FOREST AND STREAM." 



101 



This was marked with longitudinal lines on the side. Tunny 

 must be excellent food, from the great pains taken to catch 

 it in the Mediterranean, and not only Frenchmen but Ital- 

 ians delight in it. Said an ancient Greek poet : — 



"Basse, conger's head, and t 

 Are luxuries to slendei 



s underside. 



On the coast of Sicily tunnies have been caught weighing 

 800 pounds. Aristotle speaks of one weighing 1,200 

 pounds, the tail of which measured two cubits and a palm 



across. 



—•» 



ZOOLOG.Y OF THE BLACK HILLS. 



We clip the following fetter from the Mew York 

 Tribvve:— 

 L'ol. Wk. I.eei.ow. Chic! Ung. Dept. PaUola. 



M« In accordance with your rcquc-t mwie t.i me while at Fort Lin- 

 coln, viz.: that I should make such notes on the zoology of the region 

 a? I could, in connection with mv other .lutes. I have i.. report that al- 

 though my ppportnnltiea f 



■■ r ■ 



I and t 





lake 



fossils. 1 observed 

 abonl one hnndred and twenty spei 

 •. full ennrnt nation of the M3mal8 observed, to- 

 ri, Btich observations as I >ias enabled m make upon their 

 ill appear in 4 detailed report, which I shall have the honor to 

 .in a- soon as practicable. 

 Ba.gamB region the Black Hills will compare very favorably with 

 locality in ihe country. Deer of two species arc most abundant, the 

 te-taited deer e*Deciailv being so numerous about fie- head -water- .<r 

 I 'reck that one hundred «,re killed bv the command in :, -ingle .lav. 

 from indication-, are nnnu-rnus. ullli.mgh o.ilv a few were killed 

 ?ral hears were secured, and not a few exciting incidents occurred 



il.d fresh tracks B 



Hills, and by at 

 iiiite.l. The fo 

 BparatOj woode. 



nd if opened to the wk 

 round by hitn as they r 



hall present later will. 1 trust, be found In- 



preseniing information on the fauna of a 



' "— 1, respeclfnlly, 



Geo. Bikd GtBQttDELL. 

 [Mr. Grinned is known to the readers of Forest amt> 

 Stkbam by the soubriquet of "Okjiis."— Ed.] 



CENTRAL PARK MENAGERIE. 



Department op Public Pabkb, 1 

 New YORK, Sept. SO, 1874. f 



Animals received at Central Park Menagerie for the week ending 

 September 19th, iflM: 



One Red Deer. Carkv-us Virginian »«. Hub. Florida. Presented by 

 Captain E. E. Vail!. St. Augustine. 



Two Iguanas, Iguana tnherodiila. llah. South America. Presented 

 byDr-W. ft. Davis, steamship Colon. 



One Agouti, DlWproeta agvti, So5, South America. Presented hy 

 Miss Mary C, Valentine. 



The following were presented hy Major General G. A. Custer. T.:. S. 

 A., which were captured in tlie Black Hills:— 



Five Kattlesunkes, Two Marsh Hawks, One Badger. One Jackass Bab- 

 bit, One Yellow-haired Porcupine. W. A. Conklin. 



foottlznd, ^mvn md garden. 



A PLEA FOR THE FOREST. 



"WOODMAN SPARE THAT THEE." 



OF late the great drain upon our forests has been al- 

 most, appalling. To sit down quietly and think for 

 a few moments seriously upon the inevitable consequences 

 of the ruthless raid upon our native wilds will be truly one 

 of sorrowful regrets. Why is limber already so very scarce 

 at the present time in many of our Slates? You will find 

 your answer to be, we have few or no forests from which 

 to replenish the devastations by the axe not of the pioneer, 

 but of the ship builder and the mechanic. Time was, 

 within our own recollection, that a single advertisement 

 inserted in that old and well remembered newspaper, the 

 Easm I!'fiislei\ printed at Salem, Massachusetts, would 

 bring the good old oak trees and tall pines into Salem In 

 SUCJI quantities that Enos Briggs, who contracted to re- 

 ceive this timber, found himself compelled, in consequence 

 of the great quantities supplied to him, to insert another 

 advertisement, thanking his patriotic friends for their fa- 

 vors, and asking for a discontinuance of the same. This 

 was in the years 1812-13. Do we now hear of anything of 

 this kind relating to oat 'ship-timber forests of live oaks, 

 or our dens i f -.rests of pines for shipe masts aadspars? 

