
By WALTER WOODHEAD, of Rutland, Ill, 
— who says, “Nine muskies and eleven bass in five 
Sie hours. Yourbait gave mea mostsuccessful vacation. 
The answer is Heddon Baits which fish can't 
resist. Proved by Heddon’s record in the national 
“Field & Stream” fishing contest in which for 
thirteen years Heddon Baits have consistently 
taken more prize bass than all other wooden 
baits combined. 
In the 1923 contest, out of the twenty-four bass 
landed on wooden baits thirteen were taken 
with Heddon baits, the other eleven comprising 
baits of all other makes. 
From a total of twenty Split Bamboo Rods used 
in taking these prize fish, fifteen were Heddon’s. 
We are justly proud of this record indicating the 
effectiveness of Heddon Lures and Rods and the 
preference of the most successful fishermen in the 
country. This is convincing and unprejudiced 
evidence of the real fishing value of Heddon 
Tackle—a tribute to originality and genius of 
conception in design plis uncompromising in- 
tegrity and skill in production. 
Catalog free on request showing game fish in 
actual colors and the full line of Heddon Rods, 
Reels, Lines and Baits. 
JAMES HEDDON’S SONS, Dowagiac, Mich. 
906 West Street 
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The Game Fisher 
Several prize winners were 
taken on the Game Fisher. 
Its natural swimming action 
gets results. Several color 
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A vertical barrel gun of unique design, 
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Has stood the test of 
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In writing to Advertisers mention Forest and Streanv. 
It will identify you. 
ever seen before and after I observed 
them at a distance through the glasses 
I was convinced that a number of birds 
were nesting in the swale. On going 
over it carefully I found eight nests 
with from three to five eggs in each. 
Several days later I went to the swale 
and arrived just in time to hear a 
great commotion. Upon investigation I 
found the crows had attacked the nests 
|of the birds and had destroyed most 
of the eggs. I had approached the 
swale through a woods and was close 
enough to see exactly what happened 
and to see a crow carry away an egg. 
He had driven his bill through one side 
but not entirely through the egg and 
was carrying it off seemingly without 
any difficulty. The question comes up 
how is it possible for a crow to drive 
his bill partially through the egg with- 
out breaking the shell on the other side 
and destroying the contents and when 
he gets the egg to his nest how does he 
feed it to the young without wasting 
half of it? It would be very interesting 
if some of the readers of Forest & 
STREAM could answer these questions. 
I believe that if the number of crows 
is not diminished materially they and 
the house cats will eventually destroy 
what song and insectivorous birds we 
have left. 
By-the-bye—you will be pleased to 
know that although the weather con- 
ditions were as bad as possible we have 
succeeded in keeping eight little ruffed 
grouse alive to date. 
Dr. H. M. BEck, 
Wilkes Barre, Pa. 
Will Woodchucks Climb? 
DEAR FOREST & STREAM: 
S I have been a subscriber to our 
wonderful magazine nearly a year 
and have not contributed anything yet, 
I thought I would tell this tale. In last 
month’s issue a story appeared under 
the title, “An Audacious Hawk,” in 
which the author seemed to think it 
very unusual that a ’chuck should climb 
a tree. He said that he used to smile 
when told of it, but never really be- 
lieved it. Well, previous to that article 
it never occured to me that the fact 
would ever be questioned that they do 
climb trees, except by some town per- 
son or tenderfoot. Personally, I have 
killed many of them in trees. 
I remember in 1915 I had a good 
’chuck dog, and while working in the 
fields (we live on a large farm) he 
would go with us. That summer, if 
memory serves me right, we got 26 
ground hogs, large and small, old and 
young, and about 16 of these had taken 
refuge in trees in the woods nearby. 
Now (speaking from my own ex- 
perience), they will climb any tree from 
a sapling as thick as your wrist to a 
tree 18 inches in diameter at the bot- 
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