57 
January, 1918 
FOREST AND STREAM 
THE WATER-WASTES 
(continued from page 23 ) 
and piping hot coffee with condensed milk! 
There was promise of fried fish, too, in 
the morning, and lines were put in order 
for a six o’clock try for fresh-water 
Chub and Sunfish, both of which had 
been observed along the grassy shores of 
the Island. 
In the meanwhile, Catlow had ascended 
to the topmost branches of the Observa¬ 
tion Bay tree. It was some quarter of a 
mile away, through the myrtles, but he 
would not wait for morning. 
“Wild cats!” Mr. King had cautioned. 
“Leave ’em to THIS,” was Catlow’s only 
rejoinder, patting his Winchester. 
“It’s too dark to see very much,” Cat- 
low’s chum suggested. 
“I can’t sleep until I’ve had a look 
around from the top of that grand old 
bay,” was the determined answer. 
He returned, just as darkness was clos¬ 
ing in. They could hear his whoops and 
hurrahs long before his radiant face peered 
through the foliage at them, in the yellow 
circle of fire-light. 
“It’s ALL RIGHT!” he shouted, “talk 
about your ‘commanding position’; that 
tree was better than Anastasia Light. I 
could see for miles ! Better water—GOOD 
water, to the Northwest from here. We’ll 
be well out of this in another twenty-four 
hours. Now Chef—serve your supper !” 
(to be continued next month) 
CULTIVATING SILK¬ 
WORM GUT 
(continued from page 47 ) 
strand of Spanish gut has done. Still the 
extreme length of the imported article is 
eighteen or twenty inches, while the native 
product is three or four times as long. 
Strands tied together are not as strong as 
the single one, because the knot is the 
weakest part of the leader. A leader test¬ 
ing up to eight or nine pounds is there¬ 
fore a very strong one. It is not improb¬ 
able that a better variety of food, or a 
different pickling solution, or a careful 
breeding of worms to secure desired quali¬ 
ties, may produce an article superior to 
anything which I have been able to get, 
thus far. I have gone about the matter in 
an amateurish way, and have produced re¬ 
sults far exceeding my first hopes. 
I consider the field a promising one. A 
first-class salmon leader, for instance, is 
listed at five dollars, and is the product of 
several Asiatic silkworms. A cecropia 
strand, of equal length, and testing up to 
four or five pounds, has been produced. A 
cecropia caterpillar has two silk sacs and 
yields two strands of gut. It is possible, 
therefore, that with really scientific study 
and manipulation one cecropia worm might 
produce ten dollars’ worth of gut. If one 
caterpillar in a hundred did, the occupa¬ 
tion would be profitable. The raw mate¬ 
rials, cocoons, moths, eggs, or caterpillars, 
cost nothing to collect, and at present very 
little to buy. Surely some person of more 
scientific bent than myself with persistence 
and scientific research will work out a 
product which will be the best of its kind. 
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