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Identifier: ForeststreamXXIIA (find matches)
Title: Forest and stream
Year: 1873 (1870s)
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Subjects: Periodicals Hunting Fishing Outdoor life Sports
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : (Forest and Stream Publishing Co.)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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l -WELL ASP HTEOHG, and dont; need to Insure. Queer logic!Wha yon are sick or broken dcfwn you cant ge.t insured. Now is ilietiqiB to insure—«n the Tfityelers, of Hartford, conn., best and cheap-est of sound companieS,£i:<4i5i;, Correspondents who favor us with club scores are pnrtioularly re-quested to v:rite on one side of the paper only. A NEW BIRD TRAP.-Robert A. Huebner, the well-known Colonelof the Independent Gun Club of tliis city, has invented a bird trap, onwhich application fas been made tor letters patent. Briefly ic maybe descrlDed as a pole, up and dowTi which moves a metal cyhndercariyuig a wii-e cage. A falling weight gives the cage on upwardmotion, and reaching the top of the stake a projection relieves thesprings on thsi sides and top of the cage, lii&y fliip away, leaving thebird free, and the mo-a:enrurn senils it up into tji e air, So that such aprovoking occurrence as a bird walJdag ontof the tran does not bcc-jj-. 294 FOREST AND STREAM. (Not. 6, 1884.
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WELLINGTON, Nov. 1.—The members of the Maiden Gun Olub■were out in full numbers to-day to indulge in a score or more ofevents, as-well as to wi ness the trial of skill between Messrs. Dickeyand Spofford in breaking 50 birds for the Ligowsky badge in Statebadge match. Dickey scored 43 to his opponents 41, and won. Theother events were: 1. Five pigeons—Eager and Wilbur first, Clark and Mitchell second,Dickey third. 2. Three pairs—AVUbur flret. Eager second, Dickey third. 3. Seven pigeons—Eager flrbt, Clark second, Dickey third. 4. Five pigeons—Eager and Spofford first, Dickey second. Claikthird. 5. Five pigeons—Eager first, Clark second, Dickey third. 6. Five pigeons—Dickev and Eager first, Wilbur second. Law andClark third. 7. Five pigeons—Dickey fir.qt. Adams second, Wilbur third. 8. Miss and out-Taken by Eager. 9. Mi-s and out—Taken by Eager. 10. Miss and out—Taken y Wilbur. 11. Miss and oui—Taken by Dickey. 12. Five pigeons—Eager and Dickey first, W

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