FISHERMEN 
Autumn is here and vacations are practically over. 
Before putting away that rod until next spring, 
look it over and see if it is in need of repairs. Now 
is the time to have it attended to. Repairing neatly 
done. Estimates freely given. 
CHARLES J. MOHR 
9148 120th St., Richmond Hill, L. I., N. Y. 
SHOOTING DOGS WANTED 
I have owned and developed the greatest Field Trial 
Dogs that this world has ever seen and I am satisfied to 
rest on my laurels and in the future devote my energies 
exclusively to training shooting dogs. My training preserves 
comprise 20,000 acres with abundance of game. Kennels 
built after a lifetime experience. My assistants, the best 
men I could find in Scotland, and the dogs I break remain 
broken. I have more unbroken records than any trainer 
living or any trainer who ever did live. If you want your 
shooting dogs properly developed, send them to me. 
R. K. (BOB) ARMSTRONG, Roba, Alabama. 
If you are interested in Woods Cabins 
and have missed “My Struggle for Com¬ 
pactness,” turn back to page 682 and 
read it. You’ll find it helpful as well as 
interesting. 
STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, MAN¬ 
AGEMENT, CIRCULATION, ETC., RE¬ 
QUIRED BY THE ACT OF CON¬ 
GRESS OF AUGUST 24, 1912 
and exasperate. Insect repellants serve 
against them. Ant hills are always 
to be avoided. During a night the car¬ 
riers from such a hill may perform 
such a feat of conveyance from one’s 
stores and food supplies as to amaze 
humans not otherwise harmed. But 
some ants are savage, meat-hungry 
and dangerous. The tales of horror 
about men tied on ant hills in Indian 
days have minor echoes in the experi¬ 
ences of parties of tourists who care¬ 
lessly fell among these remorseless and 
hungry assailants. 
Fleas, and even less mentionable in¬ 
sects, are to be avoided by keeping away 
from some kinds of abandoned build¬ 
ings and enclosures. The tourist who 
avoids the questionable places, and 
that means such localities as women 
generally rebel against, is not apt to 
have trouble with “wild animals,” in 
the broadest sense of the term. Com¬ 
mon sense dictates the exercise of con¬ 
stant thoughtfulness and watchfulness, 
as regards camping and eating places. 
Those who are at all familiar with 
these jeopardies is worth worrying 
about, except to the extent of not being 
reckless and not neglecting ordinary 
precautions. 
A first-aid kit, a few simple reme¬ 
dies, and the moment there is justifica¬ 
tion for suspicion of sickness, consulta¬ 
tion with a doctor—with these things 
in mind, tourists can look ahead to 
going anywhere on automobile high¬ 
ways without being afraid. 
As to protection from bandits, hold¬ 
ups and such, I might remark that so 
many tourist parties have so little 
worth taking that they are about the 
poorest prospects for thieves there are. 
Still, a car might well be watched al¬ 
ways, and the load guarded against 
sneak thieves and the casual depreda¬ 
tions of children. 
FOREST AND STREAM 
LETTERS 
(Continued from page 715) 
of Forest and Stream, published monthly at New 
York, N. Y., for October 1st, 1923. 
State of New York ) 
County of New York J ss< 
Before me, a Notary Public, in and for the 
State and county aforesaid, personally appeared 
T. H. Mearns, who, having been duly sworn ac¬ 
cording to law, deposes and says that he is the 
Business Manager of the FOREST AND 
STREAM and that the following is, to the best of 
his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the 
ownership, management (and if a daily paper, the 
circulation), etc., of the aforesaid publication for 
the date shown in the above caption, required by 
the Act of August 24, 1912, embodied in section 
443, Postal Laws and Regulations, printed on the 
reverse of this form, to wit: 
1. That the names and addresses of the pub¬ 
lisher, editor, managing editor, and business 
managers are: 
Publisher, Forest and Stream Publishing Co., 
221 W. 57th St., N. Y. City. 
Editor, William A. Bruette, 221 W. 57th St., 
N. Y. City. 
Managing Editor, William A. Bruette, 221 W. 
57th St., N. Y. City. 
Business Manager, T. H. Mearns, 221 W. 57th 
St., N. Y. City. 
2. That the owners are: (Give names and ad¬ 
dresses of individual owners, or, if a corporation, 
give its name and the names and addresses of 
stockholders owning or holding 1 per cent or more 
of the total amount of stock.) Forest and Stream 
Publishing Co., 221 W. 57th St., New York, 
N. Y. ; William A. Bruette, 221 W. 57th St., New 
York, N. Y.; George Bird Grinnell, 238 E. 15th 
St., New York, N. Y.; E. L. Parker, Pitts¬ 
burgh, Pa. 
