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FOREST AND STREAM. 

[JuLy 6, 1907. 


































PETIT PPEr 
HUNTER ONE- -TRI 
LARD'S PATENT eh 
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Open to the world. The HUNTER 
ONE-TRIGGER does the business. 

No gun you can procure will give more 
Hopkins @ Allen light caliber rifle. 
Rifles before your vacation. 
drive tacks at 60 yards ; handle perfectly ; 
any other rifles on the market of equal grade. 






No. 722. 3% lbs. 18-in. Barrel. 
Has block action and positive safety arrange- : 
ment. Shoots .22 short and long rimfire cartridges. 
American Walnut Stock: Barrel black rifle steel, 33 in. 
entire length. .-.. . Fi BP crc 


No. 822. 4\bs. 20-in. Barrel. 
Lever Action Gun with improved 
Shoots .22 long or short rimfire 
An improved 
safety features. 
cartridges. 
our improved extra quick twist. 
Weight 4 lbs. 35-in. overall 







The liveliest competition of the season. 
satisfaction 
They are light, trim and up to date, 
and can be taken apart and packed in the suit case for traveling. 
You can find them at any good hardware or sporting goods store. 
have deep seated screw-key take-down joints and cost less than 







3.50 




Barrel 20 in. of best black rifle steel, deep rifled with 
Stock select American Walnut 
No. 832. Same patternand size as above, but chambered for 
.32 cal. short cartridge, $4.50 

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22 Caliber-BEST MADE AT THE PRICE—32 Caliber 
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vacation than a 
shoot true to your aim 
Make it a point to examine these 
They 
during the months of 





No. 922, Leveraction— 
shoots .22 caliber short, 
long and long rifle cart- 
ridges. Has rebounding 
hammer, casy action, 
best safety arrangement. 
Barrel, high power rifle 
steel, stock best grade of 
Walnut. Weighs 
1°23 Ibs. Barrel 29-in. 
38-in. over all. 
$5.50 














No. 932. Same pat- 
teen and size as 
i wove. Chambered 
| and rifled for 
| .32 short and 
long cartridges. 






$4.50 




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It illustrates and describes all these rifles, as well 
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The Hopkins @.Allen Arms Co. 
Largest Mfrs. High Grade, 
Smith’s I. X. L. No. L.| 
A most elastic and durable finish for 
hard wood, stained or grained work on 
interiors of yachts, Steamers, steamboats, 
etc. 
Free working, dries with a full and 
brilliant surface, and can be rubbed toa 
dead finish in from three to four days. 
EDWARD SMITH @ COMPANY 
Varnish Makers and Color Grinders, 
59 Market Street 45 Broadway 
Chicago New York 
Money refunded if it bites or burns 
the tongue. Sent prepaid postage 
75c Pound. Large Sample 10c. 
JASPER L. ROWE, 
RICHMOND, VA. 
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Dept. 74 
Popular Priced Firearms in the World. 

Castle Dome Cut Plug 
THE BEST SMOKE FOR THE PIPE 
in America. Made from Old Virginia Sun-Cured 
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Patent Reflecting Lamps 
THOMAS J. CONROY, Agent, 
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When writing say you saw the adv. in 
ForEST AND STREAM. 
-in soil adaptability 

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and its wood is more durable. Besides, catalpa 
will grow well on ground that. is too wet for 
larch, or which is flooded so often that success 
with farm crops jis uncertain. 
Of the 16 larch plantations examined, to have 
paid more than $4 per acre, and of these 2 have 
paid more than $7 per acre. This indicates 
that if a market develops for larch posts and 
poles, as seems likely, planting larch will at 
least be as profitable as taising ordinary farm 
crops. 
Because Osage orange has been planted 
mainly for hedges its value as a plantation tree 
has been passed over. That it is unsurpassed 
and in hardiness has been 
amply demonstrated. The only danger lies in 
the northern part of the State, where it is likely 
to winterkill. The two Osage orange planta- 
tions examined show an average annual income 
of $3.12 per acre, a sum which undoubtedly 
could have been increased had the original 
spacing been closer. There is good reason to 
believe that’ Osage orange will pay on ground 
which is unsuited to catalpa or larch and which, 
at the same time, will not bring a proper return 
from farm crops. 
The average return from black walnut is low, 
since this tree requires many years to reach a size 
profitable to cut. It is true that one 20-year- 
old grove shows an annual income of $2.05 per 
acre, but this is computed for posts, and no 
owner of -a walnut grove is likely to cut it 
for these. Two groves in Whiteside and 
counties show annual incomes of $3.66 
and $3.32 per acre, respectively, at_the end of 
forty-nine and sixty-four years. These, how- 
ever, are. by far the best walnut groves 
measured. Even under the best conditions wal- 
nut requires at least fifty years to reach a 
profitable cutting size, while in one hundred 
years the profit should be much larger. Few 
persons, however, are likely to undertake such 
a long-time investment. 
In addition to giving tables showing the rate 
of growth of all the species of trees, which have 
been largely planted in Illinois, suggestions are 
given as to the best methods of planting and 
thinning a forest plantation, and reference is 
made to a plantation recently started by the 
Northern Illinois State Normal School at De 
Kalb, according to plans prepared by the Forest 
Service. One of the most instructive planta- 
tions examined was that established in 1871 by 
the University of Illinois at Urbana. This 
covers about’ 13 acres and contains 20 species 
many of which have grown well. 
Morgan 
of forest trees, 
THE TIMBER SUPPLY 
Every person in the United States is using 
over six times as much wood as he would use 
if he were in Europe. The country as a whole 
consumes every year between three and four 
times more wood than all of the forests of the 
United States grow in the meantime. The 
average acre of forest lays up a store of only 
ro cubic feet annually, whereas it ought to be 
laying up at least 30 cubic feet to furnish the 
products taken out of it. Since 1880 more than 
700,000,000,000 feet of timber have been cut for 
lumber alone, including 80,000,000,000 feet of 
coniferous timber in excess of the total conifer- 
ous stumpage estimate of the Census in 1880. 
These are some of the remarkable statements 
made by. R. S. Kellogg in Circular 97 of the 
Forest Service, which deals with. the timber sup- 
ply of the United States and reviews the stump- 
age estimates made by all the important author- 
ities. A study of the circular must lead directly 
to the conclusion that the rate at which forest 
products in the United States have been and 
are being consumed is far too lavish, and that 
only one result can follow unless steps are 
promptly taken to prevent waste in use and to 
increase the growth rate of every acre of forest 
in the United States. The result is a timber 
famine. This country is to-day in the same 
position with regard to forest resources as was 
Germany 150 years ago. During this period of 
150 years such German States as Saxony and 
Prussia, particularly the latter, have applied a 
policy of gavernment control and regulation 
which has immensely increased the productivity 


