SEPTEMBER, 1917 
EXPERIMENTS WITH SEAL SKINS 
The dressed and machined skins of three 
Alaskan 5-year-old fur seals have been re¬ 
ceived by the Bureau of Fisheries. These 
skins have about twice the area of the 
skins from an average 3-year-old seal and 
were regarded by experts as fully equal 
in quality to the average skin of the 
younger seals that have heretofore made 
up the quota for the natives’ use. A lim¬ 
ited number of skins from seals 5 years old 
was taken last year on the Pribilof Islands 
for experimental purposes. In view of the 
probable high market value of such pelts 
and the comparatively large number of 
male seals of this age on the islands, the 
Secretary of Commerce has approved the 
recommendation of the Commissioner of 
Fisheries that a sufficient number of such 
skins be taken this season to enable the 
Bureau to fully determine how they will 
be received by the trade and the best uses 
to which skins of such size may be put. 
Two expert seal skinners from New¬ 
foundland and two sealskin specialists will 
proceed to the Pribilof Islands on the 
steamer Roosevelt for the purpose of as¬ 
sisting the agents and instructing the na¬ 
tives in taking and preparing sealskins. In 
arranging for the presence of these men 
on the seal islands during the present sea¬ 
son the Bureau has had in view the modern 
requirements of the fur trade and the in¬ 
creased task that will be thrown on the 
local force when commercial seal killing is 
resumed. 
THINGS TO REMEMBER 
That the man who makes up his own out¬ 
fit gets the most joy out of his vacation? 
that the fellow who sews his own tents, 
packsacks and blankets shows the badge of 
a real woodsman. 
That he who can take things as they 
come in camp without a moan or a groan 
and who does his chores cheerfully is the 
one for you to keep on your list for the 
next trip. 
That the one who is forever complain¬ 
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bossing and the least work is the one whom 
Nature never intended for camping out. 
That the one who has a grouch on when 
he reaches camp with an empty creel, or 
misses “that buck” and cusses and cannot 
find sufficient pleasure in the woods other¬ 
wise, is not a sportsman in the true sense 
of the word. 
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GETTING LOST 
The real sportsman is the one who can 
proudly say “I got lost.” So don’t be 
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ever hanging on to your guide’s coat-tails. 
Here are a few pointers that may come in 
handy in case you do really get lost and 
separated from your food-supply: 
The inner bark of white cedar, gray, 
white and yellow birch taste good to the 
lost man in the woods. 
The tips of young boughs of hemlock 
make a sweetish drink. 
The fellow who comes home after his 
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but I did some roughing it,” is just the one 
who knows absolutely nothing of camping, 
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