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Show YVORLD OUTDOORS WHAT better time of the year could there be for a contest now being sponsored by a tire company a contest designed especially es-pecially for sportsmen? This new idea offers contest winners fishing vacations for two, after Alaska salmon, Mexican big game fishing, fish-ing, Nicaragua tarpon fishing, and others. It's a novel idea. When did the great auk disappear? dis-appear? It is estimated they became be-came extinct about 1844. Today there are not more than 800 mounted specimens in the world. How fast do fish grow? It depends de-pends upon the species, of course, but more Important, it depends upon the productivity of the water wa-ter in which the fish lives. An important factor is the "balance" of a given lake or stream area the proportion of one species of fish as related to the others. Overpopulation Over-population of one species gen- an; icauin ill owtutkcu valines. valin-es. Water temperature, environment environ-ment and available food supply each have an effect on the growth of fish. What's new? A fiberglas reinforced rein-forced boat and outboard motor cover, now stocked in most major ma-jor department stores. It can be put on In minutes, completely covering boat and windshield and it stays on. A rugged polyethylene poly-ethylene line running through rust-proof grommeta completely around the cover aeea to that. Who uses water, other than fishermen fish-ermen and housewives? Industry uses some 80 to 85 billion gallons a day; an even larger amount may be used each day for irrigation irriga-tion DUrDoses. as mnrh a 100 billion gallons a day. |