the ducks come down to water when it is in a FUNK CANVAS 
TANK. 
Set up in cornfields or marshes—these tanks are wonderfully inviting 
to all kinds of water-fowl. 
• • • • • • • •• • • 
Chemically treated and absolutely waterproof. Built to any desired 
diameter. 
Easily handled—set up by one man. 
“Flink Users Are Flink Boosters” 
Ask any man who has ever used a FLINK TANK and his answer is: 
“The best ever”—because they are the best idea ever invented for 
the furtherance of Dry Land Duck Shooting. 
FLINK SMITH & CO., Inc., La Salle, Ill. 
LINEN FISHING LINES 
12 THREAD SPECIAL CASTING 
Also 15, 18 and 21 Thread Samples and prices on request 
C. MOORE & COMPANY 
Twines, Threads and Yarns - - 500 Market Street, Phila., Pa. 
THE SHOOTING TIMES 
AND 
BRITISH SPORTSMAN 
The Sportsman's Ideal Paper 
deals with 
SHOOTING, FISHING, SPORTING DOGS, Elc. 
SUBSCRIPTION: 21/8 PER ANNUM 
International money orders obtainable at all 
Post Offices 
Specimen Copy forwarded Post Free on 
application. 
74-77 Temple Chambers, London, E. C. 4 
BECOME A 
LANDSCAPE 
Architect 
'-•^Dignified. Exclusive Profession 
Jinot overrun with competitors. 
Crowded with opportunity for 
money-making and big feea. 
> .- /J $5000 to $10,000 incomes attained 
V by experts. Easy to master under our 
^correspondence methods. Diploma award- 
'ed. We assist students and graduates In 
, started and developing their businesses. Estab- 
1916. Write for information; it will open your 
eyes. Do it today. 
American Landscape School. 71.E Newark, New York 
Raise Silver Foxes 
Easy to raise. Larger profits 
than any other live stock rais¬ 
ing. Stands strictest investiga¬ 
tion. Recommended by Gov¬ 
ernment. 4 different plans. 
One will suit you. Complete 
description free. Send today. 
M. 
g. T. DRYZ, Box 1033, EAGLE RIVER, WIS. 
^ South Bend Bait 
2ooo.oo 
FISH-PHOTO Contest 
Anyone may enter. To compete, 
catch one or several fish — photo¬ 
graph them, send photo to us. 
There’s no entrance fee. Contest 
now on— closes October 31st. 273 
prizes in all, totaling $2,000.00. 
Get further particulars from, any 
South Bend Bait dealer by asking 
for our Contest Book. Tells about 
prizes, rules, etc. If there is not a 
dealer near you, write us. 
South Bend Bait Company 46 
10237 High St.,South Bend,Ind. 
WHY NOT 
spend Spring, Summer 
and Fall gathering but¬ 
terflies, insects? 1 buy hundreds of 
kinds for collections. Some worth $1 to 
$7 each. Simple outdoor work with my 
instructions, pictures, price-list. Send 
10c (not stamps) for my Illustrated 
prospectus before sending butterflies. 
Mr. Sinclair, Dealer in Insects, Dept. 9, Ocean Park, Calif. 
The “BAKER” was the first Single-Barrel Trap Gun 
made in America, and has stood the test of time. We 
have a few of these on hand on which we are making 
special prices. 
Write for particulars. 
BAKER GUN CO., 253 Church St„ New York City. 
NATIONAL FOREST LAWS 
Dear Forest and Stream: 
t T has come to my notice during my 
* 35 years’ residence in the West that 
cattle may be and are run on the same 
range year after year, but if sheep 
are pastured over range lands one 
year they leave the land a permanent 
desert where little vegetable life sur¬ 
vives and as a result animal life there¬ 
after is unable to live. There is no 
cure for people who own lands leasing 
them to flockmasters and if the govern¬ 
ments—State and National—don’t ob¬ 
ject there is no way to prevent sheep 
from pasturing on any open lands till 
such time as it is left barren to a de¬ 
gree that it no longer pays sheepmen 
to exploit it. 
The object of the National forest 
laws were to prevent the total destruc¬ 
tion of the forest and make them a 
permanent asset to the whole American 
people. The lumber alone does not 
constitute the whole value of the for¬ 
ests to the people, though no doubt it 
is the major consideration, but if the 
forests are to yield their maximum 
value to their owners (the public) then 
their values as pleasure grounds for 
summer campers, fishers and hunters 
of game fish, fowls and beasts should 
be taken into consideration and con¬ 
served along with the other values 
that may be more readily apparent. 
I have seen antelope, deer and elk 
grazing with cattle and horses, but 
never saw any kind of a game bird or 
beast near a band of sheep, as their 
myriad hoofs make other life near 
them impossible as it destroys nesting 
birds with their eggs and young and 
larger game must emigrate to find 
food. 
J. R. Patterson, 
Newport, Washington. 
DECKED SAILING CANOE 
ASSOCIATION 
Dear Forest and Stream: 
CARLY in April a fire which de- 
stroyed the boat building plant of 
the Gilbert Boat Works, Canada, de¬ 
stroyed “Mermaid,” owned by Leo 
Friede, International racing champion. 
Friede had loaned his boat to the Can¬ 
adian company to give the firm an op¬ 
portunity to copy its lines as they were 
to build 12 duplicates. These duplicates 
were all completed and ready for ship¬ 
ment when the plant was destroyed and 
they were also destroyed. 
The loss of the Canadian boats 
brings out the fact that in January 
there was a fire in the George I. Gil¬ 
bert Boat Works at Clason Point, 
which caused much damage. Ed. 
Ahrens of the New York Canoe Club 
and Wm. Lux of the Sheepshead Bay 
Yacht Club had their boats in the 
In writing to Advertisers mention Forest and Stream. It will identify you. 
Page 390 
