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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Nov. 20, 1909. 
"Resorts for Sportsmen. 
NORTH CAROLINA 
The Centre of Winter Out-of- 
Door Life in the Middle South 
FREE FROM CLIMATIC EXTREMES. AND 
WHOLESOME IN EVERY RESPECT. 
FOUR EXCELLENT HOTELS — The 
only resort having THREE GOLF 
COURSES, all in pink of condition. Coun¬ 
try Club, 40,000 Acre Private Shooting 
Preserve,Good Guides and Trained Dogs, 
Fine Livery of Saddle Horses, Model 
Dairy, Tennis Courts, TrapShooting, etc. 
NO CONSUMPTIVES RECEIVED AT PINEHURST 
Through Pullman Service from New York to Pinehurst 
via Seaboard Air Line. Only one night out from New 
York, Boston , Cleveland , Pittsburg and Cincinnati, 
Don '/ fail to send to nearest railroad offices for litera • 
ture, illustrating the out-of-door features of PINE¬ 
HURST and giving full details of attractions. 
Send for illustrated literature and list of 
Golf, Tennis and Shooting Tournament. 
Pinehurst General Office: PINEHURST, NORTH 
CAROLINA, or Leonard Tufts,Owner, Boston,Maw. 
Ideal Winter Resort and Quail Preserve.—Parties desiring 
to spend winter vacation in the South in an ideal 
climate, plenty of quail, Northern cooking and quiet 
surroundings, can secure accommodations by addressing 
J. GEO. CHANDLER, Barber, N. C. 22 
A FEW PERSONS 
(of the right sort) who may wish to spend a time during 
the winter in quiet and comfort on an old-fashioned 
Southern rice plantation in a fine game section, can be 
well taken care of. To sportsmen or family party, the 
surroundings have proven very interesting and attractive. 
Address, MRS. PENNINGTON, Chicora Wood, George¬ 
town, S. C. 21 
Duck Shooting on Moriches Bay 
Best shooting on Long Island. Ducks, snipe, quail, 
partridge, rabbit. Live decoys, experienced guides. Write 
now for accommodations in newly renovated hotel on the 
beach. WM. GRAM BART, Prop., Cupsogue House, 
Center Moriches, L. I. 
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. 
DUCK SHOOTING. 
Guides, Boats and Decoys on Great South Bay. Best 
accommodations at Bay Side Hotel, Eastport, L. I. 
Best Duck shooting in 20 years. H. J. ROGERS, Prop. 
PINE TOP LODGE AND KENNELS, 
Yale, Sussex County, Virginia.—Do you shoot? Do you 
know a place where you can take your wife and yet have 
good quail shooting, dogs, livery and guides, good table, 
and everything conducive to a pleasant outing? 
C. & L. P. BLOW. 
*Resorts for Sportsmen, 
BRITISH EAST AFRICA 
BIG GAME HUNTING 
As pioneers in equipping Big Game hunting parties, 
NEWLAND, TARLTON & CO., LTD., confidently in¬ 
vite inquiries from all who think of visiting the “most 
attractive playground in the world.” These words are 
applied by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt to British East 
Africa, and the fact that NEWLAND, TARLTON & 
CO,. LTD., have been honored with all his arrangements 
is a guarantee of their ability to do things well, and an 
acknowledgment of their long experience. Write for book¬ 
let to their London Office. NEWLAND, TARLTON & 
CO., Ltd. (Head Office: Nairobi, B. E. Africa), 166 
Piccadilly, London. Cables: Wapagazi; London. Codes: 
ABC 5th Edn., and Western Union. 
HUNTERS’ LODGE! 
GOOD QUAIL SHOOTING! 
Choice Accommodation for Gentlemen 
and Ladies. Come and bring your wife. 
General FRANK A. BOND, 
Buies, N. C. 
DUCK SHOOTING.—I have only a few days open. I 
have 500 acres hunting grounds (private). Lifetime ex¬ 
perience, first-class accommodations, good time and birds 
guaranteed. EAST BAY HOTEL, G. Cary Smith Prop., 
formerly Cupsogue House, Center Moriches, L. I. 
HUNTING IN FLORIDA. 
Birds, Turkey, Cat, Fox, etc., on plantation. Not far 
from Duck, Deer and Bear. Good board and beds; 
open fires; horses and vehicles; pure water; good R.R. 
and telegraph facilities. 
WOODLAND PLANTATION, Lloyd, Fla. 
BAGLEY FARM, BAG ^L M,LLS * 
Kenbridge Station, Va. R. R. Guests are offered shooting privileges on 
20,000 acres of land, undoubtedly the best for quail, deer and turkey 
shooting in the South. Good accommodations. Guides, dogs and horses 
furnished. tf 
N ew spruce cabin inn. 
located hotel in Pocono Mountains. Rooms en suite and with 
private bath. All amusements. Special rates, Sept., Oct., Nov. 
Grouse or pheasant, rabbit, deer shooting in season. Booklet. 
Cresco Station, D. L. & W. R. R. W. J. & M. D. Price, Canadensis,Pa. 
Grand Island Forest and Game Preserve 
An island containing 13,600 acres, located in Munising 
Bay, Lake Superior, two and one-half miles from Munising, 
Michigan. Efficient boat service between island and mainland. 
Stocked with Caribou, Elk, Moose, and various species of Deer 
and Birds. Located in the upper peninsula of Michigan, 
where fishing and hunting abounds. Excellent rail and water 
connections. Hotel Williams and Cottages with all modern con¬ 
veniences, located on the island, opens for business June 20th. 
