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the resistance of the extended line. 
The first condition to killing a hooked fish+is 
to get him under control. . With a long line this 
is difficult, but the yielding winch, which in 
striking adds yards to the length, aggravates 
the difficulty. The line, firmly stopped by the 
fingers, obviates this, and the sharper stroke 
enables the angler to get on equal terms with 
his quarry all the sooner. 
In order to rise and hook salmon, low cast- 
ing is, no doubt, not infrequently necessary. In 
summer fishing, when the water is very low and 
pellucid, and the finest flies and tackle are re- 
quired (to say nothing of suitably Staining gut 
and reel-line), the most successful anglers are 
those who keep well back from the pools and 
catches, and cast a long line with a light hand. 
In shallow water, a fish can see a considerable 
distance (particularly forward) as he’ rises to- 
ward the surface of the river, and there are 
times, when he is taking, or about to take, the 
fly, that the shadow of boat, angler, or attendant 
will put him down. (Again, compare trout 
fishing. ) 
Most of this long casting is effected by the 
unwinding of a quantity of line from the reel, 
and then shooting it through the rings; but as 
there is always more or less loose line in the 
angler’s hand, striking from the reel is then im- 
possible. An angler, therefore, who has not 
disciplined himself to strike gently with a tight 
line, must either forego this method of essay- 
ing to hook, or study to acquire it. 
Both the free-winch method of striking and, 
indeed, any fashion of striking, are condemned 
by soine instructors, who counsel the holding 
of a tight line and the leaving it to the fish to 
hook himself. At close quarters that may be 
all very well, but with a long line, which in the 
hands of the most accomplished artist will be- 
come slack and curved—sagged or tortuous— 
one can hardly see how the fish will then have 
sufficient fulcrum to hook himself except very 
lightly; and the ease and rapidity with which a 
slightly hooked salmon can and-does free him- 
self are too well known—alas!—British Sports- 
man. 

INDIA’S INSECT PESTS. 
. CONSUL-GENERAL W. H. Micuaet, of Calcutta, 
reporting on the destructiveness of insects in 
India, says: 
The white ant is one of the most destructive 
of all the pests in India. There is no wood that 
resists its attack except sandal. 
reducing white pine or white wood to powder. 
The ant cannot work in the light. It must get 
at the wood from a dark recess and work within 
a shell. It will in some mysterious way get into 
a veneered picture frame or one with a thick 
coating of lacquer and in a short while only the 
veneering ‘or lacquer remains, while the white 
wood body of the frame is found to be entirely 
reduced to powder of the finest sort, and but 
little of the powder remains, the ant having con- 
sumed the bulk of the wood. Its method of de- 
struction is by emitting a kind of acid’ which. 
deteriorates the wood. It is not an uncommon 
thing to find holes in the sheet iron bottoms ‘of 
trunks, which have been made by the pest. 
An acquaintance was-absent from his home for 
a few months. He covered his furniture and 
prepared thoroughly, as he thought, against the 
ravages of insects. On his return he sat down 
in a chair that had been carefully covered, and 
it crushed down beneath his weight as if it had 
been made of cardboard. Upon examination it 
was found that the white wood body of the chair 
had. been eaten out by white ants, leaving only 
the veneering and gold leaf covering. The other 
chairs of the set were examined, and all were 
found to be in the’same condition, The furni- 
ture appeared intact, but the moment it was 
touched it crumbled into dust. The ants. will 
get into joists and eat away the center, leaving 
only a-shell. Several joists thus eaten out have 
been replaced in the consulate building by iron 
ones. 
The ants attack books and destroy them, but 
they are not specially fond of literature. I have 
a book with one hole through from one side of 
the cover to the other made by a white ant. The 
hole is about the size of an ordinary pin and per- 

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