English Setters, Pointers 
and 
Wire Haired Fox Terriers 
Puppies and grown dogs 
of the best of breeding 
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Good dogs at stud 
GEO. W. LOVELL 
MIDDLEBORO, MASS. 
Tel. 29-M 

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Men wanting forest ranger, railway mail clerk, 
special agent and other government positions, 
$1500 to $2600 year. 
lars and list of positions. 
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Write for free particu- 
Mokane, Dept. 262, 

STA‘TEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, MAN. 
AGEMENT, CIRCULATION, ETC., RE- 
QUIRED BY THE ACT OF CON- 
GRESS OF AUGUST 24, 1912 
of Forest and Stream, published monthly at New 
Mork;eINipy ator sOct. lst, ozo: 
State of New York } 
County of New York {f SS: 
Before me, a Notary Public, in and for the 
State and county aforesaid, personally appeared 
T. H. Mearns, who, having been duly sworn ac- 
cording to law, deposes and says that he is the 
Business Manager of the FOREST AND 
STREAM and that the following is, to the best of 
his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the 
ownership, management (and if a daily paper, the 
circulation), etc., of the aforesaid publication for 
the date shown in the above caption, required by 
the Act of August 24, 1912, embodied in section 
443, Postal Laws and Regulations, printed on the 
reverse of this form, to wit: 
1. That the names and addresses of the pub- 
lisher, editor, managing editor, and business 
managers are: 
Publisher, Forest and Stream Publishing Co., 
221 (W. 67th St., No Yi. City. 
Editor, Aliens A. Bruette, 221 W. 57th St., 
NY 2 City. 
Managing Editor, William A. Bruette, 221 W. 
Dut iol anu Wis uCitys 
Business Manager, T. H. Mearns, 221 W. 57th 
Sty Ne) Mie Gity, 
2. That the owners are: (Give names and ad- 
dresses of individual owners, or, if a corporation, 
give its name and the names and addresses of 
stockholders owning or holding 1 per cent or more 
of the total amount of stock.) Forest and Stream 
Publishing Co., 221 W. 57th St., New York, 
IN ets oh are A. Bruette, 221 W. d7th St., New 
York, George Bird Grinnell, 238 E. 15th 
St; New ine IN ays sale lon barker seittes 
burgh, Pa. 
3. That the known bondholders, mortgagees 
and other security holders owning or holding 1 
per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mort- 
gages, or other securities are: (If there are none, 
so state.) None. 
4. That the two paragraphs next above, giving 
the names of the owners, stockholders and secur- 
ity holders, if any, contain not only the list of 
stockholders and security holders as they appear 
upon the books of the company, but also, in cases 
where the stockholder or security holder appears 
upon the books of the company as trustee or in 
any other fiduciary relation, the name of the per- 
son or corporation for whom such trustee is act- 
ing, is given; also that the said two paragraphs 
contain statements embracing affiant’s full knowl- 
edge and belief as to the circumstances and con- 
ditions under which stockholders and_ security 
holders who do not appear upon the books of the 
company as trustees, hold stock and securities in 
a capacity other than that of a bona fide owner; 
and this affiant has no reason to believe that any 
other person, association, or corporation has any 
interest direct or indirect in the said stock. bonds, 
or other securities than as so stated by him. 
T. H. MEARNS, Business Manager. 
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 30th 
day of Sept., 1925. 
[Seal] EDITH L. BRAZEAU. 
(My commission expires March 30, 1927.) 
768 


