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FOREST AND STREAM 
A WEEKLY JOURNAL, 
Dbtotet) to Field and Aquatic Sports, PpacticadNaturai. History, 
Pish Culture, the Protection op Game,Preservation op Forests, 
AND THE INCI'I.CATION IN MEN AND WOMEN OP A HEALTHY INTEREST 
is Odt-door Bbcreation and Study : 
PUBLISHED BP 
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Advertising Rates. 
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notices, 50 cents per line. Where advertisements are inserted over 1 
month, a discount of 10 per cent, will he made; over three months, 20 
per cent.; over six months, 30 per cent. 
NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1876. 
To Correspondents. 
All communications whatever, whether relating to easiness or literary 
correspondence, must he addressed to The Forest and Stream Pub¬ 
lishing Company. Personal or private letters of course excepted. 
All -communications intended for publication must be accompanied with 
real name, as a guaranty of good faith. Names will not be published if 
objection be made. No anonymous contributions will be regarded. 
Articles relating to any topic within the scope of this paper are solicited. 
We cannot promise to retnrn rejected manuscripts. 
Secretaries of Clubs and Associations are urged to favor ns with brief 
notes of their movements and transactions, as it is the aim of this paper 
to become a medium of useful aud reliable information between gentle¬ 
men sportsmen from one end of the country to the other; and they will 
find our columns a desirable medium for advertising announcements. 
The Publishers of Forest and Stream aim to merit and secure the 
patronage and countenance of that portion of the community whose re¬ 
fined intelligence enables them to properly appreciate and enjoy all that 
s beautiful in Nature. It will pander to no depraved tastes, nor pervert 
the legitimate Bports of land and water to those base uses which always 
tend to make them nnpopnlar with the virtuous and good. No advertise¬ 
ment or business notice of an immoral character will he received on any 
orms; and nothing will be admitted to any department of the paper that 
may not be read with propriety in the home circle. 
We cannot be responsible for the dereliction of the mail service, if 
money remitted to us is lost. 
Advertisements should be sent in by Saturday of each week, if possible. 
CHARLES IIALLOC'K, Editor. 
WILLIAM C. HARRIS, Business Manager. 
CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR THE COM¬ 
ING WEEK. 
Thursday, April 27th.—Bench Show of Dogs, Springfield, Msbs. 
Base Ball: Louisville vs. Chicago, at Louisville; Hartford vb. Brooklyn, 
at Brooklyn; Boston vs New Haven, at Providence. 
Friday, April 28tb.—Rifle: Spring meeting Yonkers Rifle Association, 
at Yonkers. Base Ball: Boston vs. New Haven, at Fall River. 
Saturday, April 29th.— Rifle: Yonkers Rifle Association, at Yonkers. 
Base Ball: Chicago vs. Cincinnati, at Cincinnati; St. Louis vs. Louis¬ 
ville, at Louisville. 
Tuesday, May 2d.—Racing: Nashville, Tenn. Trotting: Washing¬ 
ton, D, Q. 
“Wednesday, May 3d.—Racing: Nashville, Tenn. Trotting: Wash- 
*ngton, D. C'. Base Ball: St. Louis vs. Louisville, at Louisville. 
Our Centennial Headquarters. — Friends of our 
paper visiting Philadelphia duriug ihe Centennial will find 
a warm welcome at the office which we have fitted up for 
their reception and entertainment at No. 123 South Third 
street. It will be under Ihe special charge of our Mr. 
Harris, assisted by M- M. Barker, Esq , wbo is already 
well known to our Western friends. The office is fitted 
With easy chairs, writing materials, files of papers, etc., 
and we place it aud its facilities freely at the disposal of our 
readers. When tired oF sight-seeing drop into the Forest 
and Stream office and Test and read the papers. 