 In large portions of many of our Stales timber forests are 

 becoming scarcer every" year. Thousands, 1 bad almost 

 said, of land holders now own whole leagues of acres of 

 land with scarcely a saleable stick of ship timber upon 

 litem, to say nothing of the wood denominated cord or Are 

 wood. How many 'acres of dry, rocky pasture lands, with- 

 out a single stream of water, now greet our eyes, where 

 Once the deep, umbrageous shades covered many pebbly 

 brooks and pools of silver water? Gone, gone, are the 

 wide-spreading forests of the Oh.io, Ihe deep, dark pines of 

 Pennsylvania, and the axe of the lumber merchant is at 

 this time also making sad havoc among the pine woods of 

 our eastern State of Maine. Does the warning come any 

 too soon to stay this vandalism of the axe? Somebody has 

 a duty to perform to save our forests that yet remain to us. 

 Some one must talk and write, and impress, if possible, 

 upon the public mind the necessity of preserving our for- 

 ests from further innovation and destruction. For this 

 purpose we of ihe Fokest and Stiieam would again urge 

 all lovers of good sport, all lovers of the wild woods and 

 mountain fastnesses, as well as all who appreciate the value 

 of timber for business uses, to lift up their voices for the 

 woodland forests. Can you save only one. forest from the 

 axe you will not have spoken too soon or in vain. If a 

 motive only of self-interest pervades your breast, and in 

 sparing Ibe forests from a further destruction you do so 

 merely for the preservation of. game for your own shoot- 

 ing, then obey the lower instinct, and we will thank you 

 for this little boon, small as it may be. 



A_<rain, in view of the effects of the great devastation 

 of forest trees upon any given section, the voice of true 

 reason eries out— 



"Woodman spare that tree''— 

 lor in these woods are the lives of yourself and families. 



Every one who is at all observant of the effect produced 

 by an exceeding sparseness of dense forests, must at once 

 be convinced that sickness of many types is sure to become 

 prevalent in districts denuded of the exhalations and timely 

 equilibrium of the shady, cooling wild woods. Now there 

 is a sittple duty that can be performed by every one of the 

 thousands of farmers and land owners in the United States, 

 and they arc culpable for a single season's neglect of so 

 obvious a duty. 



You own acres and acres of land (bat you do nothing 

 with year after year except to pay taxes upon, and I have 

 seen land in many States of this Union that I would not 

 accept as a gift, providing that I should have to pay the 

 taxes. As it lies, it would scarcely support a rabbit, but 

 this land, prior as it is, can be brought into forest culture 

 at a very small expense. We urged something like the 

 above on the owner of thousands of acres in what ate 

 called the "pine barrens" at Ihe South. He was a free and 

 easy looking customer, and did not seem to understand our 

 inquiry, "Did anything ever grow on these barrens?" 



"There did once: cutoff now," he somewhat curtly re- 

 plied. 



In answer to further inquiries, I learned that cuttiug off 

 the oaks and pines of the few forests that were left consti- 

 tuted his principal business. I then said to him that a man 

 must own considerable of piue woods to he a rich man in 

 thatsectiou? lie replied, "You bet the more such land a 

 man owns the poorer he is." 



