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FOREST AND STREAM 
January, 1918 
PHOTOGRAPHY 
BEST DEVELOPING, PRINTING IN COUN- 
ty. Ssnd 3c for circulars or 15c and roll for 
sample developing, printing. Rare bargains used 
cameras. Miles F. Greenwood, Melrose, Massa¬ 
chusetts. 1 t 
FOR CAMERAS, KODAKS, LENSES, SHUT- 
ters, imported cameras, motion picture cameras, 
go to Koehler’s Camera Exchange, Inc., and get 
the Squarest Deal, 7 East 14th St., N. Y. (1) 
“FOTO FREAKS AND HELPFUL HINTS” 
(copyrighted). How to make: Photos; on sta¬ 
tionery, moonlight, disappearing, firelight, flower, 
portrait, two-colors. Many others. 50c. List 
contents for stamp. F. Van Wormer, Yamhill, 
Oregon. 1 t 
HANDSOME, HAND COLORED 8 x 10 EN- 
largetnents. Made from negatives or films, mount¬ 
ed 65c prepaid. J. Gonder, 319 Tremont Ave., 
East Orange, New Jersey. (1) 
YOUR FIRST ROLL OF FILMS DEVELOPED 
and printed, 10 cents. Special Trial Offer. Any 
size. 6 prints free. Or 6 prints from Kodak 
negative any size for 10c. Extra work addi¬ 
tional. Roanoke Photo Finishing Company, 220 
Bell Ave., Roanoke, Va. (3 t 2-18-C) 
PIGEONS 
FOR SALE—HOMERS. WM. OSTERWISCH, 
New Memphis, Ill. 1 t 
POULTRY 
PIT GAME FOWL—YOUNG TRIOS $7.00. 
Walter Forrister, Framingham, Mass. 3-3-18 
POTASH SPAR POULTRY GRIT—A SMALL 
order will bring large orders: 1 50 lb. sack Hen 
or Turkey size; 1 50 lb. sack Pigeon or Pullet 
size; 1 50 lb. sack Chick or Bird size (For $1.00). 
E. S. Beiler, Parkesburg, Pa. 1 t 
PURE GAME FIGHTING FOWLS—ILLUS- 
trated folder free. Fine Hunting Dogs, Point¬ 
ers, Setters, Hounds, Airedale, Collies. Any Pet 
stock or Land or water fowls. Tell me your 
requirements. Alfred Graham, Cameron, N. C. 
1 t 
REAL ESTATE 
A GOOD WATER-FRONT AT A BARGAIN- 
460 acres on the Historic Elk River; 200 acres 
tillable, balance in timber, J4 mile good water¬ 
front with fine building sites; also fair farm 
buildings. Would make an excellent game pre¬ 
serve. Price $15,000. F. H. Thompson, North 
East, Md. (1) 
DAKOTA LANDS—$1,000. 160 ACRES RICH 
prairie land. Ten years, sell $16,000. Cultivate 
every acre. Investigate. Write for plats, maps. 
Hobart Land Co., Minneapolis, Minn. 1 t 
FLORIDA—FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE FIF- 
teen acres of Florida land, ten acres in three- 
year old grove of late oranges and grape fruit. 
Write C. Broad, 200 Franklin St., Wilkinsburg, 
Pa. 1 t 
LARGE AND SMALL FARMS AND STORE— 
Healthy Section. Reasonable terms. E. Wit- 
more, Nottoway, Virginia. 1 t 
WYOMING LAND—THOUSANDS ACRES 
United States Oil Lands formerly held for Navy, 
open for filing. Our bulletin tells how to se¬ 
cure it. Claim Holders’ Association, F S, 703 
Schiller Bldg., Chicago. 2-2-18 
10 ACRES CHOICE BLACK LAND, 5 MILES 
south of the court house, will in a few years, 
at the rate this city is growing, be worth a for¬ 
tune; $300 per acre will buy it on easy terms. 