The Brazilian Emperor.— Dorn Pedro is now enjoy¬ 
ing the sights and climate of the Pacific Slopo. Long 
journeys for crowned heads are coming into vogue, but 
probably our present visitor has taken a ioDger trip by 
rail than has ever fallen to the lot of any other potentate 
He chose ihe Erie Railway for the first stage of his jour¬ 
ney, and has enjoyed the comforts of a palace even while 
in motion. _ _ _ 
Brook Trout. —We aro glad to see that E, Sherman 
Pease’s two pictures of trout were sold from the walls of 
tlfe Academy of Design, (lato wafer-color exhibition,) at 
the good price of §00 for the pair. Thuy were in water- 
color, and found special favor with artists who saw them. 
There is a trout picture, in Oil, in the present exhibition, 
thal some of our picture-buying readers may be glad to 
look at. 
FOREST AND STREAM AT THE CEN¬ 
TENNIAL. 
THE “HUNTER’S CAMP.” 
I N view of Ihe near approach of the opening of the Cen¬ 
tennial Exhibition at Philadelphia, it may be well to 
state wliat this journal (Forest and Stream,) lias been 
doing within Ihe past year to add to the attractions of the 
show. 
It was an early conception of ours lo bring together at. 
Philadelphia a collection of all the apparatus and imple¬ 
ments used by sportsmen, by land and water, or that 
might legitimately fall within the province of sport, and 
also to illustrate the habits aud life of sportsmen and the 
creatures they pursue, by an exhibition of a geuuine 
hunters camp and appliances; methods of trapping, fishing 
-and shooting; specimens of wigwams, canoes, tents, etc. 
Accordingly in February, 1875, we intimated our purpose 
lo the Exhibition Directory, and arranged for an inner 
space of 1,200 feet in the main building, where guns, tackle 
and the like might be on view, and for an outside space on 
the grounds where the camp might be located. Six months 
afterwards, learning that Professor Baird was engaged in a 
kindred project, and aware of the importance of a unity of 
action, and the facilities he possessed for collecting, we ar¬ 
ranged with him to incorporate our display of sportmens 
goods and implements with his, for what is known as the 
Government Exhibition. Evei since then we have worked 
in behalf of the joint and consolidated enterprise, the 
supervision and labor of collecting the materials of certain 
departments having been assigned to us. 
Wc are pleased to know tiiat the collection will possess 
an absorbing interest to all persons fond of field sports, na¬ 
tural history and out-door pastimes. 
But wbat we aim more particularly to impress upon the 
public is the fact that the most unique and original part 
and feature of what was intended should comprise the 
Forest and Stream exhibition, namely, the '■ Hunter's 
Camp," has not and never had any touch, foundation or 
handiwork other than our own, and it Stands to-day in all 
its primitive grotesqueness as one of the most attractive 
objects on the Exhibition grounds. It is located in a deep 
ravine near the Horticultural Hall, which overlooks it, and 
only a few rods from the grand music stand. It is but five 
minutes walk from the principal buildings. Its central 
object is the log-cabin built in hunter fashion, standing 
near a natural mountain stream that tumbles over rock3, 
shaded by a grove that will make the place delightfully 
cool in summer. A genuine trapper, in full panoply of 
beads and buck-skin, is in attendance, and some one of the 
backwoods fraternity, either Pale-face or Red-man, will 
always be found on hand throughout the season. As com¬ 
pleted, the picture shows venison aud other game hung up 
near by, with camp equipage and cooking utensils at hand, 
the blue smoke of a camp fire-rising; canoes partly drawn 
on shore from a pool of still water made by an eddy of the 
stream, and other features which Adirondack visitors will 
recognize at once, aud some, perhaps, from which they can 
gather instruction. 
The locality of this “ Hunter’s Camp” will bo indicated 
by fingerboards lettered “ Forest and Stream Gamp," which 
the Directory have kindly given us permission to erect, aud 
we cannot express our thanks loo warmly toward Mr. 
