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FOREST A N D S T REA M 
November, 1918 
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that for just 10 cents a day 
you can give a child to France? 
The men of France have died lighting our battles. 
The women and children of France are left to bear the burden. 
$36.50 a year, added to the small allowance of the French Govern¬ 
ment. will save a child for the new France. Will you subscribe 
$ .10 a day 
3.00 a month 
36.50 a year; payable monthly, quarterly or yearly 
Every penny of the money collected goes to the children. Expenses 
are paid from a separate fund. 
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ally, France. 
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little child in France vou will know how much it means there. 
$ .10 keeps a child 1 day 
3.00 “ “ 44 1 mo. 
36.50 “ “ “ 1 yr. 
73.00 “ 44 44 2 yrs. 
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myself 7 
to give ($.for. 
Date 
hoy 
girl 
aged.... in its own home for.... years 
..children in their own homes for....years 
1 enclose herewith '$. 
part payment for the above and pledge myself 
total 
to give the remainder in.payments 
l promise to give the same amount next year. 
7 wish to know the riame and address of the child or children. 
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died, and 927 ducks, or 77 per cent, re¬ 
covered. 
In connection with his investigations of 
the duck sickness Dr. Wetmore placed 
aluminum bands on the legs of about a 
thousand ducks that had been cured and 
set free at the mouth of Bear River. These 
bands are light and are little affected by 
salt or alkaline water, and each one bears 
a number and a request to notify the De¬ 
partment- of Agriculture, at Washington, 
if the bird is killed. In the years that 
have elapsed since these birds were set 
free, 170 of the labels have been returned. 
Some of the birds were killed close to 
where they were freed, but under circum- 1 
stances that indicated that they had fully 
recovered. Others came from the Pacific 
Ocean, from the Mexican border, from 
Canada, and from a point in Missouri. 
Useful scientific information has been 
derived from what is known of the move¬ 
ments of these banded ducks and sports¬ 
men or others who may kill such handed 
birds are urged to send full reports of the 
facts to the Biological Survey, giving 
number of the band and date and place of 
capture. 
A WOLF’S EXPENSIVE 
MEAL 
T HE article on the sperm whale in the 
May Forest and Stream has called 
forth the following interesting com¬ 
munication from Captain A. Hasselborg, a 
correspondent in Juneau, Alaska. The in¬ 
formation asked for has been supplied by 
letter. With regard to discoveries of 
masses of alleged ambergris, it may be 
worth noting that our natural history 
editor has several times been consulted 
by more or less excited individuals bring¬ 
ing bits of soap, hardened grease, soft 
clinkers, or refuse from the Barren Island 
rendering plant, which they had picked up 
on the Long Island beach and had taken 
for the precious product of the spe'rm 
whale. Once, however, a piece of the 
genuine substance is said to have been 
found on the seacoast near New York. 
“Editor Forest and Stream :—I have 
just read your article on the sperm whale, 
and was interested in your statement that 
ambergris is worth about $500 per' pound. 
Would you kindly let me know who is a 
buyer of it? Some years ago I was doing 
some natural history prospecting at the 
head of Glacier Bay. At the last beach 
where there is any life or vegetation a 
wolf was on shore. An Indian who also 
happened to be there seal hunting got 
ahead of me, and found a 30 lb. 7 ump # of 
ambergris; the wolf had eaten a pound or 
two. I brought a sample in to a druggist 
who knows the stuff. He admitted it was 
ambergris, but said there was no longer 
any market for it. He may have got it 
cheap later on; I haven’t seen the Indian 
since. I have been following the salt 
water 25 years, and know of some funny 
finds of what was not ambergris, but am 
quite sure this was the real stuff. Sperm 
whales are quite common up this coast. I 
believe they mostly eat large fish, etc., up 
here. Our common whale is the hump¬ 
back. They seem to feed to a great ex¬ 
tent on herring.” 
