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In writing to Advertisers mention Forest and Stream. 
When the land came under the plow 
and a great variety of grains began to 
be grown, the crow added them to his 
menu, and with them all the different 
kinds of worms and insects which we 
all know follow the farming trail, in 
fact it seems as if his “menu card” has 
been lengthened an hundred fold, for 
notwithstanding the fact that so many 
hunters are after him every chance and 
enormous numbers of his family are 
being killed every year, he appears to 
hold his own remarkably well. Many 
authorities say he is on the increase. 
So I, for one, say to Mr. Landreth, 
“Well done, brother,” keep up your 
good work thinning out the ranks of 
this “black peril,’ and the load you 
recommend for the 12 ga. is surely 
A No. 1. It will pull them down as 
far as necessary. I would like very 
much to take the above mentioned 12 
gauge Fox and join you on an expedi- 
tion to one of those roosts you men- 
tioned, as I have never had the ex- 
perience of shooting the black fellows 
at a roost. The way we attend to their 
cases in this neighborhood is to take 
a couple good crow calls, our old 12 
gauges and lots of shells of about the 
same load mentioned, load everything 
in old Liz, and then hike to the out-of- 
the-way places off the main highways, 
pick out a nice thick clump of trees 
and hide ourselves good (for Mr. Crow 
has mighty sharp eyes). 
We use the call for just a few “caws” 
and if there are any crows in hearing 
you will know it very soon, the first 
ones to come will probably alight on 
the nearest dead tree, and you just 
keep still as the much talked of mouse. 
They will sit on the tree a short time, 
giving a few calls and then go back to 
where they came from; as soon as they 
are out of sight you commence to 
“talk” crow on the old caller and the 
first one getting in range pull him 
down. If you have not had any ex- 
perience in this game you have a very 
pleasurable surprise coming to you, 
for as long as you remain out of sight 
of the crows, the shooting and calling 
seems to get them so excited they do 
not appear to be much worried about 
some of their party being knocked 
down. If you can get a good location at 
the edge of a field where the hit crows 
will fall out in the open, so much the 
better, as a wounded fluttering crow 
or two in the grass will be the cause 
of a lot of excitement among the ones 
flying overhead. Sometimes you can 
wipe out an entire small flock of 10 or 
15 members, a pump or auto gun is 
very fine for this work, but of course 
every one knows who goes after crows 
or anything else will use his own choice 
of a gun. The writer’s preference is 
the above mentioned Fox, which was 
made to his own ideas of what a gun 
should be, for just himself, viz., 12 ga. 
It will identify you. 



32” fluid steel barrel, right bbl. mod. 
left full, and it is plenty good enough 
to travel in speedy company. It has 
automatic ejectors, which come in 
mighty handy when you are in a little 
bit of a hurry, as you will be if you | 
ever try the writer’s recipe for some. 
very good sport. | 
When you are out after crows you / 
will in all probability run across quite 
a number of snakes of the unbottled 
variety, and right here is where you 
can do a lot of good for the farmers _ 
and the country at large, for the 
farmer is the backbone of this country. 
Let the snake live, unless it is one of 
the poisonous variety, of which we 
have only two kinds here in the north- 
ern part of the country (copper-head — 
and rattler). All the other kind are 
of more benefit alive than dead, for 
their main article of food is the little 
field mouse, and they also eat enor- | 
mous numbers of the hard shelled 
beetles which are hard on some of the 
farmer’s crops. Of course they get a 
bird once in a great while, but they are. 
entitled to a change. If you ever had 
any experience with a barn in the coun- | 
try, you know how hard it is to keep 
grain safe from the mice and rats, and 
all the cats that ever lived around the 
place did not help to keep the rats and 
mice down. Just get a couple nice fat 
black snakes to take up their house- 
keeping around that barn, and see what 
happens to the rats. Here again you 
will say the black snake is hard on 
birds. He gets a few birds and some- 
times a young rabbit, but not very often. 
Let the harmless snakes alone. We 
humans have destroyed more rabbits 
and birds needlessly than all the snakes 
in America have since Columbus 
landed, in fact you might say we are 
all the time destroying Nature’s bal- 
ance. That’s the prime reason you and 
I and the other fellow have to be shoot- 
ing crows to keep them thinned down. 
We first killed the owl, the crows got 
too plentiful and now what will it be 
after the crow? 
Take the case of the jack-rabbits in 
the West. First we killed off the co-— 
yote or prairie wolf by the tens of thou- 
sands via the poison route, then Mr. 
Jack got so plentiful we had to stop 
our work on the ranches every once 
in a while and organize a big hunting 
party to keep his numbers down so we 
could raise something else besides the | 
dickens. It seems as if old Mother 
Nature knows her business pretty well, 
does it not? And every time we dis-— 
turb the balance there is some reac-_ 
tion which is not always to our benefit, 
but more often to our detriment. 
i 
CHARLES C. RUPERT, 
Oakmont, Pa. | 























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