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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[June io, 1911. 
Are You A Gunner? 
Do you love to follow your good dog over the fields in search of quail or chickens, or to struggle 
through swamp or along thick grown hillside, expecting to hear the roar of the ruffed grouse or 
the twitter of the fall woodcock ? If so, you should have this new book. 
AMERICAN GAME BIRD SHOOTING 
By GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL 
(New—Just Published) 
This companion volume to “American Duck Shooting” treats of the upland game which American 
sportsmen shoot over dogs—woodcock, snipe, all the quail, grouse and turkeys. 
The first part of the volume is devoted to a description of the various species and their habits—the 
way in which they live their lives. 
The second part of the book is devoted to upland shooting and treats of the methods by which all the 
upland birds are pursued and taken. The chapter “Aids to Shooting” describes the clothing, guns, 
and loads and dogs that the gunner may profitably use; while the last section of the book treats of the 
shooting of the future and the efforts to rear our native quail and grouse in domestication. 
The volume is illustrated by colored plates of ruffed grouse and quail, and 48 full page portraits of 
different game birds and hunting scenes, with a number of cuts in the text. 
Cloth. About 575 pages. Price $3.50, net. Postage 25 cents. 
This book is of inestimable value. It contains the genuine hunter- 
naturalist facts given in the most entertaining and interesting style. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO., 127 Franklin St., NEW YORK CITY 
Newtown Gun Club. 
Newton, Ill., June 2. —Our two-day tournament ended 
this afternoon. The attendance was not what we had 
expected. Gilbert and Graham tied for first with the 
cracking score of 
291 
out of 
300. J. A. Penn was 
high 
amateur with 278. 
Scores: 
C Franke . 
. 250 
J A Penn.. 
.. 278 
1 S Boa. 
. 246 
II Durbin .. 
C II Albright. 
. 241 
W H Haws. 
.. 220 
Geo E Roebuck.. 
. 267 
G S Batman. 
.. 225 
R T Gasserman... 
. 237 
D B Haven. 
.. 245 
E E Neal. 
. 178 
F A Albright. 
.. 142 
G L Robbins. 
. 277 
Professionals: 
F Gilbert . 
. 291 
W Benton . 
,. 276 
(i Mathews . 
. 273 
A Killam . 
. 279 
Ed Graham . 
. 291 
H W Cadwallader.... 
,. 275 
Mineral 
Springs Gun Club. 
Willow Grove, June 3.—A small attendance marked 
the regular monthly shoot of the Mineral Springs Gun 
Club at this place, but fairly good scores marked the 
event. Houpt won a special trophy. The scores: 
hirst event, 25 targets: Houpt 22, Hiltebietle 16, Pier- 
son 17, Carney 8, Nash 16, Mason IS, Felton 15, Ritchie 
11, Andrews 13, Cooke 18. 
Second event, 25 targets: Houpt 23, Hiltebietle 18, 
Pierson 18, Carney 10, Nash 15, Mason 16, Felton 15, 
Ritchie 18, Andrews 17, Cooke 19. 
Third event, 25 targets: Houpt 24, Hiltebietle 16, Pier-' 
son 16, Carney 10. 
Fourth event, 25 targets: Houpt 21, Hiltebietle 18, Pier¬ 
son 20, Carney 10. 
Houpt won high gun for the shoot with 90 breaks out 
of 100 targets shot at. 
Trapshooting Tourney. 
Philadelphia, Pa., June 4.— The arrangements for the 
third annual camp of the sportsmen of Pennsylvania at 
Huntingdon on June 28, 29 and 30 are nearly completed. 
J he trapshooting tournament will take two days, and it 
is arranged specially in the interests of novices and 
those who have never before shot from behind a trap. 
The program is so arranged that everyone, no matter how 
inexperienced, has a splendid opportunity to capture 
one of the valuable trophies without other payment than 
the usual tournament cost of targets. 
The shooters will be divided into four classes, from 
which professionals are excluded from competing for 
trophies. They are experts, semi-experts, novices and 
those who never before shot at targets. This method 
insures equitable competition, and each man only ac¬ 
tually contests with those of his own ability. Neither 
are the best prizes given to the best shooters, as it is the 
object of the makers of the program to make the 
trophies equal in value in each class. 
The DuPont Gun Club. 
Wilmington, Del., June 4.—There was a good at¬ 
tendance at the regular weekly shoot of the Du Pont 
Gun Club at Newbridge yesterday afternoon. It was a 
splendid day for shooting, and some good scores were 
made. Frank Mathewson had a run of 25 straight in the 
T. Coleman du Pont merchandise event, winning the 
silver spoon in Class A. J. B. McHugh also shot well, 
breaking 93 out of 100, also getting a run of 25. Isaac 
Turner, with a score of 21 out of 25, was the winner in 
Class B. In Class C, Louis Koerner took first place, 20 
out of 25. Class D ended in a tie at 15 out of 25 between 
Dr. Bullock and S. Wood. 
DOGFISH PLAYING HAVOC WITH 
NOVA SCOTIAN FISHING. 
Veteran fishermen working out of this con¬ 
sular district, says Consul Alfred J. Fleming, 
of Yarmouth, report dogfish more numerous 
than at any other period in the history of the 
fishing industry in this section. 
They report them great pests, and that if 
something is not or cannot be done to destroy 
them, a few years will see the ending of that 
vocation so far as the south-shore fishing 
grounds along the Nova Scotia coast are con¬ 
cerned. The Yarmouth fleet in past years 
would go out 20 to 40 miles and with three or 
four days’ good fishing weather would return 
with $500 and $600 worth of good fish. This 
season they are out fully a week and come in 
and feel grateful for half that amount. 
They report that day after day the trawls are 
taken in loaded with little else than dogfish. 
This takes the bait, which is quite expensive, in 
addition to taking the fishermen’s time, and 
constantly decreasing the fishing results. The 
past summer the dogfish-rendering works at 
Clarks Harbor, about seventy miles from here, 
has been operating double shift, night and day 
forces, and yet is unable to consume all the dog¬ 
fish that the three or four chartered vessels 
bring in. Thousands of pounds of these fish 
have been reduced to oil and fertilizer sub¬ 
stances, and yet the pests show no decrease, but 
rather a constantly increasing supply. Often 
the vessels at the local stations for gathering 
the fish for the works are unable to carry the 
fish on hand. 
These dogfish not only play havoc with the 
cod, haddock, and other fish, but they are very 
detrimental to mackerel and lobsters, and if 
something is not done fishing in this immediate 
vicinity will end in a few years, as the increase 
of dogfish means clearly a decrease of food fish. 
No remedy other than the rendering works has 
been suggested. Fishermen from this section 
and from all south-shore sections must now 
go much further to get out of reach of the dog¬ 
fish rendezvous. 
These dogfish not only take the bait and es¬ 
cape, but when “hooked,” it is not possible for 
the men at sea in their dories to destroy them, 
as they do not often have the time, especially 
in high seas, or when a storm is coming. They 
are also very destructive to gear, causing much 
loss of money in that way. The mackerel in¬ 
dustry in this section has been bad for a num¬ 
ber of years, all charged to the dogfish. Fish¬ 
ermen would hail with joy some one who would 
come forward with some practical method of 
doing away with these pests. 
EXPERT OPINION. 
The Angler—Is this public water for fishing? 
The Native—Oh, aye! 
The Angler—Then it won’t be a crime to land 
a fish? 
The Native—No; it ’ud be a blooming miracle! 
—The Tatler. 