Gosliorn, the Director Geneial; Mr. Schwarzman, the 
Chief-Engineer, and Mr. Hamili, Secretary, for the special 
efforts they have made to promote our efforts and make the 
exhibition attractive and a success. 
Having said this much, we may be pardoned for referring 
to the following paragraph whicli has been printed in the 
Oswego Times, and copied freely;— 
“Prof. Bail’d, of the Smithsonian Institute, at Washington, 
has written a letter to Mr. John A. Nicliois, of Syracuse, 
inviting him to take charge of the Sponsmea’s Camp at the 
Centennial Exhibition, The camp will consist of a log 
cabin, tents, canoes and all the apparatus necessary for 
complete outfit of a hunter's eneampment. The appoint¬ 
ment is an excellent one, and we know of no one so well 
qualified to fill the position as Captain Nichols.” 
The above is altogether a misconception—Captain 
Nichols has kindly placed his hunting and fishing outfit at 
the disposal of Forest and Stream, and we propose to 
place it in the Sporlmen’s Outfit Department in the Govern¬ 
ment buildiug, which department, as we have said, was 
placed under our special charge by Professor Baird of the 
Smithsonian Institute, There will lie but one " Hunter’s 
Camp” upon the Centennial grounds, and tiiat one is solely 
the idea and properly of Forest and Stream. We are in 
receipt of tlie following letter from Mi’. Nichols, which 
speaks for itself:— 
r Syracuse, N. Y., April 22,1876. 
Gentlemen: — 
Tile paragraph published in various papers, annonnoing that Prof. 
Baud has tendered me the charge of the “Hunters Camp" at the Centen¬ 
nial, is a mistake. I have had no correspondence with Prof. Bnird, 
and have no connection with the "Hnntcra Camp,’’ which yon so happily 
conceived, and which I found on a recent visit to .Philadelphia nearly 
completed, and so admirably repiesentative oflife in the back-woods. 
The cullection I promised you or hunting aud flshiug goods, is now be¬ 
ing packed and will he forwarded at an early dute. 
Yours very truly, John A. Nichols. 
Our contemporaries, particularly those iu the northern 
part of this State, will please make a note of the above, 
-- -*♦<--- 
—Strawberries are selling at twenty-five cents a quart, iu 
St. Augustine, Fla. 
—A moose six l'eet high is on exhibition at Halifax, 
Nova Scotia, It is to go to the Centennial, 
COACHING. 
A T least one of the pastimes peculiar to England,’ 
and which might be termed “amateur couching,’)i 
has been successfully introduced into this country, as was 
made amply manifest by the splendid display of the Coach¬ 
ing Club on Saturday last. In fact, it might almost bo 
called a triumphal procession so great was the exeitemeafl 
and anxiety to witness the turn out. One not knowing the 
cause would have imagined that a procession was in order,, 
or that the “Seventh” were having a parade, from tho ap¬ 
pearance of Fifth avenue. Those stately mansions, whose 
closed shutters invariably suggest the idea that the family 
are liviDg in the back parlor, were thrown open and dis¬ 
played some signs of being inhabited. Six four-in-hand 
teams started from Madison square shortly after four 
o’clock and proceeded up Fifth avenue and through Cen¬ 
tral Park as fur as Stetson’s, where lliey turned and re¬ 
traced their steps, following the avenue as far as Wash¬ 
ington square; thence to Madison square again, where they 
disbanded. 