Finding my accidental friend growing communicative, 

 and a man of good sense, I drew much information of 

 value from him in relation to wood growing, as he termed 

 ii. lie wry readily coincided with my views of what was 

 evidently his duty, and eagerly asked* me to give him my 

 idea upon the same. I said to him what I to-day say to the 

 thousands of readers of FoRBST and Stkeam, Would it 

 not lie very coramendaolo lor every farmer in every State 

 in ibis Union, who has large tracts of lands, to begin now 

 and plant several acres every year with the seeds and young 

 trees' of the forest? You are well acquainted with your 

 locations, with their capabilities of production, and the 

 old pine barrens can be made to bear a beautiful growth of 

 the different kinds of forest trees. Suppose you select, for 

 experiment the quickly growing chesnuts, walnuts, pines, 

 or any other trees best suited to the locality. You will not 

 need to apply cultivation after the first two years, when 

 vour work begins not only to grow upon your hands, but 

 to interest you in spite of yourseir. Plant, if you can, 

 twenty acres the first, year, and ten the second, and so con- 

 tinue on planting every year some acres, and you will in 

 five years from vour first planting find that you have fenc- 

 ing rails that will be sufficient for all your wants, and which 

 will need cutting out to give, the others room to grow. 

 Now there is bo fancy about this; it is a sober, earnest fact. 

 Do you not perceive that as the years progress your woods 

 also increase in size and value, and you will be the first to 

 acknowledge that three years' euttiugs will pay all your 

 cost. 



Then, again, it is Ihe duty of every good husband and 

 father to look out for those he may chance to leave behind 

 him. Can he leave a better or more substantial legacy to 

 his sons than thousands of acres of large forests of oak, 

 walnut, pine, chestnut, etc. ? Just cast your eye forward 

 over thirty years, and you behold a rich and lasting inherit- 

 ance of many acres, "lifting their majestic heads, where 

 once you saw naked prairies or sedge fields, and doytru 

 not rejoice in this the labor of your hands? 



We urge upon all our readers who possess many or few 

 acres of worthless lands, to see to it that they do their duty 

 in this very simple matter. By this timely effort the grow- 

 ing scarcity of timber would be stopped, and our forests 

 would become once more the beautiful woodlands for 

 which, as it now is, no substitute can be found. 



Oiaipod Qtjii.l. 



-*.*- 



PONDS. 



l'Ttc.\, N. Y., September nth, 1KT1. 

 Editor Forest and Stoeam:— 



I tiave often been impressed with the injustice of designating many or 

 our inland wildwood waters by the. name of ponds. It arises, I suppose, 

 from the comparative diminutiveness of their proportions. In the lux- 

 uriance of lakes to tbe number of six or seven hundred, all of them beau- 

 tiful, grand, or lovely, which are the pride, and glory of our Empire Ktute, 

 we affect to despise the little ones, which, nevertheless, in their isola- 

 tion, if placed in other surroundings, or in States otherwise without 

 waters, would be regarded as attractive lakes. My first revulsion at the 

 name of pond (with which term, in my early years, f associated what was 

 litlleotherll.ai.il nee 1 I."!.- iota tfMob hoys would throw stones mid 

 sticks, anil whose inhubin.uts were cM< .". eel- and bull-frogs)— I say my 

 llrst revulsion at the same Ol pond occurred many years ag> 

 that, which hears the name of Koling-by, on the Tta.p.elle It 



nd 



set. in lofty 

 iitoried, and 



ished the 



before bruakfi . 



snoozes, and many large speckled beauties. And is title only a pond? 

 Hot large, I grant you, la the sense in will CD Knqueite, Champlain, or 

 In are large, Inn large enough for all practical intents and purposes of 

 admiration,' pleasure, or lishmg: for exercise, health, bathing, rowing, 

 hunting, camping, 4c, &c. For fuller accounts of it see Street's 

 "Woods and Waters." We know that many takes are, by Mason of 



and the consequence ifi that they pre( 

 ony, while many "ponds" surpass the 



though bearing an unequal and libclon 

 superior to their professions, while tn 

 re-impressed with the truth and jueti. 



name. They can stand it, being 

 ny lakes fall below them, i was 

 • of such observations during the 



Derwent Water, or Windermere Tl 

 scssed of those charms of inland, b 

 are peculiar to irregularity. The fis- 

 cally oval, and in effect, circular in si 

 arn acquainted, and I have visited in . 

 of my native State. It is set in a cot 



hii:,. 



regto 



of u 



By-ti 



this charming lake an extraordinarily beautiful specimen of white trout. 

