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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Nov. 26, 19x0. 
Two Clean Kills 
You know Drant—shy wanderers of the lonely 
coasts—no wild fowl so bashful about coming to 
decoys, none so hard to lure within range. 
Fifty yards is close range for brant. And to 
kill at that distance your gun must shoot harder 
than the average. 
Lefever guns shoot a whole lot harder than 
the average. That is why the man who swings 
his Lefever on a rearing pair of brants does not 
question the result. He knows it—two clean kills. 
The reason Lefever guns kill clean and sure and 
far is Lefever Taper Boring. 
But that is only one of 19 exclusive advantages 
Lefever Shot Guns 
have over other makes. 
The New Lefever Gun Book tells all the 
things you surely should know before you buy a gun. 
LEFEVER ARMS CO., Z7 Maltbie Street, 
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American Big Game in its Haunts, 
The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club. Editor, 
George Bird Grinnell. Vignette. New York. 497 
pages. Illustrated. Cloth, $2.50. 
Contents: Sketch of President Roosevelt; Wilderness 
Reserve, Theodore Roosevelt; The Zoology of North 
American Big Game, Arthur Erwin Brown; Big Game 
Shooting in Alaska—I. Bear Hunting on Kadiak Island; 
II. Bear Hunting on the Alaska Peninsula; III. My Big 
Bear of Shuyack; IV. The White Sheep of Kenai Pen¬ 
insula; V. Hunting the Giant Moose, James H. Kidder; 
The Kadiak Bear and His Home, W. Lord Smith; The 
Mountain Sheep and Its Range, George Bird Grinnell; 
Preservation of the Wild Animals of North America, 
Henry Fairfield Osborn; Distribution of the Moose, 
Madison Grant; The Creating of Game Refuges, Alden 
Sampson; Temiskaming Moose, Paul J. Dashiel; Two 
Trophies from India, John H. Prentice; Big Game 
Refuges, Forest Reserves of North America, Forest Re¬ 
serves as Game Preserves, E. W. Nelson, etc., etc. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
Where, When and How to Catch 
Fish on the East Coast of Florida 
By Wm. H. Gregg, of St. Louis, Mo., assisted by Capt. 
John Gardner, of Ponce Park, Mosquito Inlet, Fla. 
With 100 engravings and 12 colored illustrations. 
Cloth. Illustrated. 238 pages. Map. Price, $4.00. 
A visitor to Florida can hardly make the trip without 
t his book, if he is at all interested in angling. It gives a 
vcr T. complete list of the fishes of the East Coast of 
Florida, and every specie* is illustrated by a cut taken 
from the best authorities. The cuts are thus of the most 
value to the angler who desires to identify the fish he 
takes, while the colored plates of the tropical fish shown 
in all their wonderful gorgeousness of coloring, are very 
beautiful. Besides the pictures of fish, there are cuts 
showing portions of the fishing tackle, which the author 
«se*. A good index completes the volume. 
Dependable in the long 
and the difficult shots 
The complete burning of the 
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The experienced sportsmen, 
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Dead Shot. The well known 
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Nursing vs. Dosing. 
A Treatise on the Care of Dogs in Health and Disease. 
By S. T. Hammond (“Shadow”), Author of “Training 
vs. Breaking.” 161 pages. Cloth. Price, $1.00. 
Mr. Hammond believes that more dogs are killed by 
injudicious doctoring than by disease, and the present 
work is a protest against the too free use of medicine 
when dogs are sick. The author has given especial atten¬ 
tion to many of the troubles which especially afflict small 
dogs kept in the house, and likely to suffer from lack of 
exercise and from over-feeding; and boys and girls 
owning dogs—as well as children of larger growth—,may 
profitably study and ponder this volume. 
Contents: Importance of Nursing. Cleanliness. Out- 
of-Sorts Dam. Puppies. Diet. Other Foods. Kennel and 
Exercise. Common Ailments. Teething. Diarrhea. Con¬ 
vulsions. Epilepsy. Distempter. Eczema. Need of 
Proper Care. Sour Stomach. Vermin. Canker of the 
Ear. Mange. The Nervous System. Abscesses. Colic. 
Worms. 
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DESTRUCTION AND PROTECTION. 
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nivorous mammals, many of the hawks and 
owls, and not a few domestic animals. In the 
old times, when birds were less pursued by man 
and had a range far wider than at present, their 
annual increase in numbers more than made up 
the loss from the attacks of natural enemies, 
but over much of the territory of the United 
States that time has long passed. 
In thickly settled countries, the domestic dog, 
self-hunting through the spring and summer, 
destroys great numbers of the nests and eggs 
of song and game birds, while the house cat, 
the' pet of the kitchen or the house cat run 
wild, is very destructive. The harm done by 
the farmer’s dog in his travels through the 
fields is not generally understood. Two or 
three dogs from neighboring farms may start 
out in company and be gone all day—perhaps 
for several days—hunting. Among the prey 
that they capture may, perhaps, be a wood¬ 
chuck, the remains of which the farmer finds 
later and speaks of with pride as having been 
killed by his dogs. He does not know that 
while hunting the dogs may have destroyed 
dozens of the nests of game birds, and song¬ 
birds, Which are the farmer’s best friends, since 
they are ever-working unpaid police officers, 
destroying all through the summer days the in¬ 
sect enemies which prey upon his crops. If 
the work of these insect-eating birds were to 
be stopped for a week, or for a month, the dam¬ 
age done to the crops of the United States 
would be incalculably great. 
In certain sections of.the South an extremely 
destructive enemy of ground-nesting birds of 
all sorts is the wild hog, which roams the 
forest, literally seeking what he may devour. 
The number of nests and eggs of turkeys, ruffed 
grouse and quail that these animals search out 
and destroy is very great. Some States have 
laws providing that hogs shall not be allowed 
to run at large, but such States are exceptions. 
On the other hand, it must be said that in 
States so thinly settled that hogs and cattle 
are permitted to run wild, there are compara¬ 
tively few dogs and cats that roam the fields 
and woods. 
Herbert Brown reported a few years ago 
that previous to the introduction of ranch 
cattle the masked quail was quite common in 
southern Arizona, but that the cattle eating off 
and trampling down the tall grass had so de¬ 
stroyed the breeding and hiding places of this 
bird that it had practically disappeared from the 
United States side of the line, and at latest re¬ 
ports this was still the condition. Under such ad¬ 
verse conditions, it is not strange that our stock of 
splendid game birds grows smaller year by year. 
The problem as to what shall be done to keep 
this stock from wholly disappearing gives cause 
for much anxiety. 
For American sportsmen, American game 
birds are the best, and there is no reason why 
we should not have an abundance of these, pro¬ 
vided only for a short time we practice a little 
self-control. The wild turkey was formerly 
found over the whole United States, east of 
the Missouri River, south of the Nebraska and 
east of the Rocky Mountains. Grouse of one 
sort and another formerly abounded over al¬ 
most the whole United States and Canada, 
while in the southern portions of the United 
