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in Shooting ? 
T HEN pay the same price 
you have been paying for 
shells—and insist on getting 
shells that are wadded with 
“Cork-Tex” the new scien¬ 
tific wadding, used in place 
of felt. 
“Cork-Tex” wads are soft 
and resilient. They minimize 
the recoil—and lessen the 
nerve strain in shooting. 
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513 Monroe St. Wilmington, Delaware 
Note: We make the “Cork- 
Tex” wads for shell manu¬ 
facturers. We do not manu¬ 
facture shells — but factory 
loaded shells are available. 
If your dealer is not in posi¬ 
tion to supply you, send us 
his name and we will advise 
him how he may be sup¬ 
plied with “Cork-Tex” 
wadded shells. 
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HEndoryd by SCIENCE 
most unpretentious. There are winter 
homes of millionaires, of near million¬ 
aires and of would-be millionaires. 
There are modest bungalows and demo¬ 
cratic shanty house-boats. 
When ice, sleet or snow cover the- 
northern states; when the winds blow 
cold and cruel; when heavy and thick 
clothing must be worn to insure body 
warmth, it is exceedingly pleasant to 
sojourn where light clothing suffices and 
where the water is of such temperature 
that sea-bathing may be indulged in 
each day. Golf may be played regu¬ 
larly, for each village appears to have 
a golf course. 
A profusion of fine vegetables are 
produced during the winter months and 
citrus fruits of extra de luxe quality 
may be gathered ripe from the trees. 
The sport of catching fish for sport’s 
sake may be enjoyed in the salt water 
along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts; in 
thousands of fresh-water lakes and in 
great rivers, some of which, like the In¬ 
dian and Halifax rivers, are really but 
elongated salt-water lakes. 
The whole state is a lure to the Nim¬ 
rod as well as to the disciple of Isaak 
Walton, and the great Everglades 
jungle constitutes one of the few re¬ 
maining natural habitats for deer, wild 
turkeys, quail and other game. 
A large proportion of the wealth of 
the whole state lies in the potentials of 
this wild region; it forms a wonderful 
breeding place for all sorts of furred 
and feathered game; every deer in it is 
worth one hundred dollars to the people 
of the state of Florida and every wild 
turkey killed by a tourist represents the 
expenditure by the hunter of fifty dol¬ 
lars at least within the state. 
The game and fish laws of Florida 
are a joke. Natural resources, wonder¬ 
fully great, appear destined to be wiped 
out within a few years simply because 
the legislators of the state seem deter¬ 
mined to encourage the killing of the 
goose that lays the golden egg. The 
greed of selfish interest will first, prob¬ 
ably, be permitted to exhaust the supply 
of food fish and then the wilder regions 
will be made barren of game animals 
and birds, even of alligators. Seining 
for fish is permitted in fresh-water 
lakes, deer are killed without regard to 
size, age or sex, and five wild turkeys a 
season may be killed by each holder of 
a shooting license. 
For general tourist purposes Florida 
may be divided into the East Coast Sec¬ 
tion, Interior Lake Region and the West 
(Gulf) Coast. The East Coast offers a 
chain of great resorts from Jacksonville 
down to Key West. The lakes and the 
rivers of the interior offer outdoor 
sports and upland beauties that insis¬ 
tently coax all who hunger after ease, 
comfort and recreation to flee from the 
frosts, storms and blizzards of north¬ 
ern latitudes. On the West Coast are 
many thriving communities, each of 
which possesses an individual attractive¬ 
ness; Tampa, St. Petersburg, Pensacola, 
Cedar Key, Fort Myers, Panama City, 
Naples and Usippa Island amongst 
others. This is a new country to the 
northerner down in this region for the 
first time and its wonderfully alluring 
appeal becomes well-nigh irresistible 
after the tourist has journeyed to the 
latitude of Rockledge, which place is 
about one hundred and seventy-five 
miles, in an almost direct line, south of 
Jacksonville. 
The auto-camping tourists, “The 
Nomads of the North,” begin to trek 
towards Florida in October; from then 
on, for months, auto-tourists cross the 
state line daily at various places. As 
darkness comes on the occupants of 
these cars camp for the night, some¬ 
times by the highway, sometimes in 
camping places set apart for such use 
and sometimes in place's that are wild, 
junglelike, and primitive. Florida 
makes all the motor tourists welcome, 
for every community has a glad hand 
for the auto tourist and for his pocket- 
book. Each city, town or hamlet has 
these tourists; some localities have gone 
a long way seeking to make camping 
comfortable for these “Motor Car 
Arabs” and have erected assembly halls 
at camping places, established com¬ 
munity post offices and provide fuel, 
water, electric lights and comfort sta¬ 
tions free of charge. Committees of 
citizens often meet the incoming camp¬ 
ers and make them feel so thoroughly 
at home that many “tin can tourists” 
stay for several weeks at places that 
appeal to them, or even for the entire 
period of rigorous winter weather in 
the north. 
The camping motor tourists journey 
in cars of all sorts and that range in 
kind from luxurious traveling coaches 
to the most rusty sort of a “Tin Lizzie”; 
even auto trucks are sometimes utilized 
by camping parties. These motor 
campers constitute a grave danger to 
the game animals and fish of the regions 
traveled through, for nearly every 
camper carries along fishing tackle and 
a firearm of some sort; disregards the 
game laws utterly; catches fish and 
shoots game as opportunity offers and 
very seldom indeed has a proper license. 
Now that the state of Florida exacts 
from non-resident hunters a fee o-f $25 
for each county hunted in, the number 
of auto tourists who take out proper 
licenses is very small indeed, yet it is 
the camping motor tourist who shoots 
game birds while they are dusting in the 
sunny places along the highway, who 
pollute streams and who often start 
destructive fires in the forests because 
of lack of proper care with camp fires 
or with smoking. 
For all-around comfort and ease dur¬ 
ing the period when the North may be 
covered with snow or sleet or experi¬ 
encing zero weather, no county in 
Florida exceeds Lee County. Lee is 
the largest of the fifty-two counties in 
the state and the average winter tem¬ 
perature is 64 degrees. It is on the edge 
and really forms a part of the great 
Florida wilderness, and offers to the 
anglers and hunters sport of a character 
not surpassed in any section of this 
country. The salt waters contain 
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