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Some Shooting with The 
DOUBLE BARREL PARKER GUN 
At the Indian Tournament, Sandusky, O., June 29-July 2, S. A. Huntley won high general average 
and amateur average, 491 x 500. Woolfolk Henderson second, 488 x 500. 
Fred Gilbert won second professional average, 481 x 500; Arthur Viliam third professional average, 
475 x 500. All of these gentlemen were shooting DOUBLE BARREL PARKER GUNS. 
“Pacific Coast Handicap, San Diego, Cal., July 8th to the 15th, four Parker DOUBLE Barrel Guns 
tied for first place. Guy Holohan won high general average at single targets; Foster Couts and Tony 
Prior won high average at double targets. These gentlemen all shot 34 in. DOUBLE Barrel Parker 
guns.” 
PARKER BROS., Meriden, Conn. 
NEW YORK SALES ROOMS, 32 WARREN STREET 
coyotes, 754 bounties being claimed by the for¬ 
mer and 794 in the last-named district. Kam¬ 
loops reported 624 coyotes and 13 wolves. 
“By destroying these animals of prey the game 
department believes that the lives of thousands 
of deer will be preserved. It is estimated that 
one full-grown cougar requires the equivalent of 
one deer each week for food, and as these big 
felines prey upon the young deer the destruction 
is great, especially in the breeding season, as the 
wolves and cougars kill many of the fawns while 
they are quite young.” 
THE STARLING AS A CUT WORM 
DESTROYER 
Grant City, Staten Island, July 5, 1915. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
I have read and heard a lot about starlings 
and their depredations. Being a lover of bird 
life in general, I built a substantial house for 
them in my garden last winter. 
The first ones to build a nest were a pair of 
starlings. I watched them with interest and 
was agreeably surprised when I saw them feed 
their young ones with nothing but cut worms; 
they brought them by the hundred every day. 
After this the starling is welcome to my place. 
E. C. WERTH MULLER. 
FOREST FIRE “DON’TS.” 
To obtain the co-operation of the public in pre¬ 
venting forest fires which are doing a great deal 
of damage in the East this spring, the United 
States Forest Service has prepared ten “DON’TS” 
to be observed in the woods. 
Many thousands of acres of forest and su¬ 
burban woodland from Maine to Florida, and 
from the Atlantic coast as far W est as Arkansas, 
have been burned over already this spring by 
fires which started for the most part from pre¬ 
ventable causes. On the National Forest pur¬ 
chase areas alone, forty-nine fires occurred in 
March, burning over more than 6,500 acres, while 
forty-four fires starting on private land near 
or within government boundaries damaged 
nearly 5 . 5 °° acres. Fires in April were even 
more numerous and severe, but rains in the lat¬ 
ter part of the month helped the situation some¬ 
what. 
The Don’ts 
1. Don’t throw your match away until you are 
sure it is out. 
2. Don’t drop cigarette or cigar butts until the 
glow is extinguished. 
3. Don’t knock out your pipe ashes while hot 
or where they will fall into dry leaves or other 
inflammable material 
4. Don’t build a camp fire any larger than is 
absolutely necessary. 
5. Don’t build a fire against a tree, a log, or 
a stump, or anywhere but on bare soil. 
6. Don’t leave a fire until you are sure it is 
out; if necessary smother it with earth or water. 
7. Don’t burn brush or refuse in or near the 
woods if there is any chance that the fire may 
spread beyond your control, or that the wind may 
carry sparks where they would start a new fire. 
8. Don’t be any more careless with fire in the 
woods than you are with fire in your own home. 
9. Don’t be idle when you discover a fire in 
the woods; if you can’t put it out yourself, get 
help. Where a Forest Guard, Ranger, or State 
Fire Warden can be reached, call him up on the 
nearest telephone you can find. 
10. Don’t forget that human thoughtlessness 
and negligence are the causes of more than half 
of the forest fires in this country, and that the 
smallest spark may start a conflagration that will 
result in loss of life and destruction of timber and 
young growth valuable not only for lumber but 
for their influence in helping to prevent flood, 
erosion, and drought. 
RIFLE PRACTICE FOR OUR NATIONAL 
DEFENSE 
Plans for the National shooting competition 
for 1915 are materializing. Under the present 
state of the public mind and the almost univer¬ 
sal demand for better national defense and some 
form of training of our citizens, this year’s 
shooting competitions have more than usual in¬ 
terest. Attention has been called in the public 
press to the lack of proper training with the 
service rifle in this country. Records have shown 
that not more than 40 per cent, of the National 
Guard was taken to the rifle range during the 
year 1914. Congress established the national 
matches solely with a view of increasing rifle 
training among Uncle Sam’s services. Owing to 
the unusual condition of affairs this year, un¬ 
doubtedly the matches will be more generally at¬ 
tended than ever before as States are brought 
to the realization of the importance of this train¬ 
ing. It is probable that there will not be a State 
in the Union that will not be represented in the 
1915 matches. Even West Virginia, whose ap¬ 
propriation for the maintenance of the National 
Guard was omitted this year, has declared its 
intention of finding some way of sending a team 
to Florida where these national matches are to 
be held. Congress at the last session still fur¬ 
ther gave its approval and assistance to rifle 
teams by appropriating $50,000 to assist States 
which have to send teams from long distances in 
paying transportation charges so that such States 
as Washington, Oregon and Maine will not be 
handicapped this year in the sending of rifle 
teams to Florida. 
The range in Florida, where the matches of 
1915 are to be shot, is the second largest in the 
United States in point of target facilities, it 
being outranked only by the Camp Perry, Ohio, 
range, and it is second in point of attractiveness 
and salubrious location, being led only by the 
famous Sea Girt, N. J., range, which is located 
on the Atlantic seaboard. The Florida range is 
only eight miles from Jacksonville, with which 
it has direct communication by both railroad and 
steamboat services on the St. Johns River. Rail¬ 
roads serving the Florida shoot have announced 
a special rate which will also be of great help 
toward a large attendance. This is the first time 
An Excellent Opportunity for a Few Members to Join 
the Best Duck - Shooting Club in the State of Florida 
A few memberships in the best duck-shooting Club in Florida can he hoA a,, a--:, tu 
. The 1,000 Island Club of Florida, a Club incorporated under the t^ws of the SUteof Florid? 1? 
increased its membership from twelve (12) to twenty (20) will take in eiclit m Honda, having 
C ub owns several thousand acres of marsh islands and feeding grounds or d„L ^ hls 
C1 The H r°, U ! e tt 3 fine ne , w building built to accommodate twenty members a " d Smpe ‘ ° Ur 
The Club House is situated on the eastern side of Merritt Island on tire Banana River and tt,c 
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For full information apply to JOHN PULLMAN, 741 Union Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