 1 have caught similar one- el-e.ehere, but, not, in the Adirondack rogldn. 

 i tookeightlakctrout ill July fumi Blue Mountain waters, but not one 

 of them would compare for beaut.\ with that which the poin:t supplied, 

 and the white was as large at least as any of the blue-., t was authenti- 

 cally informed that a ten-pounder was taken in the third Siirgctir. .iliour 

 the 25th of .Inly last, mid conversed with the party by whom it was caught. 

 Will not that do for a pond'/ Wor.ld it not be quite respectable coming 

 from a lake? 

 Mv sole object In taking my pen was to say a good word for Ihe ponds 



of New York, and suggest that they are lakes well worthy of the atten- 

 tion of the sportsman and the lover of nature. Having done this, I make 

 my respectful bow, admitting that as my subject is moderate In dimen- 

 sion, my communication shonld also be. As with communications, so 

 with lakes; as with lakes, so' also with communications. They do not 

 depend for acceptableness upon their size or great dimensions; but other 

 things being equal, tbe shorter may be the more interesting, prepossess- 

 ing, and engaging. Amateur. 



Mtw York, September 19th, 1874. 

 Editor, Forest and Stream:— 



When auy lover of Forest and Stream (as I acknowledge myself) 

 discovers an article therein relating to a subject on which he imagines he 

 can give information, I deem it his bouuden duty to do so. Thorefofe, 

 hating read an article in your paper of September 17tb, entitled "Wild 

 Plums of Kansas," I do hereby certify that, to the best of my knowledge 

 and belief, I have on e.everal occasions partaken of those self same 

 plums, or plums similar to them in every respect. Three yearn ago this 

 month I found quantities of this fruit near the Elkhorn River, a few 

 miles from Fremont, Nebraska. They grew in the thickets BUrronnding 

 the many little ponds or springe near said river. 'Die trees, or bushes, 

 grow from six to eight, feel in height, and bear abundantly, the fruit, be- 

 ing perfectly round, of a beautiful light pinkish color, and when fully 

 ripe are very sweet and pleasant to the taste. I have aiso picked many a 

 basket, of wild plums on Sandy Hook, N. .T., between the fort and rail- 

 road dock. They are called there beach plums, but, as far as I am ahle to 

 judge, they are identical with the wild plum of the West, only smaller, 

 which is easily acounted for by tbe difference in climate and soil. Yours, 



Luxe Tntrr. 



%ht MenneL 



THE TENNESSEE FIELD TRIALS. 



We have already called the special attention of sports- 

 men in previous numbers of this journal to the approach- 

 ing field trials to be held under the auspices of the Tennes- 

 see State Spoilsmen's Association, and ' acknowledge with 

 pleasure the receipt of the following letter from one of its 

 officers:— 



Memphis, September 14th, 1874. 



: !•'■,. i; 



I STR 



Sear Sir: — We hope fur success. If energy and money will accom- 

 plish such an end success is ours. L'p to this writing everything looks 

 most favorable. The committee, or rather Secretary, has just received 

 two pups from Canada, entered for the bench show. We have sevcial 

 other dogs from different points, including New York and Lexington, 

 i£y. If our brother sportsmen will only meet us we will more than sat- 

 isfy them in every respect. The right, hand of fellowship will be ex- 

 tended to them all. To welcome them at every step, and treat them with 

 the true hospitably or tbe Southerner, will be our aim. The Held trial 

 grounds are adjoining tbe fair grounds, where we have the bench show. 

