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[SEPT. 21, 
19¢ 

I never experienced 
relief. 1 think 
hear of, 
instantaneous 
that I could 
anything like such 
the above may be interesting to sportsmen gen- 
erally, campers-out, ete., but for those who keep 
dogs I want to them to try its effect for 
eczema on their dogs. 
| have for years used 
for mange or eczema a 
long ago by an old dog 
never found fail, and which 1 also found 
good, but it was greasy, and made a dog 
so that he could not be allowed in the house. 
This year, having a setter attacked by eczema, 
I tried naphthaline, and it is fully as efficacious 
as anything I have tried before and a great deal 
more so, while at the same time there is noth- 
ing in the smell, which also quickly goes off, to 
prevent the dog, which in my case is a house 
pet, as well as very good in the field, from being 
years 
ask 
cure 
me 
had 
very 
smell 
for my dogs as a 
prescription given 
fancier, which he 
in the house, night or day. 
Apart from eczema it also clears every flea 
off a dog and cleans his skin wonderfully if well 
does a 
with 
Neither 
the case 
having it 
remedies of 
dog mind 
most 
rubbed in. 
applied as 1s 
that sort. 
Naphthaline can be bought at 
put up in one-pound packets as a preservative 
against moths. It is a product of coal tar, and 
there can be nothing in it which could hurt. 
Having begun using it dissolved in wood 
icohol I have continued to use it in that form, 
but probably it would be fully as efficacious or 
more so, if that were possible, if dissolved in 
any druggist’s 

pure grain alcohol. BLUE Rock. 
Ohio Game. 
M110, Jhio, Sept. 9.—Editor Forest and 
Stream: While out on one of our streams yes- 
terday I came on to a gray squirrel and he was 
so supprised when I came up to him that he 
jumped in the stream and started to cross. After 
going about half way over he turned around and 
came back to the side of the stream he had 
started from, landed on the bank about four feet 
from me, and came by me on a run. I after- 
ward went across the stream and found the bank 
full of woodchuck holes and thought, perhaps, 
that was his reason, if he could have had one, 
for coming back after being so badly frightened. 
We are going to have a good crop of quail 
this fall. Most of the farms are posted, and 
although the owners will allow you to hunt 
rabbits on their farms, they will not let you 
shoot the quail. One farmer told me this spring 
that he would not have the quail shot off his 
farm for two dollars apiece. He said, “Come 
out and get all the rabbits you want, but if T 
catch you shooting quail I may take a shot a 
you,” M. P. KEEFE. 


HEADWATERS OF 
Frem 
THE 
BARTHOLOMEW 
a photograph by Fred W. 


Calling vs. Still-Hunting Moose. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Is it not a strange thing that many local gov- 
ernments, which carefully protect all other game 
in the mating season, fail to do so in the case 
of the noblest of all our fauna, the cervide? 
New Brunswick allows the killing of moose on 
and after Sept. rs, and Nova Scotia, Oct. 1, 
while Maine also caters to the calling habit, as 
moose are very frequently called after the 20th 
of October and occasionally later than the 25th. 
There are certainly many sportsmen who, 
while enjoying the sport of calling to the utmost, 
would gladly see the habit entirely done away 
with, out of justice to the game. The meat, too, 
in the mating season, is inferior in flavor. But 
since the laws do allow calling, a comparison 
of the sportsmanship of the method with that 
of still-hunting may be in order at this time. 
There is no phrase in sporting literature more 
rolled under the tongue by writers on big game 
hunting than ‘fair and square still-hunting,’ and 
nearly all these gentlemen take no pains to hide 
their contempt for the man who, as they aver, 
lure the moose, at a season when the bull is 
blinded by passion and totally off his guard, 
sure death, or worse yet, sit quietly and com- 
fortably on a rock while his guide does all the 
scientific part of the work, and then shoots the 
unsuspecting quarry down. 3ut just to bring 
out the opinions of your contributors on this 
subject, I will make bold to declare it my own 
opinion that, as the two methods are generally 
practiced, calling is the more sportsmanlike sys- 
tem, for the great reason that, if the still-hunter 
is successful, he, and not the caller, shoots down 
an animal which is totally unsuspecting and 
wholly off its guard. 
What, though, is the case in calling? The 
bull moose, far from being so blinded by pas- 
sion as to be unsuspicious, is never in the whole 
course of his existence so absolutely suspicious 
and on his guard as when he approaches either 
a cow or a caller in the mating season. Un- 
questionably he is eager for the tryst, but his 
every sense is alert, for his instinct, and: often 
his experience, tells him that many a danger 
lurks. His eyes, his ears and most of all his 
abnormal nose are never so keenly at work. 
Let the lightest breath of air be stirring and 
he will never come to the call except from the 
leeward, circling the locality of the call if neces- 
sary, and then his coming will depend entirely 
upon the scent his delicate nostrils receive. If 
a cow is calling he will come; if a man, never. 
Would this be the case if he were the passion- 
blinded, unsuspecting beast the ‘fair and square 
still-hunters’”” would make him? I trow not. 
It will be said that the caller plies his trade 
only in a dead calm, when the chief defensive 
ABOVE 
Osgood. 
RIVER THE DAM. 



