FOREST AND STREAM 
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Golf si Old Point (g mjort 
Hotel 
Chamberlin 
CNATCH a couple of days away from the 
^ grind, grab your golf clubs, of course, and 
come on down, or up, as the case may be, to 
Old Point Comfort, and try your game on the 
Eighteen Hole Golf Course, which is part of 
Hotel Chamberlain. 
You can get here easily—most likely it’s only 
“over night” from where you are, either by 
boat or rail. 
The Golf Course is one of the finest ever; designed 
and laid out by authorities on the “Royal and 
Ancient” Game-convenient to the Hotel, and, being 
owned by The Chamberlin, it is managed in a way 
which will suit you. You can, 
also, Tennis, Horseback or Mo¬ 
tor. The air and sun are just 
right to make you enjoy the 
famous real Southerti Cooking, 
and, as you know, this is all in 
addition to the location of Hotel' 
Chamberlin, at Old Point Com¬ 
fort, with its advantages of 
Army, Navy and Social Life. 
This, also, is the place to take 
“The Cure,” with every sort of 
Bath Treatment at your com¬ 
mand. 
You will be interested in our special booklet on “Golf,” as it contains 
the first Aeroplane Map of a Golf Course ever published in America. 
Address GEO. F. ADAMS, MANAGER, Fortress Monroe, Va. 
QUEBEC’S NEW GAME LAW. 
(Continued from page 57.) 
with dogs is allowed between Nov. 1 and 
10. A bounty of $15 is offered on wolves. 
The wild fowl season opens September 1. 
One new feature is that the Minister may 
offer rewards not exceeding $100 for in¬ 
formation dealing with violations of the 
law. The right to establish new closed 
seasons, suspend privileges of sale, etc., 
still rests with the Lieutenant Governor in 
Council. 
Bear are protected between July 1 and 
August 20, but the penalty imposed for the 
violation of this section—-a minimum fine 
of three dollars to a miximum of five dol¬ 
lars—seems absurdly low, contrasted with 
the fine of from fifty to one hundred dollars 
for illegally killing deer, moose or caribou. 
But Quebec deserves commendation for rec¬ 
ognizing that the bear is a game animal. 
That is more than most of the States do. 
BEST WAY TO TAN SMALL HIDES 
AND FURS. 
I have tried a number of methods for 
tanning small hides, but the fur comes 
out as soon as they are given much wear. 
Can you give me an effective and reliable 
system of tanning muskrat hides and 
squirrel skins that will bring them out 
soft and the hair firm? 
R. E. Wilson, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
Answer: A highly efficient tan liquor 
that was used by Nessmuk for many years 
is composed first of equal parts of alum 
and salt. Add two ounces of saltpetre 
to the half pound of salt. Half a pound 
of alum, half a pound of salt; 2 ounces 
of rock salt will make a gallon of solu¬ 
tion, and in this you submerge the skins. 
Stir the skins and work them till they 
are soft, and leave in the tan four or 
five days. When thoroughly softened and 
well saturated with the liquor, take them 
out and wring them dry. Dip them in 
fresh water (rain water is best for mak¬ 
ing solution and rinsing). If you want 
a soft tan skin, work them and twist 
them till they are dry, and they will be 
soft. When working the skins be careful 
that you do not tear them. If they are 
worked over a smoke fire—over a smudge, 
they will always dry soft, like smoke tan 
brain buckskin. When they are wet, they 
must be worked till dry unless the smoke 
tan is given them; toward the last of the 
drying a little vaseline can be worked into 
them with good results. If you wish a 
poison tan, work in arsenic soap before 
tanning—then wash out and tan. Skins 
tanned this way will last for years; the 
secret of success lies in the constant work¬ 
ing you give them while tanning.— Ed.] 
WINTER TOURNAMENT LONG ISLAND 
CASTING CLUB. 
HE winter surf-casting tournament of 
the Long Island Casting Club will be 
held on February twenty-fifth at Grant 
City, Staten Island. The committee in 
charge has arranged a program which will 
be found particularly attractive to the vis¬ 
itor and hearby extends a hearty invitation 
to members of all other surf fishing clubs 
and to the unattached caster to attend and 
compete. 
This invitation does not apply solely to 
the long caster, who has been doing all of 
the inter-club visiting in the past, but to 
the middle distance and short casters. 
Three of the four events are open to all. 
These are as follows: No. 1. Longest cast 
of three, open field. No. 2. Average of 
five casts, open field, three classes. No. 3. 
Accuracy-distance, average of five casts, 
three classes. 
The single club event is No. 4, average of 
three casts, “V’-shaped court, three classes. 
Three or four-ounce leads as desired may 
be used in all events. 
In events two, three and four the J. M. 
Gentle system of percentage classification 
will receive its first trial. In this system 
the limits of the classes depend entirely 
upon the top score in each event, seventy- 
five per cent, thereof being taken as the 
top limit of the second class and fifty per 
cent, as the top limit of the third class. 
Thus if the high average in Event 2 is 
found to be three hundred and forty feet, 
two hundred and fifty-five feet, or seventy- 
five per cent., becomes the top limit of 
Class 2 and one hundred and seventy feet 
the top limit of Class 3. 
Heretofore, visiting at tournaments has 
been confined to the top-notchers. It is 
hoped that our tournament will bring out 
as visitors all classes of casters, for we 
are out to boom the surf cast, the longest 
cast in the world. 
Fred S. Fech. 
