries concerning fishing and hunting 
rights, fish and game laws, guides, etc., to 
Hon. HONORE MERCIER 
Minister of Colonization, 
Mines and Fisheries, 
QUEBEC, QUE. 
killing wolves, cougars, coyotes and other flesh 
eating animals known to be enemies of game. 
Consul-General Mansfield’s report in part fol¬ 
lows : 
“Bounties were given at the rate of $15 a 
head for cougars and wolves and $3 apiece for 
coyotes. Bounties were claimed on 382 wolves, 
280 cougars, and 4,138 coyotes. The Atlin and 
Skeena districts, along the Grand Trunk Pacific 
Railway, secured most of the wolf bounties. The 
largest number of cougars were killed in the 
Richmond district, near Vancouver, no less than 
27 having been shot within the city limits. Col¬ 
umbia and Lillooet, on the line of the Canadian 
Northern Railway, now being built from Edmon¬ 
ton to Vancouver, report the greatest number of 
