The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-02-15

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Elimination and congestion.
Extcrnal and penetrating. All
druggists. $1.0O, Soc, 5 In
sure today.
nm against the wind, and the gunner
wants it blowing over his back anu
over the wooden decOyS which are
sc tered to the sides and IN front o.
him, from 400 to $50 Of them. NO
child'e play to put them down 50 as 70
make the most alluring effect and no
-oke to pull them up, each With us
heavy anchorage in h freezing nush
of a fast dying winter day.
A good goose rig will include a NICE
bunch of live decoys. The general
idea is that the live decoy is a sure
enough Wildt goose crippled by a sno
and captured to become the Benedict
Arnold of his race. This Is not so.
Out Of a bunch of thirteen live decoys
set out to one Of the best goose rigs
in Ocracoke two only were old ume
cripples. The balance were all hatch
ed for the job-captives from the eggs
and brought up i'll the domestic duck
pond.
We find says the owner, hatch
in a thunderin' sight easier and surer
than catchin', and the only difference
l I've ever seen between the crippless
l and the others Is hat When l take EN-
, home the cripples stick more to the
Aat.r while the others ran around
I with the hens and ducks"
The Ocracoke guide lays great store
9 by his live decoys and endows them
{ with an amount of intelligence almost
human. When the deooy sees his
{ wild mate he certainly kicks up q ire
- x-- 49,
) The natural assumption would be that
n he was feeling bad at being anchored
/ by the leg in one spot, and that the
e call Of the wild was summoning him
d to join hat aerial alignment Of IN
fettered honkers.
But the owners explanation is
more subtle. His decoy Is onto hi
q OBJ. he stoutly contends. and
= making all that fuss and noise on tn,
l. principle that misery loves company
e and because he is plumb tickled to &C
q as a deliberate traitor of the deepes
dye and lure his brothers of the al
Re INTO a bunch of trouble.
Be that as 1t may, on & smooth
e calm day, especially il the sun is be
q mind a haze, the live decoys will wori
10 wonders for the gunner. In rougl
J" weather live geese anchored as the
"a are, get jounced up and down to
T. much: they tire out qickly, get listles
LIZ uLd6SiCA, liz SIlOC1N De taken II
IN With a choppy sea the Woode decoy:
Oh rolling and bouncing about. give q
IS, .he effect necessary, and the effect
Ii heightened II the suns glare is strOn
,o enough to light up the white under
Ok bodies as they are tossed up by tn
ayes.
al Not that. as many accustomed I
We Long Island and Jersey wild fov
~ shooting might surmise, cold. storm
s' weather is an essential for good spol
among the OcracOke geese and bran
es some OF the finest cunning here is
OF .e had In h the natives call
u: slick cam with the sun SHINING n,
ry of a cloudless blue and the temper,
cure such that the shooting coat an
re- sweater become a burden and tt
;or gunner can rest In his box strippe
Town TO his shirt and trousers. Wi,
TO- CAIN 10 moderate weather, and IL
Zoe on the tull ebb. q man who know
ose his little book can kill all the goo.
he and brant his conscience will a!lo
TX h.m six days out Of six,
On the flood tide let him stay asho,
or on the hOuseboat, cleaning his e,
and swapping stories. The lower Il
tide the better the shooting, and Il
only blank days are the Gavs VIII,
III -, The ebb sets in SO late that the gu
~ ner's effective time is Whitfield dow
to a minimum. Neither goose n
as Drant will flop a wing alter foo
90 deem for than - - water
AT it ~ ~ s
ing
OF mere are as many fine points
on Da.tely snoo1hs as 70 a cactus lie;
ERR Perhap the very hardest thing tn
to IS to lie down and keep stock sti
ned Nothing must show above the sides
to the box at the Lead Of which is a Sc
hat ~ pouno plock OF pig iron
ore eau oH eiiS nedo weight, with I
Eve %scantiest of coverings over i ~
cot the %gunner's head. g
nth Too plump a pillow would ,if+ i.
lble neao 700 hiSh' SO comfort is sao
: TO hce" W coicealment. just hi
enough az fhof hy HI