weapon of the bull is powerless. This musi 
admitted; but does the still-hunter take no s 
advantage of his quarry? 
“There are some days,’ says the classic 
thority on still-hunting, “when you might alrk 
as well stay at home. Such are the still, wh 
days of autumn, when you can hear a squik 
scamper over the dead leaves a hundred yi}; 
away. * Such are the days when the sil 
Is crusty and stiff or grinds under your f), 
4 * in short, all days when you cannot vh 
without making a noise, ete.; * * * agains|f 
strong wind they cannot smell you and ear 
hear you as well as usual.” p 
This was written of deer hunting, and maj 
have bigger and better noses and ears. I) 
the good still-hunter of moose go forth in 
weather but that of his own choosing? Ne} 
He chooses a windy day, and one on wij 
neither too much dryness nor crusty snow |, 
cause noisy walking, and he approaches |; 
guarry carefully from the leeward side or ac}, 









































































the wind. The storm-and-stress period of | 
great beasts’ yearly life has ended, they Ih 
yarded and are either lying down, quietly |, 
peacefully resting, or as peacefully browsing |j 
the young birches, in either case as unsuspic J 
as a moose ever is. The moose lies down y/ 
his eyes and nose to leeward and throws up} 
big ears to catch any sound borne to him| 
the wind blowing over his back. He feels | 
self secure, for he is at home and not going 
of his way to “look for trouble’ as when 
went courting. On this account any ho: 
sound comes as a surprise and he is not e:| 
cially on his guard; for which reason, as ab 
said, when he is shot it is from ambush | 
without warning. 
Much more might be said about the comp:| F 
tive success of the two methods, whether th) 
are more failures in calling than in still- hi), 
ing, as I believe; the difficulty of shoot), 
straight after waiting near the freezing py|, 
for an hour, usually more, ete. It is, of cou}, 
more sportsmanlike to call a bull yourself t}, 
to have him called for you, but might not 
same argument be used against the bird hu F 
who uses a setter? Watching a good dog w 
is acknowledged to be one of the great cha 
of bird shooting, and yet he greatly aids 
hunter. He warns his master and even po ( 
out the very spot whence the quarry will rit 
How, then, about the calling of a moose? } 
there no interest in seeing and hearing a Pty, | 
ticed guide call up a bull moose? Verily th? 
is. And the moments following the answee | 
the bull cannot be matched in any kind of he 



ing for excitement. EDWARD Breck” 
ior 
The Old Guard. f 
SUSQUEHANNA County, Pa., Sept. 4.—E dit, 
Forest and Stream: Am I entitled to line }; 
with the Old Guard? For the past twenty- bt 
years I have read every issue of Forest 4} 
STREAM from cover to cover; and during 
early eighties I became an occasional contri 
tor over the fun name of “Boss Ami.” For : 
past few years my time has been so fully {t 
cupied by other and more imperative duties tl 
I found little time to use my pen. But i 
interest in and love for “our paper’ has | 
flagged or diminished, and the Old Guard, 
many of whom have passed away, will ever |, 
dear to me. 
I am another who would be very glad o} 
reprint of the “Camps of the Kingfishers,” < 
would most willingly pay the price. Hope th} 
are enough who feel the same that we nil’ 
get it. G. W. Bunneit[’ 
















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Evaporated Milk keep indefinitely, anywhere, a 
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