Nov. 12, 1910.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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The “Old Reliable” PARKER GUN 
At the Post Series Tournament 
Indianapolis, Ind. October 17-21, 1910 
THE SPECIAL MATCH 
For the ten High Professionals during 1910 
Was won by L. S. German, shooting the Parker Gun. Score 234 ex 250 ; 18 yards rise; 60 yard targets 
HIGH GENERAL AVERAGE 
All Programme Events, Including 100 Pairs 
The second place was won by L. S. German, shooting his Parker Gun. Score 960 ex 1000 shot at; 96 $. 
HIGH GENERAL AVERAGE ON DOUBLES 
Second, Fred Gilbert, 178 ex 200 ; 89 $. Third, L. S. German, 177 ex 200 ; . 885 $. 
The honors above mentioned were all won by gentlemen shooting the PARKER GUN, 
which again conclusively proves that the PARKER GUN is the “OLD RELIABLE.” 
SHOOT THE PARKER GUN AND WIN! 
PARKER, BROS. 
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have not been shot. We are told that they have 
bred well and that their numbers have greatly 
increased. This may well enough continue so 
long as man continues to care for them, and 
they have only natural enemies to contend with, 
but it may readily enough be seen that so soon 
as the gunners of any district turn out and 
shoot the birds, in all likelihood they will very 
soon be decimated and their increase will cease. 
It may be very well that gunners should be 
taught by experience with these birds how little 
chance of survival any wild species has when 
man. is continually pursuing it. 
It is evident that unless refuges are set apart 
for these birds where they shall never be mo¬ 
lested by man, all the money and effort that has 
been expended to restock our covers will be 
wasted. If on the other hand in each town a 
certain territory shall be set aside where the 
birds shall be absolutely protected and cared for 
by keepers, the overflow from such a territory 
will always give a certain amount of shooting 
in adjacent lands. At best, however, in thickly 
settled districts, as for example portions of New 
England and the Middle States, there never can 
be good shooting except on land that is strictly 
preserved for the use of a limited number of 
guns. In the Middle West, however, where the 
holdings of land are much larger, the shooting 
will always be much better, but even here, as 
time goes on. we may feel very sure that free 
shooting will be to a large extent abolished, and 
the average man will be obliged to content him¬ 
self with the game that he can find on his own 
land, while dwellers in the cities must either club 
together to hire shootings or else must go with¬ 
out. In other words, as time goes on. condi¬ 
tions so far as game and game preserving is 
concerned will tend constantly to approach 
nearer to those existing to-day in Great Britain. 
There, where they have perhaps the best field 
shooting in the world, the rearing of game has 
become wholly commercial. If you are invited 
to have a day or a week of shooting at some 
friend’s place, all the birds which he and his 
guests kill are gathered up, sent to market and 
sold. You may not even take away with you 
when you leave a single pair of partridges or 
pheasants, unless your host in an excels of 
generosity offers them to you as a great favors 
This seems strange to those accustomed to 
American ways, but it is the British practice 
and no doubt in its way quite as good a method 
as ours. Moreover, it is wholly reasonable and 
can be justified by the conditions. The British 
landowmer spends in protecting, feeding and* 
rearing his birds large sums of money, and it 
is but reasonable that he should endeavor to get 
this money back again. An American gunner 
who went duck shooting and on his return sold 
his canvasbacks or redheads or ruddies to mar¬ 
ket men would be likely to lose caste among 
his fellows if this became known, but the British 
land holder sells his birds—those killed by him¬ 
self and by his guests—in precisely the same 
spirit that he sdlls his fat cattle, his sheep, his 
hogs or his poultry. This is true of kings, 
dukes, earls and commoners. 
Within the past two or three years arguments 
have been advanced to show that the game laws 
in the United States should be modified so as 
to permit anyone who rears game on his place 
to sell it at any season of the year. When the 
time comes that a number of people successfully 
breed game for the market, it may be well 
enough to modify these laws to affect the con¬ 
ditions then existing. At present there are per¬ 
haps half a dozen men in the country who rear 
deer of one kind or another, and who would be 
glad to market their surplus, but the number of 
people who do this is now so very, very small 
that law's changed as has been suggested would 
inure only to the benefit of the pot-hunter. The 
present laws harm no one, since in most States 
it is perfectly practical for anyone who rears 
deer in large numbers to obtain from the proper 
officials authority to market the flesh of the 
animals he may wish to slaughter. 
The American who wishes to rear pheasants 
or partridges must encounter all the difficulties 
met with by the British game keeper—and some 
others. 
Especially he must be on his guard against 
the attacks of vermin, and these vermin, while 
to some extent wild birds and mammals, will 
in most places be chiefly the domestic rat and 
the domestic cat. These are continually prowl¬ 
ing about any place where there are young birds, 
and only tight fences and a multitude of trap' 
and snares will keep them from causing enor 
mous loss. It is recorded that in one summer 
Dr. Clifton F. Hodge, who lives in the large 
city of Worcester, and who for a number of 
years was engaged in rearing ruffed grouse and 
quail from the egg, caught in his traps no less 
than seventeen skunks, and a large number of 
rats. It may also be remembered that in previ¬ 
ous years domestic cats caused Dr. Hodge a 
heavy loss, and that when he killed some of 
these cats, some unspeakable person gave poison 
to the birds that Dr. Hodge was rearing. 
One who contemplates efforts in the direction 
of rearing any wild birds in confinement should 
devote much thought to the matter before he 
gets his birds. He should first of all see that 
his inclosure is so arranged that nothing can 
without his consent get in from the outside or 
out from the inside. Then will come the often 
perplexing question of food, and this ought to 
be arranged for in advance, since after the young 
birds are hatched it will be too late to begin to 
consider what to feed them. Those birds that 
oass safely through the first few weeks of their 
lives may be regarded as fairly safe. At all 
Two Clean Kills 
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Fifty yards is close range for brant. And to 
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