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Amateurs Shoot the Powder They Prefer 
THE OFFICIAL RECORDS 
on single targets for 1910 show the following 
high amateur winners : 
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1st—J. S. DAY, Midland, Texas 4164x4280 -97.289! 
2 d-F.S. WRIGHT, SouthWales,N.Y. 1977x2055 - 96.2091 
3 d—J,R. GRAHAM, Ingleside, Ill. 5721x5970-95.82% 
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Mr. Day shot BALLISTITE and “INFALLIBLE” 
in making these scores with the exception of 
one tournament. Eliminating his score at that 
shoot, his average would he 97.39%. 
Messrs. Wright and Graham shot DU PONT Powders exclusively 
in making the above scores. 
History Repeats Itself 
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over a larger territory, temporary collecting sta¬ 
tions have been located at Caruthersville, Mo., 
and Rosedale, Miss., which will be made perma¬ 
nent auxiliary stations if experience proves 
favorable. It is believed that similar inexpen¬ 
sive stations can be advantageously established 
at various points on the Mississippi River from 
New Orleans to St. Paul, as the field for this 
work is extensive and the number of fish that 
can be economically reclaimed from the drying 
sloughs and lakes is governed only by the amount 
of money available for the pui pose. 
Although the propagation and general distri¬ 
bution of carp was discontinued many years ago, 
the Bureau constantly receives applications for 
this fish, and in instances where the waters de¬ 
scribed are unsuited to other species, the rz- 
vith by transferring carp 
quests are complied 
from other waters. 
After nearly forty years of endeavor to estab¬ 
lish the chinook salmon of the Pacific coast in 
waters of the United States where it is not in¬ 
digenous, conclusive evidence of success in one 
instance has come to hand. Within the past year 
it has been ascertained that the species has be¬ 
come established in Lake Sunapee, New Hamp¬ 
shire, where numerous specimens from three to 
five pounds in weight have been taken by ang¬ 
lers. This is undoubtedly the result of a plant 
made in 1904 by the New Hampshire Fish Com¬ 
mission, the eggs having been supplied from the 
Bureau’s hatchery at Baird, Cal. Encouraged by 
the outcome of this experiment, the Bureau made 
a plant of 40,000 fingerling chinook salmon m 
Lake Champlain in the spring of 1910. 
There unquestionably has been an increase in 
Atlantic salmon-in the Penobscot River, as evi¬ 
denced by the results of the Bureau’s operations 
in 1910 compared with 1908 and 1909. Though 
_• •_Q smaller number of weirs 
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receiving the catch of a smaller number of weirs 
the past season, the collection of spawning fish 
was twice as great as in 1909 and 60 per cent. , 
greater than in T908. 
It is believed that owing to the planting of 
the species by the Bureau, pike perch have be¬ 
come sufficiently abundant in the St. Lawrence 
River 4 to warrant the collection of eggs at the 
Cape Vincent station, and plans will be made 
accordingly. 
It is again urged that provision be made for 
the establishment of additional stations for the 
rescue of fishes from overflowed lands in the 
Mississippi Valley. Millions of fish now an 
nually left by the receding waters to die of ex- 
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posure can by this means be saved at small ex¬ 
pense. 
The Bureau is of the opinion that a highly 
important work of the near future will be the j 
stocking of ponds and streams on the farms of , 
the country with hardy species of fish requiting 
little care or attention and omnivorous as to diet. 
The several species of catfishes appear to fulfill 
the requirements more completely than any other j 
fish. They will grow in sluggish and muddy 
water, they are very tenacious of life, their diet 
is of wide variety, and as food they are ex¬ 
celled by but few fresh water fish. While some 
of the smaller species can be made important 
additions to the home food supplies of the 
farms, certain others, particularly the larger 
ones, are already the basis of important com¬ 
mercial fisheries For the propagation of both 
kinds the establishment of a station at some 