David Hannah, Houston, Texas. 1 t 
80-ACRE FARM. SPRING, IMPROVED, NEAR 
town, $1,000. Chis Veasman, Dixon, Mo. It 
FOR SALE—154 ACRES FINE HUNTING 
grounds borders large lake; lots of game such as 
rabbits, squirrels, pheasants, quail, etc., ever run¬ 
ning stream through centre, good fishing, 10 min¬ 
utes’ walk to Elmer Station, Salem County, N. J.; 
27 miles to, Philadelphia; fine train service. Price, 
$2500. Address, Win. M. Wheatley, Elmer, N. J. 
l.t.K. 
REAL ESTATE 
THE HON. M. J. HAPGOOD OF PERU, VER- 
mont, who has deeply interested himself in the 
protection of deer and the preservation of the 
forest, having deeded, Mt. Bromley, one of the 
most prominent mountains of the state and cov¬ 
ered with virgin forest to the government upon 
condition that no trees shall ever be cut upon 
it, offers his immense tract of timber for sale, 
but desires that it shall be sold to parties who 
will not cut upon it to destroy it, but practice 
only forestry principles. To such parties he of¬ 
fers special prices and terms. Marshall J. Hap- 
good, Peru, Vermont. (11) 
THOUSANDS ACRES UNITED STATES OIL 
lands, formerly held for navy, open for filing. 
Our bulletin tells how to secure it. Claim Hold¬ 
ers Ass’n, 721 Schiller Bldg., Chicago. l.t.K. 
REAL ESTATE FOR SPORTSMEN 
ALABAMA—$750 BUYS 5 ACRES ON RIVER, 
boat landing, fresh and salt water fishing, fine 
for club. DeCoudres, Bangor, Michigan. 1 t 
A VERITABLE LITTLE SWITZERLAND- 
10,000 acres. Ideally adapted sportsmen Game 
preserve. Fertile Valleys; Picturesque Plateaus 
with long gentle slopes; exceptionally well watered. 
Price $2 an acre. Easy terms. Write Virginia 
Land Bureau, 903 Oliver Building, Pittsburgh, 
Pa. (Several smaller tracts also). 1 t 
BARGAIN AT BLUEMONT—TWO ACRES 
with new cottage and orchard; on top Blue Ridge 
Mountain; ten minutes from Washington inter- 
urban. Owner leaving United States and prop¬ 
erty must be sold at once. For description and 
particulars write or wire Walter E. Blount, 
Bluemont, Va., or Lieut C. L. Ordeman, Fort 
Howard, Md. 
SNICKERS’ GAP, VA.—BUSINESS OPPOR- 
tunity for lover of mountains, or person seeking 
improvement in health. Unique and artistic bunga¬ 
low store located in historic Gap, 10 minutes walk 
from Bluemont at cross-roads of Bluemont and 
Winchester Pike and mountain road along which 
is located an extensive Washington summer col¬ 
ony. Several boys and girls’ camps. Across the 
road from the Demonet Hotel property. Con¬ 
stant motor traffic passing daily. Store equipt 
with marble soda fountain, automatic scales, cash 
register, etc. Three acres, large bungalo ware¬ 
house, drilled well and water tank on steel tower, 
orchard of apples, pears, plums, peaches and 
quinces; also tennis court. New five room bun¬ 
galow cottage with two acres adjoining can be 
bought with this property if desired or owner 
can live at boarding house nearby. Can be used 
as a clubhouse or converted into attractive dwell¬ 
ing at small cost. The most centrally located 
property in this section. Trolley brings great 
numbers of excursionists every Sunday from 
Washington, a distance of fifty iles. Owner 
otherwise engaged so will sell far below cost. 
Walter E. Blount, Bluemont, Va. 
ON BEAUTIFUL SHENANDOAH—I OWN 
five hundred acres from top of Blue Ridge Moun¬ 
tains down west slope to the Shenandoah river. 
My orchard is only sixty acres while the rest is 
wild wooded mountain slopes with beautiful moun¬ 
tain torrent passing into river through pictur¬ 
esque gorge. Pine covered river front slope ap¬ 
peals to the canoeist. Splendid fishing and hunt¬ 
ing. One mile from New York to Atlanta Pike. 
Electric suburban from Washington. Summer 
homes of Washington colony along mountain 
ridge. Can and will suit the proper purchaser 
both as to land and price. Walter E. Blount, 
Bluemont, Va. 