When the start was made, Mr. William Jay led with his 
English coach, formerly of the Dorking Road, drawn by 
two bays, a browa and a chestnut horse. Next came Mr, 
Frederic Bronson’s drag drawn by four spunking bays, 
Mr. Dcluncey Kane, who will soon begin running a pub™ 
coach from the Brunswick notel to New Rochelle, fol 
lowed next with what he calls his “city team”—the four 
horses whicli will draw the public coach—a black, a bey, * 
brown, and a chestnut. Mr. James Gordon Bennett fol¬ 
lowed, driving four fine chestnuts; Mr. Leonard Jeroma 
with four bays, and Mr. William P. Douglass With font 
bays. A number of guests, both ladies and gentlemen, 
were on the tops of the coaches, and (lie leaders of fashion 
on the box seats divided the admiration of the crowd with 
the leaders on the teams. Hoi us were conspicuous by iheir 
absence, and we were glad to notice tlie omission of this 
snobbish accessory. Before the next display more fine 
teams will be added to the club, and coachiug will have 
become firmly established. For those who can afford ;igj 
there can be no more popular or healthy amusement, 
necessitates out of door exercise, and inculcates self re* 
liance and readiness. By tho by, Mr. Benueit’s twenffl. 
Polo ponies have arrived from Texas in charge of two 
Mexicans. They were not in first-rate condition, (the po¬ 
nies we mean, we are not informed as to the Mr,xica)ws)j 
but have been turned out lo pasture, and will soon bel 
ready for the first lessons. 
HORSE SHOES AND SHOEING. 
O N an average horses require shoeing once a month. 
The length of time a Bhoe will wear depends muclf 
on the kind of service a horse is doing, and on the kind 
of road he is daily traveling. A team horse in heavy 
draught- does uot wear out as many shoes as one used in 1 
hack; quick motion grinds shoeB down more rapidly than 
slow use. Some pavement is harder on shoes than an or¬ 
dinary road, while the friction of a gravelly road wears 
them away rapidly. Wooden pavement is but a little saviroi 
to'tlie wear aud fear of shoes, for the grit and dust which- 
become impacted in the interstices of the wooden block 
grinds away shoes like the friction of an emory wheel. » 
The hind shoes w r ear out first, and there is more slraif 
and friction bn them Ilian, on the forward shoes. It is Jill 
possible and improper for a horse to wear shoes more tlnir 
six weeks, for the growth of the foot shortens the shoe,'a: 
well as changes the shape otherwise. The neglect Wil 
cause the shoo to encroach upon the soft textures of th(i 
foot and produce lameness. 
The greatest amount of custom to the blacksmith com« 
from the teamsters and expressmen and livery men. Omni 
bus and Tailroad companies have their own forges and <i( 
their own shoeing. 
The process of making a horseshoe is familiar to evert 
school boy, who has often lingered at tlie smithy door ant 
listened to the wheezing of the asthmatic bellows, am 
when the foot is paired wondered thal it did not bleed 
Again, ho Iibb seen the strong-armed workman pluck tin 
piece of glowing metal from the bright fire, and with tin 
hammer give it repeated blows, and give it shape by cud 
iug it over tbe anvil point. Healing again and again, lb 
iron he pounds maliciously causing the hissing sparkfl-J 
fly in all directions, until at length a shoe is formed com 
plet-e. 
This tedious process is superceded by machinery, am 
now like a doughnut a shoe is cut out of a sheet of sleej 
shaped, creased and punched precisely as if done by hand 
More shoes can be made by machinery in one day iliand 
blacksmith can make by a forge in a week, and, too 
equally as good in all respects. 
The matter of horseshoeing is of great interest to owi 
ers of horse flesh, for every one has ah idea how Ihe sin 
shouid be shaped and fitted to enable the beast to travel ti 
his notion. If be overreaches, interferes, or stumbles, th< 
blacksmith is held responsible. It is true a skillful me 
chanic can do much to remedy these evils. There are bu 
a few practical mechanics who have sufficiently sludie 
the foot of the horse. It is not enough to know tho.® 
atomy of the foot, and where to insert a nail not to eai)i 
pain, but the fool should be studied in Ihe slate of uatu 
before tbe mechanism of man. has by artificial appliaqf 
distorted it. Tlie shape of Ihe boot of the wild horse,i 
of one who has ’never been shoed, should bo taken as 
model. Tbe foot is then properly balanced, neither jj 
long nor too broad, but it has adjusted itself to aatl 
