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When Our Land Is Filled 
With Game 
A FEW years ago America was the greatest 
game country in the world. Our woods, 
our fields, our water-ways, were teeming 
with game birds. Wild turkeys, quail, grouse, 
ducks, were familiar sights—to the sportsman; on 
the table; and in city markets. 
These conditions should again prevail. They 
may successfully be brought about through game 
farming. 
Game farming does not necessarily require a large 
amount of land and involves little expense in time 
and money. The work in itself is intensely interest¬ 
ing and affords both profit and pleasure to those who 
indulge in it. 
Results from Game Farming 
In the first place game birds of many kinds com¬ 
mand high prices in city markets. Their eggs are 
eagerly sought by breeders. Secondly, if you are 
fond of hunting, the birds you raise will provide ex¬ 
cellent sport and food. Or if you prefer, and if you 
own large acreage, you may lease the privilege of 
shooting over your land. This does not mean that 
the sport of hunting, so far as the general public is 
concerned, will be restricted. On the contrary it 
will be increased; for game raised for sporting pur¬ 
poses cannot be closely confined in any given area. 
If you are interested in game farming from any standpoint, 
you should write for a booklet which takes up the subject in 
a broad way and gives much interesting and valuable informa¬ 
tion regarding it. 
The book is called “Game Farming for Profit and Pleas¬ 
ure.” It is well worth reading. Write for a copy. Use 
the coupon below. 
Game Breeding Department, Room 191 
HERCULES POWDER^ CO< 
Wilmington, Delaware 
Manufacturers of Explosives; Infallible and “E.C.” 
Smokeless Shotgun Powders; L. & R. Orange Extra 
Black Sporting Powder; Dynamite for farming. 
Game Breeding Department, Room 191 
Hercules Powder Company, Wilmington, Del. 
Gentlemen:—Please send me a copy of Game Farming for Profit and Pleasure. I am interested in game breeding from 
the standpoint of. 
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Here Are Six Great Killers— 
And Twenty-four Interchangeable Combinations! 
Realizing the great and well known flsh-getting qualities of spinners, the Pfluegers have here 
devised a set of spinner baits, with interchangeable parts readily attachable, to enable the angler 
to meet any and all conditions of water, lime of day, season of year and other causes, with a 
bait that will attract game fish under the special conditions existing at the moment. This year 
don't start away on that long anticipated trip without having in your tackle box at least one set of 
“Pflueger-Lewis” Interchangeable Spinner 
Each set contains:—Two rust-proof piano wire shafts, each with a “Jack" to 
which the blade is secured: one hollow point double hook, ringed size 1/0; one 
hollow point Ct lifornia bass hook, ringed size 4/0, with a copper baiting wire 
attached; one Wyoga bass fly. Royal Coachman pattern on a hollow point Sproat 
hook, ringed size 2/0; one hollow point treble hook, ringed size 1/0, feathered, 
and six interchangeable spoon blades. 
If your dealer cannot supply you we will mail you one set postpaid on receipt 
of $1.00. 
^The Enterprise Manufacturing Co. 
Dept. 2 1 
Akron, Ohio 
NOTICE—Write for free copy "Tips on Tackle" containing much Information of interest to anglers. 
A POTTERS’ CLUB THAT SHOULD BE 
SUPPRESSED. 
Boston, March 25, 1916. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Many years ago a copy of the “Rod and Gun,” 
published by Parker Brothers, was sent me and 
I eagerly subscribed. Soon after Forest and 
Stream appeared and I at once became a reader 
of it. The numbers as issued were carefully 
preserved and this winter I have spent delight¬ 
ful evenings reading the articles of the contribu¬ 
tors of years ago. I doubt if any paper ever 
presented more brilliant, breezy, whole-souled 
outdoor articles than can be found in the old 
numbers of Forest and Stream, by Nesmuk, 
Mather, Kingfisher, Yo, Piseco, and many others. 
Beginning from the first numbers and reading 
on year by year it is interesting to watch the 
gradual awakening to the need of protection of 
wild life. The early numbers have records of 
tremendous bags, great catches of fish, and 
more or less actual slaughter; but evidently sen¬ 
timent of the best sportsmen soon changed 
against this. Warnings of the growing scarcity 
of game appeared more frequently and nearly 
all the articles one reads to-day show an appre¬ 
ciation of the fact that game is rapidly disap¬ 
pearing and wanton killing of non-game birds 
must be stopped. Therefore, I was surprised 
to read in “Scribner’s” February issue an article 
in which pelican potting, swallow and Man-o-War 
shooting as a sport to fill in during dull fishing 
hours was described, as well as the formation of 
a Man-o’-War and Pelican Potters’ Club, as a 
new form of sport. Inasmuch as the birds in 
question are protected by the laws in the state 
in which this very exciting sport occurred, it 
appears strange to me that such a statement by 
a well-known author and in such a well-known 
magazine should appear. 
The Audubon Society, through its secretary, 
Mr. T. Gilbert Pearson, will in “Bird Lore” call 
attention to the fact that graceful Man-’o-War 
birds, swallows and the picturesque pelican, whose 
presence and comical actions add so much to 
Florida bird life, are not game birds and are 
protected and cannot be used for target practice. 
Chauncy W. Chamberlain. 
SWAN ON CHESAPEAKE BAY. 
Baltimore, Md., March 29, 1916. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
I am surprised to note in Mr. Edward Woll- 
man’s letter that he states that swan are only 
found in Currituck. 
I never saw the day there were not swan on 
the Chesapeake Bay, although they are now 
more plentiful than they were before the Fed¬ 
eral Law went into effect. 
At the present moment there are so many 
swans on the Flats at the head of the Chesa¬ 
peake that they are literally cutting canals 
through the shoal celery; at my Ducking Club, 
Miller’s Island, we have had large flocks of 
swan with us all this winter, last winter, and 
previous winters. 
Few are killed excepting illegally—at night or 
with motor boats. Talbot Denmead. 
The Bucks County (Pa.) fish, game and for¬ 
estry association has a membership of i,ooo. 
Waterfowl to the number of 26,000 were killed 
in Oregon during the year of 1915. 