3. That the known bondholders, mortgagees 
and other security holders owning or holding 1 
per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mort¬ 
gages, or other securities are: (If there are none, 
so state.) None. 
4. That the two paragraphs next above, giving 
the names of the owners, stockholders and secur¬ 
ity holders, if any, contain not only the list of 
stockholders and security holders as they appear 
upon the books of the company, but also, in cases 
where the stockholder or security holder appears 
upon the books of the company as trustee or in 
any other fiduciary relation, the name of the per¬ 
son or corporation for whom such trustee is act¬ 
ing, is given; also that the said two paragraphs 
contain statements embracing affiant’s full knowl¬ 
edge and belief as to the circumstances and con¬ 
ditions under which stockholders and security 
holders who do not appear upon the books of the 
company as trustees, hold stock and securities in 
a capacity other than that of a bona fide owner; 
and this affiant has no reason to believe that any 
other person, association, or corporation has any 
interest direct or indirect in the said stock, bonds, 
or other securities than as so stated by him. 
T. H. MEARNS, Business Manager. 
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 18th 
day of September, 1923. 
[Seal] WALTER L. BISHOP. 
» (My commission expires March 30, 1925.) 
camping in one region have something 
to learn in other regions, but discussion 
of the places in view will generally 
disclose to all what is present. Some 
camp grounds are in such poor condi¬ 
tion that it is better to take a chance 
at the roadside somewhere beyond than 
amid the refuse of the unclean who 
have gone before. 
Sickness is more to be feared than 
anything else. Colds are the common¬ 
est menace. Dust, “bad air” and chills 
from winds are the commonest of nos¬ 
tril, throat and lung troubles on the 
road. Letting a cold in the head go 
may serve, if one is heading for high 
altitudes or deserts, but coming down 
into low and wet country, it may lead 
to disaster. There are a number of 
simple remedies worth having, as men¬ 
tholated vaseline, formamints, cathar¬ 
tics, digestive aids, rhinitis and sundry 
home remedies of fame due to effective¬ 
ness. But in case of fever and head¬ 
ache, one may well head for a good 
drugstore in the first large city; and 
learning the name of the best doctor 
in town, go to him. 
We spent a week in Omaha with a 
boy whose throat had somehow become 
affected. We drove eighty miles to get 
him there, over a muddy Iowa high¬ 
way and in recurring showers of rain. 
Many a tourist hates to acknowledge 
the advisibility of making a stop be¬ 
cause somebody is “a little sick,” but 
the problem may be serious. A phy¬ 
sician can generally tell in a day or 
two about this. If it isn’t serious, well 
and good; if it is, then the sooner all 
know the better off every one is, in¬ 
cluding the patient. 
That is to say, the “wild-beast” dan¬ 
ger is practically wholly that of insect 
attacks and of disease. And neither of 
cigar no other gun in that party would 
have stopped that fox as did mine. 
Maybe I’m a little chesty about this 
old gun I have shot for eighteen years, 
but old man Sturgis said: “If Gus can’t 
get ’em with that old Ithaca there is 
no use of our trying.” 
Now, wasn’t that a real fox hunt? 
Three foxes in one day! 
Augustus Williamson, 
Altamont, New York. 
LIKES LETTERS 
Dear Forest and Stream: 
HAVE been a constant reader of 
your valuable paper for many years. 
I like your policy of running articles 
containing useful information, written 
in an entertaining manner. We learn 
through the experiences of others, and 
no sportsman is so seasoned that he 
knows all he needs to. 
I look forward eagerly to reading the 
Forest and Stream letters section each 
month. It contains real stuff, and the 
advice given by many old-timers is of 
incalculable value. Many of these men 
are glad to write in a friendly letter 
what they could not put into a regular 
article because they lack “style and 
finish.” 
In the October number I found an 
article, entitled “The Art of Wing 
Shooting,” to be one of the most help¬ 
ful things I have ever read. By ap¬ 
plying one of the principles brought 
out in regard to undershooting, I have 
been able to correct a fault of ten 
years’ standing. 
Keep up the good work and let’s have 
plenty of letters. 
James Sands. 
kibuc 
In writing to Advertisers mention Forest and Stream. 
It will identify you. 
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