In writing to Advertisers mention Forest and Stream. 
Practical Game Breeding 
(Continued from page 718) 
turkey hens will come home to roost. 
Last January I saw a flock of wild tur- 
keys roosting out in the bare trees 
when it was 24 degrees -below zero. 
They had stood 48 degrees in Decem- 
ber. I saw these same wild turkeys 
in an exhibition at Edmonton. Not 
only were the tail coverts true to color, 
a deep brick brown, but the slim, alert 
shape of body and neck were true indi- 
cations of their wild nature. So it is 
possible to tame the real wild birds, as 
I never saw better behaved birds any- 
where than at that exhibition. 
During December you will want to 
watch the snow for tracks of cats, 
mink, weasels, skunk and other vermin 
that may be prowling about your birds 
o’ nights. There is an abundance of 
sport provided for the shooter, hunter 
and trapper raising wild game, and 
plenty of ammunition will be shot off 
by every game breeder to satisfy fully 
the powder manufacturers. Vermin 
shooting lasts all year. I used to shoot 
a lot of small vermin with a .22 for 
the sport of giving them a chance, but 
now I use a .410 as it is exasperating 
shooting owls, skunk, cats and other 
night prowlers in the dark with a .22. 
Have your box traps baited with fish 
for cats and you will find a skunk in 
them now and then. See that your 
sparrow traps are working, too, as you 
will need them during this month when 
the sparrows gather around the barns. 
—_— 
A Day with the Sea Fowl 
(Continued from page 735) 
moving rapidly down the shore. We 
had little hope of a shot until some hun- 
ter fired on the from long range, at 
which they headed out to sea past us. 
As they came nearer, we saw that 
there were four coot and a small duck 
of some sort, probably a teal. It 
seemed as if they must pass us out of 
range, but the coot saw our “shadows,” 
and swung up wind towards our de- 
coys. The coot decoyed perfectly, but 
the teal (for such he proved to be) 
merely inspected our set and started 
to flare off when two charges of “No. 4 
Chilled” stopped him. We managed to 
get a coot apiece before they reached 
safety. On retrieving we found the 
teal to be a male green-wing, while the 
two coot were “skunk-heads,” beauti- 
ful jet black birds, with their fore- 
heads and the napes of their necks a 
pure white. How the teal happend to 
be flocking with these coot we were 
unable to conjecture. 
“This surely is a red-letter day for 
us,” remarked Jim, “that is as far as 
an unusual bag is concerned.” To this 
I fully agreed. 
Now came another long wait, for the 
day was too fine for the birds to be 
flying well. The sun sank low on the 
horizon and it looked as though our 
shooting was over. We agreed, how- 
eevr, to remain out until sunset, in 
spite of our long row home. This was 
fortunate, for at the last moment we 
were rewarded. Just as the sun was 
sinking, the well-known long black line 
of approaching birds appeared on the 
horizon. They did not veer an inch, 
and there was no doubt that they were 
coming in to us. But the sun had dis- 
appeared behind the dunes and we 
watched the lighthouse anxiously, fear- 
ing lest it stop our shooting at the cru- 
cial moment. It was still unlit and 
the birds were banking up to drop in 
amongst our decoys. Again the leaden 
volley hurled its fatal greeting into 
that flock, and again it seemed to rain 
birds. When the echoes died away, the 
dead floated limply on the water, and, 
even as we hauled up anchor to re- 
trieve and pick up our decoys, the 
lighthouse blazed forth its warning, 
officially terminating the shooting for 
the day. After picking up the decoys 
we began our long row home. 
Later, after consuming a prodigious 
supper, as we surveyed our birds-hung 
on the game hooks, with the moon shin- 
ing softly on their glossy plumage, we 
heartily agreed that one more red let- 
ter day had been registered in our 
hunting calendar. 

How the Game Is Counted 
in the National Forests 
(Continued from page 741) 
hill and much real work is necessary 
to right it and get under way again. 
Bek counting the elk, consider- 
able other information was ob- 
tained, such as: numbers of deer, 
mountain sheep and moose in the area, 
kinds and amount of forage consumed 
by game, routes of travel to and from 
their summer range, all of which is 
necessary for the proper handling of 
such large numbers of game animals. 
The count showed 3,955 elk in the 
Sun River herd, which places it 
amongst the very few remaining large 
elk herds, and as this herd has in- 
creased from 200 or 300 head since 
1913, it proves that game protection 
does pay and that counts and estimates 
are necessary for the proper adminis- 
tration of our game herds. 
Year after year these estimates be- 
come more accurate because the rang- 
ers become more intimately acquainted 
with the game haunts and more actual 
counts are being made. Probably the 
actual number of deer, elk, moose, etc., 
on the National Forests will never be 
known, but an approximation close 
enough for practical management will 
be secured. 
It will identify you. 