 The trial will be on quail. The grounds are stubble, corn fields and waste 

 lands. Tile grounds are noted for the quantity of birds that inhabit 

 them. The grounds are posted, and have been for years, and are care- 

 fully guarded night, and day. No dog from this or any other section will 

 be permitted to stick a nose In the grounds until October 8th, the iirst 

 day of the trial, so that no party from abroad wishing to enter a dog can 

 have thai :.s an excuse for hesitancy. The reason why I explain it is, 

 that, I am in receipt of a letter to-day from a gentleman wishing to enter 

 dogs, who asks the question whether dogs from this vicinity are allowed 

 to hunt over the Held trial grounds prior to field trial day. Every exer- 

 tion (that iim be made) shall be made to secure fair play, and fair .play 

 everybody shall have. Again, a person may enter as many dogs in each 

 class as he likes. We would be more than delighted to have you with ns 

 hi October during our show, etc. 



Permit me farther to Ray that your comments in your issue of the 10th 

 September, upon tin: Association's programme, would lead many sports- 

 men to believe that We Teimesseuns wish to abandon retrieving in setters 



trieving, and nine tenths of us would not buy or have a setter that did 



points for 

 .Iry 



letiievim 

 the dogs 

 time) is u 

 Moving, 

 than ten 



y agree with me I bat two hours (the allotted 

 try a dog thoroughly. To allow points for re- 

 to all entries, we conld not have allowed less 

 to each brace, which, if allowed, would take 

 through with thirty or forty- dogs. Will yon 

 I the error in your next number? 

 our kindness, I am yours truly, Doo. 



JUDGING ON THE SHOW BENCH.— No, 8, 



THE POINTER. 



Head should be moderately long, narrowing from the 

 skull; the skull not too prominent above the eyes, as this 

 gives a heavy appearance; rather deep in the lip, but not 

 any flaw, or very slight; nostrils open, with level jaw, 

 eyes moderately bold; ears thin, set in lo the head,' just 

 where the skull begins to recede at the sjdes of the head, 

 bringing flat on ihe cheek; throwing the ears back so as to 

 show Ihe insides has a bad appearance, and too often indi- 

 cates a cross: neck medium in proportion to head, and 

 body rather inclined to be long, but not much so, thicken- 

 ing from the head to the set in of the shoulders; no loose- 

 ness of the tin oat skin; shoulders narrow at the meeting 

 of the blade bones, with a great amount of muscle, long in 

 (lie blades, set slanting, with arm of the leg strong and 

 coming away straight, and elbow neither out nor in; the. 

 legs not great heavy honed, but with a great amount of 

 muscle; leg pressed straight to the foot, well rounded and 

 symmetrical, with foot well rounded, this is the fore legs 

 and feet; chest moderately deep, not over wide, but suffi- 

 ciently wide and deep to give plenty of breathing room; 

 back level, wide in loins, deeply ribbed, and with ribs car- 

 ried well back; hips wide and full of muscle, not straight 

 in the hock, but moderately bent; stifles full and well de- 

 veloped; the stern nearly ' slt'aiglit, going off tapering to 

 the point, set, in level with tbe back, carried straight, not 

 above the level Of back; symmetry and general appearance 

 racy, and much beauty ol form appears to the eye of a 

 real pointer brooder and fancier. The weights we con- 

 sider hesl for ditferent purposes are from lii'ty pounds to 

 about sixty-five pounds. fJO&t short and glossy, hut a deal 

 here depends on condition. 



point.* m jtroorsG. 



Head SB Feet in 



Neck 10 Loins u) 



Shoulders 16 Stifles. s 



!..'-• t|i|Stei'ii IB— 100 



THE EN.ILISH SETTER, 



Head long and somewhat narrow, with a fair distance 

 from the eye uyhc. end of the nose, which should not be 

 snipey or ant-eater like; skull u. little prominent; ears set 

 on low and rial,, pot thrown back; the least stop just above 

 or across the eyes; jaws level, with a little fulness of lip 

 just at the back of the month, aye large hul not prot.rud 



