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MOSQUITO AND FLEA PREVENTIVE. 
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a clump of woods, and the mosquitoes, flies and 
I fleas were simply awful. I found that by taking 
a small quantity of Pyrethrum rosocum, or the 
Persian camomile, making it into a paste with a 
! few drops of alcohol,' then diluting with three 
or four times as much water, applying to the 
exposed parts of the body and allowing it to 
' dry, that the trouble was much mitigated. The 
Pyrethrum is not poisonous, and may be freely 
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REMARKABLE TEST OF RIFLE BARREL. 
Kristiania, August 14, 1915. 
Editor Forest and Stream : 
An experinment was arranged here at Kristiania 
yesterday afternoon to try an invention of great 
interest to all your readers as it concerns the 
protection of the gun barrel against the action 
of the powder and the ball in rifles. The demon¬ 
stration and test was under the management of 
Major Julstrud, the government expert on ord¬ 
nance and his assistant. Lieut. Hansen of the 
general staff. The inventor is the Swedish engi¬ 
neer, Alfred Nilson. 
The invention consists of a chemical which 
does not in any way affect the powder or the 
cartridge but furnishes a lubricant to the missile 
and a protection to the gun’s inside parts against 
the burning of the ammunition. 
The weapon used was the regulation army 
machine-gun with new barrel. 
First 1,000 rounds were fired with the ordinary 
ammunition of the artillery and the gun was 
kept cool by constant washing of cold water. 
Thereafter the barrel was taken out and a new 
one screwed in its place and the intention was 
now to fire 1,000 rounds without stopping and 
without cooling, using the new invention during 
this test, which was made as severe as possible. 
It did not take more than two minutes (the gun 
shoots 250 shoots a minute) before the gunpipe 
was getting red hot, and when 850 shots had been 
fired the mechanism refused to operate as the 
different temperature in the different parts put 
the gun out of work. 
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The gun was then cooled off and the barrel 
taken out. Both barrels being cleaned out it was 
found that the powder chamber of the first was 
badly cored and burned out while in the second 
the bore was perfectly intact and showed no burn¬ 
ing in the chamber, and hardly any noticeable 
wear in the rifling. 
The invention, therefore, proves to be of the 
greatest importance in prolonging the life of 
rifled guns. Just think of what saving this will 
mean to the big gun material of a great navy 
and army. Major Julstrud expressed his great 
astonishment. 
The American military attache, Capt. James 
Tatten, who resides at Copenhagen, was repre¬ 
sented at the demonstration by his agent at 
Kristiania. The invention will be offered first 
of all to his government. 
Harry Randall. 
THE SAD REFLECTION OF A FLORIDA 
FISHERMAN. 
Stuart, Fla., August 30, 1913. 
Editor Forest and Stream : 
Being called to Salerno, on a business trip, last 
Friday, I was informed that, on August 22, 
James W. Fike, a settler living near the Big 
Bass Lake, had in an hour’s time caught two 
bass, one of eleven pounds weight, and one of 
nine pounds, and that in an hour and a half the 
following Wednesday afternoon, he had caught 
three, weighing, respectively, five, six and one 
half, and eight pounds, and then I suddenly re¬ 
membered that I had not had a vacation this 
summer, and forgot all business, and was taken 
out to the lake, to the home of a friend where I 
was welcomed with the good news, “am awful 
glad to see you, you will learn what it is to 
catch bass that are bass, not the minnows you 
have always caught in the north.” 
Well, the result was that afternoon I trolled 
that lake, with the best of artificial bass baits, 
still-fished from the shore with live bait and 
from boat but no strike could I get, and I worked 
faithfully through the twilight, and by moon¬ 
light, without a strike. Promising myself better 
luck on Saturday, I retired to a sound sleep, that 
was broken by the alarm clock, at 4 a. m., and I 
was in the boat out on the lake, just as day was 
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