BARGAIN AT BLUEMONT—155 ACRES ON 
western slope of Blue Ridge ideally adapted to 
Gun Club. Partly under cultivation. Five room 
bungalow with broad porch looking west. Bold, 
never failing spring nearby. Soil and slope ideal 
for apples, or would make an equally good chic¬ 
ken ranch. One mile by county road from Blue¬ 
mont and Winchester Pike. Quarter mile from 
Shenandoah river. Fine hunting and fishing. 
Stream runs through property which can be 
dammed and stocked with fish at small cost. 
Fifty miles from Washington by trolley. Wash¬ 
ington summer colony occupies mountain ridge. 
Will sell for little more than cost of house. 
Walter E. Blount, Bluemont, Va. l.t. 
HOW TO MAKE THE 
ANGLER’S BEST FLIES 
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bility, is delicate strips of crude rubber 
manipulated after the method of the late 
H. G. McClelland, a lamented contributor 
to the London Fishing Gazette, which will 
be detailed later on. And strips of vul¬ 
canized rubber cut from a very thin sheet 
and put on the stretch have been utilized 
for covering colored bodies to impart a 
more natural appearance. 
Wings. —But including the whole fly— 
body, wings, legs, and tail—there is scarce¬ 
ly a beast or bird of the field, or bird of 
the air or of the water, that does not pay 
tribute to the fly-tyer. The quaint old poet 
Gay has put this prettily into verse: 
‘‘To furnish the little animal, provide 
All the gay hues that wait on female prid^; 
Let nature guide thee—sometimes golden wire 
The shining bellies of the fly require; 
The peacock’s plumes thy tackle must not fail; 
Nor the dear purchase of the' sable’s tail. 
Each gaudy bird some slender tribute brings 
And lends the glowing insect proper wings. 
Silks of all colors must their aid impart, 
And every fur promotes the fisher’s art; 
So the gay lady with extensive care 
Borrows the pride of land, of sea, of air; 
Furs, pearls, and plumes the glittering thing dis¬ 
plays; 
Dazzles our eyes and easy hearts betrays.” 
Turkey tail-feathers, the plumes or brsast- 
and wing-feathers of the swan, domestic 
goose, duck and pigeon, the guinea-hen, 
wood-duck, gray and brown mallards, 
heron, woodcock, grouse, partridge, blue- 
jay, and starling are mostly in demand for 
wings. Feathers from waterfowl are gen¬ 
erally preferred, but nearly all the varie¬ 
ties needed are obtainable from domestic 
hens, turkeys, pigeons, and ducks. On 
some flies whole small breast-feathers are 
used for wings instead of strips cut out 
from the web of the wing-feathers, and, 
again, the tips of small hackle-feathers are 
occasionally employed. 
F OR a transparent substance at once 
suitably delicate and durable, re¬ 
course is had to the scales of shad, 
pike or herring, and to the splitting of 
certain quills, as that from the root of a 
crow’s feather, to obtain their inner mem¬ 
branes ; soaking in hot water facilitates 
this. All these materials should be soft¬ 
ened in warm water before tying them. 
If they will take a dye some extraordinar¬ 
ily fine results might be produced. 
In handling dsh-scalcs, first sort them, 
discarding those too small or imperfect 
for use, and then separate the remainder 
into three classes, first and second selec¬ 
tion and w’hat is left. The largest and 
best formed will go into the A-i class. 
They are readily sorted by picking up a 
mass of them with the left hand, from a 
shallow dish of water in which they have 
been soaking (just water enough to cover 
them well), separating them by sliding be¬ 
tween the thumb and fingers and then by 
picking them up one by one with thumb- 
forceps and laying them down on a sheet 
of paper to dry. They will curl up in 
drying, but are easily flattened just before 
use, by wetting them again and then re¬ 
drying between sheets of blotting-paper, 
with a weight on them, or by ironing them 
between dampened cloths. * 
Hackles. —True hackles, the long slen¬ 
der feathers with fine quill and stiff read¬ 
ily-separating web, from high upon the 
