Oct. 8, 1910.] 
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816 Chestnut St., Philadelphia 
THE SQUIRREL'S HABITS IN BRITAIN. 
We will first consider the squirrel with rela¬ 
tion to the growth of a covert, which has a di¬ 
rect bearing on the welfare of game, its pre¬ 
servation, and the sport to be enjoyed. During 
ages long ago the squirrel undoubtedly played 
an important part in the workings of nature, 
for it was in a large degree responsible for the 
spread of the woodland. The squirrel, says the 
Shooting Times, is well known to be one ot 
those wise creatures which stores up summer 
supplies against winter scarcity, putting by a 
horde of nuts, acorns, beechmast, crab-apples, 
etc., to feed upon in winter. Should the cold be 
severe, a large portion of the winter season will 
be spent hibernating, and in that case very 
little of the stores is consumed, but if the 
weather is open and mild the squirrels are up 
and about, and they eat far more. Readers will 
thus understand that it is only occasionally a 
squirrel consumes all its stores. 
The general idea is that a squirrel makes one 
big hoard, but such is not the case; to quote a 
well-worn saying, it displays further wisdom by 
not “putting all its eggs in one basket.” It is 
also believed that its hoard is always in a hol¬ 
low tree; but there again opinion is* wrong. 
The squirrel stores a certain quantity for im¬ 
mediate wants in its nest, some in hollow places 
in trees, but the major portion is placed in holes 
scratched just beneath the surface of the 
ground, and not more than a handful at each 
spot. Strange to say, the squirrel prefers to 
place these ground stores in the open fields out¬ 
side a wood, at a distance of within twenty-five 
yards or thereabouts, and this we attribute to 
a desire to locate them out of the way of rats, 
voles, mice, etc., which flock to a covert in 
winter, and would otherwise steal the squirrel’s 
stores. 
As the squirrel does not consume all its 
stores, those left in the ground till spring grow, 
and thus spread of forest over open land is ac¬ 
counted for, or was accounted for in ages past. 
The squirrel's, habit of making these numerous 
small stores is beneficial to game, for, when 
food has been scarce in winter, we have seen 
pheasants rob them one after another. How 
the birds find the hidden acorns and nuts is 
somewhat of a puzzle, but we should say their 
sense of smell is sufficient to locate the stores. 
I hat the pheasants do profit by the squirrel's 
sagacity we have had frequent proof, and the 
food thus obtained comes at a very critical 
time, .when birds not fed artificially have to 
exercise all their wits to secure enough. 
The squirrel is useful to game in another 
way, as he is a very wasteful feeder for all his 
wisdom in storing away supplies. Watch him 
on an oak tree or nut-bush, when the nuts and 
acorns are beginning to ripen, although they 
are a long way yet from falling. He drops a 
dozen for each one he decides to nibble, and 
behaves exactly the same when sampling the 
fruit and berries on a hedge. But this is not 
altogether waste, for the game birds are very 
glad indeed of the food the squirrel drops on 
the ground, as it would not be available to 
them (or they would not have sufficient sense 
to avail themselves of it) till frost brought it 
to the ground. 
As a sentinel the squirrel is also useful to 
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HITTING vs. MISSING. 
By S. T. Hammond (“Shadow”). Cloth. Price, $1.00. 
Mr. Hammond enjoys among his field companions the 
repute of being an unusually good shot, and one who is 
particularly successful in that most difficult branch of 
upland shooting, the pursuit of the ruffed grouse, or 
partridge. This prompted the suggestion that he should 
write down for others an exposition of the methods by 
which his skill was acquired. The result is this original 
manual of “Hitting vs. Missing.” We term it originat, 
because, as the chapters will show, the author was self- 
taught; the expedients and devices adopted and the 
forms of practice followed were his own. This then may 
be termed the Hammond system of shooting; and as it 
was successful in his own experience, being here set 
forth simply and intelligently, it will prove not less 
effective with other*. 
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