FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Dec. 25, 1909. a 
KONRAD SCHAUER,MOMBASA, BRITISH EAST AFRICA 
The world-known firm of specialists 
for organizing and fitting out 
Hunting and Scientific Expeditions 
as well as planning trips for 
TOURISTS 
Practical preserving, packing and shipping 
of Trophies — many years’ experience. 
“KIJABE HILL." A splendid health resort in the African Highlands— 
“A Sportsman’s Home.” 
The largest dealers in live animals and African curios. 
Illustrated literature sent free on application. 
Sportsmen's "Resorts. 
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 arrangement* 
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 6 th 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. 
BAGLEY FARM, BAG i^„ s ,. 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 
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. 
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, 
Vale, Sussex County, Virginia.—Do you shoot? Do you 
(enow a place where you can take your wife and yet have 
’good quail shooting, dogs, livery and guides, good table, 
ind everything conducive to a pleasant outing? 
! C. & L. P. BLOW. 
EXCLUSIVE HUNTING ON 25,000 ACRES. 
furnishing first-class accommodations, guides, livery, 
aunting lands and trained dogs for the hunting of quail, 
vild turkeys and deer. Northern references. Special 
Intention to parties containing ladies. Trained and 
mtrained quail dogs for sale. 
Dr. H. L. ATKINS, Boydton, Va. 
NOTICE! 
| Being on my way to Africa, I hope to be in New York 
•t the end of January, and would like to meet one or 
riore gentlemen wishing to make a trip to that country, 
•'he best of sport guaranteed at the smallest cost. Apply 
'OIIN A. M. LETHBRIDGE, care Forest and Stream. 
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and allied topics. Sample 5 cents. Yearly $1.50 _ 
A. R. HARDING PUB. CO. Box 849, Columbus, Ohio, tf 
MY SIXTY YEARS ON 
THE PLAINS 
Trae Pictures of a Vanished Life 
"BILL” HAMILTON 
Appropriately enough W. T. Hamilton, the 
last survivor of the old race of free trappers, 
became the author of one of the best pen pic¬ 
tures of the old life of the plains and moun¬ 
tains ever written. 
No work of fiction offers more adventure, 
more thrills of desperate bravery, heroic en¬ 
durance and hair breadth escape than this un¬ 
adorned narrative of the life of the old trap¬ 
per and plainsman, the companion of Bill 
Williams, Jim Baker, Carson, Bridges and the 
rest whose names are household words. 
“Sixty Years on the Plains” is all that the 
name signifies and more. It depicts every phase 
of frontier life, hunting, trapping, Indian fight¬ 
ing, the beginnings of Empire building. From 
the store house of sixty years of wonderfully 
full exprience, Mr. Hamilton drew the material 
for a book of splendid interest and real value. 
Cloth, Illustrated. 
Postpaid, $1.50 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
HITTING vs. MISSING. 
By S. T. Hammond (“Shadow”). Cloth. Price, $1.00. 
Mr. Hammond enjoys among his field companions the 
repute of being an unusually good shot, and one who is 
particularly successful in that most difficult branch of 
upland shooting, the pursuit of the ruffed grouse, or 
partridge. This prompted the suggestion that he should 
write down for others an exposition of the methods by 
which his skill was acquired. The result is this original 
manual of “Hitting vs. Missing.” We term it original, 
because, as the chapters will show, the author was self- 
taught; the expedients and devices adopted and the forms 
of practice followed were his own. This then may be 
termed the Hammond system of shooting; and as it was 
successful in his own experience, being here set forth 
simply and intelligently, it will prove not less effective 
with others. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
of the Oregon Audubon Society, and field 
lecturer for the national associations of Audu¬ 
bon societies, who is attending the National ' 
Irrigation Congress this morning, these birds ’ 
are literally slaughtered yearly by the plume 9” 
hunters, who make as high as $1,200 in the -J 
day and a half that they work at killing the 
birds. The aigrets grow only at the breeding ; 
season of the year, and when the herons 1, ' • 
colonize each year during this particular sea-T, 
son, the hunters get on their trail and when the _ 
plumes are at their height in beauty, arrange If 
their blinding traps and shoot them by the*’ 
hundred. 1 t 
In speaking of the phase of the depredations 1 
of the plume hunters, urged on by the fancy k . 
prices which the public pays for the plumes, Mr. - 
Finley said: 
“These plumes sell for as high as $50 an 1 
ounce, and when one thinks how many feathers 
so light and downy as an aigret it takes to 
weigh a pound, he must know that there are 
scores of the birds killed in a single day, where*, 
one man makes almost $i,ooo. Several seasons fu. 
of this kind of plume hunting and the bird is ~ 
gone from a locality, and now almost extermi¬ 
nated in some sections of the country where the 
plume hunters are at work. That is why th© • 
Audubon Society wants to suppress the sale of g; 
the plumes of this and like nature.” 
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THE PIPE CALABASH. 
Pipes made from the South African calabash," 
or gourd, have created considerable interest in I* 
the growth of the vine. It is a native of South a 
Africa. The use of the calabash as a pipe bowl ; k fo5 
was discovered by the Boers, and after the 
Boer war they were introduced in England and 
from there were brought to this country. The L 
Boers attempted to monopolize the product -Jitl 
and to prevent the exportation of seed, but - 
failed, and there is now a supply of the seed s 
in this country. The vine grows luxuriantly “ 
and produces a large crop of gourds, but many 
of them have to be rejected for pipe making, 
either on account of defective growth or of 
insect bites which mar the surface. The pipes 
are graceful and distinctive in shape, no two _ 
being alike. They color like meerschaum, and ‘ 
are delightful smokers. The imported pipes i 
sell for from $8 to $12 each. One of the rea¬ 
sons for their high price is the necessity for U 
hand work in their manufacture, as, on account t 
of their varying shapes and sizes, machine work 
is not practicable. The growing, drying and - ‘ 
shaping of these gourds should be interesting, 
and they can be easily made into pipes by buy- „ , 
ing inside bowls and mouthpieces. 
The United States Department of Agricul-*' 1 
ture has issued a circular (No. 41, Bureau of 
Plant Industry) on the subject, giving informa¬ 
tion in regard to the securing of seed, growing 
the plant, and making the pipes, which will be Y 1 
sent free to all who apply for it. 
AN UNEXPECTED BAG. 
The Thanksgiving snowstorm, which was the 
earliest in this section in eleven years, says a 
Middletown. N. Y., correspondent of the Times, 
was responsible for the greatest slaughter of ■} 
rabbits ever known so early in the season in i 
Orange and Sullivan counties. It is estimated r 
that over 1,000 rabbits have been killed in these “ J 
counties within two days. This morning 
two hunters from this city shot twenty five •> ■" 
rabbits within two hours, and another man got tf ) 
eight rabbits and a fox without using either 
gun or dog. 
John Dorgan, an aged resident of Rockville, 
who has never shot a gun in his life, started out >' f ' 
this morning to get a rabbit for dinner. He I 
carried a pick and shovel with the idea of track- 3 , 
ing a rabbit to a hole in the ground and dig¬ 
ging it out. He succeeded in finding rabbit ' 
tracks and traced them to a hole. After dig- ' J)!1 
ging for half an hour he came upon a red fox, 
which he killed with a blow with the pick. 
Certain that there was also a rabbit in the 
hole, he kept on digging, and finally discovered fr¬ 
eight of the furry animals tightly jammed in ' 
the hole. 