Terms Reasonable 
Additional Cottages, on Grand Island, on the shores of Lake 
Superior, furnished for housekeeping, for rent by the week, 
month or season. Lots, on which to build cottages, for lease. 
For illustrated booklet, containing full information, apply to 
THE CLEVELAND-CLIFFS IRON CO. 
Land Department Munising, Michigan 
UPPER ROACH RIVER HOUSE. 
Last season 52 Buck Deer and 9 Bull Moose from here. 
Six trout ponds; also stream fishing; 14 miles from Lily 
Bay. Buckboards and teams for canoes and baggage. 
Guides. Rates reasonable; table guaranteed. Train to 
Greenville Junction, Maine. 2000 feet above sea level. 
Write to G. W. PARKS, Roach River, Me. 
RIPOGENUS LAKE CAMPS 
Cover a forest area of 250 square miles, and offer the 
best hunting in the State for Moose and Deer. Send 
for illustrated circular and map. REG. C. THOMAS, 
Chesuncook P. O., Maine. 
EXCLUSIVE HUNTING ON 25,000 ACRES. 
Furnishing first-class accommodations, guides, livery, 
hunting lands and trained dogs for the hunting of quail, 
wild turkeys and deer. Northern references. Special 
attention to parties containing ladies. Trained and 
untrained quail dogs for sale. 
Dr. H. L. ATKINS, Boydton, Va. 
NOTICE TO SPORTSMEN! 
The license fee for non-residents for the privilege of 
shooting in Delaware is $10 per year; penalty for non- 
compliance, $50. Licenses may be obtained of E. G. 
Bradford, Jr., Secretary the Delaware Game Protective 
Association, Wilmington, Del. 
ing or making a noise through a hollowed-out 
piece of wood. It is most often produced by 
an arrangement of the fingers and mouth. On 
a great stretch of fell or mountain moorland 
and before complete daylight, it is quite obvious 
that the discharge of a gun could not easily be 
traced, even if watchers heard it, but many old 
becking poachers never used firearms at all, and 
it is a moot point whether or not crossbows 
were used before powder and shot came into 
use. I am inclined to think they were not, for 
a clever becker, well concealed, and in a favor¬ 
able position, can actually catch the cock birds 
with his hands, and no noise is made. Of 
course, even a skilled poacher pursuing that 
method can only bag a few brace in one night, 
and it is only very early in the season, or, say, 
a few days before the twelfth, when birds are 
abnormally high priced, that the game can be 
said to be worth the candle. 
The snaring of grouse was at one time a 
favorite form of poaching in the North of Eng¬ 
land. I have never seen it in operation in any 
form, so I must trust to the late Rev. H. A. 
Macpherson’s notes on it. That which appears, 
to be the most extensively practiced in the 
Highlands is to prepare a number of snares 
of fine wire and attach them to a stout cord, 
which is then stretched across a “stook” of 
oats, the end of the string being securely at¬ 
tached to two stakes which have been driven 
into the ground on either side of the “stook.” 
Another plan is to set a great number of snares 
in the run which the grouse make through the. 
heather when feedjng. These snares are gen-j 
erally made of fine copper wire, bent in the form 
of a loop of from five to six inches in diameter. 
The free end of the wire is doubled and attached 
to a tuft of ling by a piece of string. The loop 
of wire is often held in the proper position by 
a small cleft piece of wood. Some men take 
grouse in drag nets when the birds are roost¬ 
ing in rough grass and young heather. 
In speaking of modern methods of grouse' 
poaching I use the word “poaching” as a con¬ 
venient one, although the persons to whom it 
applies are not by any means of the ordinary 
poaching fraternity. They are “gentlemen.” At : 
all events, they are men of some means, andt 
thev follow the sport of “grouse shooting” in 
order to increase their means. They rent, 
stretches of moorland from small owners ad-| 
jacent to well preserved grouse moors and cap¬ 
ture many birds by means of stake netting dur¬ 
ing the “driving” season. These fixed nets can 
he easily shifted about, and many birds are. 
caught in flight. In many cases syndicates of 
“sportsmen.” generally from large centers of in¬ 
dustry, rent moors or bits of moors ’ for purely 
commercial purposes, and it is by these fellows 
that the market is largely supplied with the very 
earlv birds, all having been bagged before the 
twelfth. The dodges of these oeople are varied, 
and all auite legal. They flourish in many parts 
of Yorkshire, in Cumberland, Westmoreland 
and even in Northumberland, but are almost un¬ 
known in Scotland.—Glasgow Evening Times. 
WHAT RABBITS COST AUSTRALIA. 
The rabbit is an expensive little animal. A 
return has just been presented to the Parlia-1 
ment of Queensland showing how much the 
destruction of the pest has cost that State. The 
figure is a tidy one—£1,252,591. Until the early 
6o’s there were no rabbits in Australia, says 
the London Chronicle. Then some malignant 
fate prompted a squatter to import a few for 
sporting purposes. These became the progen¬ 
itors of countless millions, and the “rabbit 
plague” brought about the ruin of thousands of 
farmers. The prize of £5,000 for an effective 
exterminator has never been won. Among 
those who had a shot for it was M. Pasteur. 
All the fish laws of the United States and 
Canada, revised to date and now in force, are 
given in the Game Laws in Brief. See adv. 
