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FOREST AND STREAM. 



FOREST AND STREAM, 



A WEEKLY JOURNAL. 



Devoted to Field and Aquatic Sports, Practical 

 Natural Histort, Fish Culture, the Protec- 

 tion of Game, Preservation op Forests, and the 

 Inculcation in Men and Women op a Healthy 

 Interest in Out-Door Recreation and Study: 



PUBLISHED BY 



Forest and Stream Publishing Co., 



103 FULTON STREET, NEW YORK. 

 Terms, Five Dollars A Year, Strictly in Advance. 



A discount of twenty per cent, for five copies and 

 upwards. Any person sending us two subscriptions 

 and Ten Dollars will receive a copy of Hallock's 

 " Fishing Tourist," postage free. 



Advertising Rates. 



In regular advertising columns, nonpareil type, 12 

 lines to the inch, 25 cents per line. Advertisments on 

 outside page, 40 cents per line. Reading notices 50 

 cents per line. Advertisements in double column 25 

 per cent, extra. Where advertisements are inserted 

 over one month, a discount of 10 per cent, will be 

 made; over three months, 20 per cent.; over six 

 months, 30per cent. 



The object of this journal will be to studiously pro- 

 mote a healthful interest in outdoor recreation, and to 

 cultivate a refined taste for natural objects. We es- 

 pecially desire . to make the Forest and Stream the 

 recognised medium of communication between ama- 

 teurs and professional sportsmen. All of us have 

 something to impart, which, if made available to each 

 other, will in time render us proficient in all those 

 several branches of physical culture which are absolute- 

 ly essential to our manhood and well-being, both as in- 

 dividual men and as a nation. A practical knowledge 

 of natural history must of necessity underlie all at- 

 tainments which combine to make a thorough sports- 

 man. It is not sufficient that a man should be able 

 to knock over his birds dexterously right and left, or 

 cast an inimitable fly. He must learn by study and 

 experience the haunts and habits of the game or fish 

 he seeks. If he depend altogether upon his dog's 

 nose, or upon his henchmen, he will some day have 

 to retire from the field in mortification and dis- 

 grace. Therefore it is that we shall study to give 

 practical instruction in the most attractive depart- 

 ments of natural history. We shall not forget the 

 technicalities of the craft either, but take pleasure in 

 designating the best localities for hunting and fishing, 

 outfits, implements, remedies, routes, distances, breeds 

 of dogs, &c. Each number will contain a paper de. 

 scriptive of a particular animal,- bird, or fish, with some 

 instruction as to its habits, haunts and mode of cap- 

 ture, and the period when it is in season. We have 

 arranged to receive regular weekly reports of the fish- 

 ing and shooting in various parts of the country. 



Yachting and boating will be encouraged, and yacht 

 news be made an especial feature of the paper. A 

 reasonable space will be given to athletic sports and 

 those out-door games in which ladies can participate. 

 In a word, every description of game that is in vogue 

 among respectable people, and of value as a health, 

 giving agent or recreative amusement, will be consid- 

 ered and its practice encouraged. Nothing that de- 

 moralizes or brutalizes, nothing that is regarded as 

 " sport" by that low order of beings who, in their in- 

 stincts are but a grade higher than the creatures they 

 train to amuse them, will find favor in these columns. 



To horse news we shall devote some space, giving a 

 record of leading races and meetings and current 

 events, but we shall not make it a feature of this jour- 

 nal. We leave this department to others, much more 

 competent than ourselves, who are recognised through- 

 out the country as exponents of the turf, and as au- 

 thority in stock, pedigree and kind. We yield to no 

 one, however, in our love and appreciation of the horse 

 and his estimable qualities. The noblest of all ani. 

 mats, and the companion alike of men of high and 

 low degree, he has never become contaminated by the 

 moral atmosphere by which he is often surrounded, or 

 degraded below the high rank to which his attributes 

 entitle and assign him. 



To the forest, lawn and garden we assign full place. 

 For the preservation of our rapidly diminishing for 

 ests we shall continually do battle. Our great inter- 

 ests are in jeopardy — even our supply of drinking wa- 

 ter is threatened, from the depletion of our timber- 

 lands by fire and axe. It is but proper to state here 

 that the gentleman in charge of this department is 

 the well-known " Olipod Quill," who was connected 

 with the Agriculturist newspaper from the start, and a 

 co-laborer with the lamented Downing for many years. 

 Much valuable information will be found in this de- 

 partment. 



Our military department is intended to comprise 

 merely a weekly summary of news for officers and 

 soldiers upon the frontier— such news as the casta- 

 ways would enjoy to receive in a " letter from home;" 

 and we trust that many of them will be inclined to 

 Bend us in return some account of their hairbreadth 

 experiences among the Indians, the buffaloes, the griz- 

 zlies and the antelopes. We of the East are not 

 thoroughly familiar with the varied species of game 

 in the far Northwest, and would like to receive full 

 information especially of the numerous Oervus family 

 and of the Rocky Mountain sheep. This departemnt 

 is under the charge of a distinguished army officer. 



Our dramatic and art column will be prepared by 

 Colonel T. B. Thorpe, and must at once become popu- 

 lar with all our readers who are interested in these 

 matters. We shall occupy an independent position, 

 and throw our afforts in behalf of competent reform. 

 We shall perhaps even clamor for it. 



Our columns will always contain the cream of the 

 latest foreign sporting news. 



In a word, we are prepared to print a live paper and 

 a useful one. We shall not be parsimonious in secur- 

 ing the best material for its columns. We are con- 

 vinced that there is a standard of eminence and useful- 

 ness not yet fully attainded by any sporting journals 

 in this country. To this we aspire. It will be our am- 

 bition to excel; and we have relinquished a life of ease 

 and semi-indolence to take charge of the enterprise. 

 This not of our own free choice, but at the solicitation 

 of many hundreds of friends and strangers. We are 

 ably assisted in our labors by a corps of valuable as- 

 sociates — men of age and experience, all of whom, with 

 a single exception, have been identified with leading 

 journals for years. 



Mr. Simeon A. Atkinson, connected with the 

 Georgia press for over twenty years, has charge of the 

 buaiuess affairs of the Company. 



Charles Hallook, Managing Editor. 



HUMORS OF SPORTING LIFE 



1.— Near sighted man goes fishing. 2.— Gives a glorious cast, 8.— Catches something the very first time, 4.— And goes home. 



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BRADFORD & ANTHONY, 



BOSTON, 



importers, Manufacturers and Dealers in 



Fishing Tackle, 



Have the best facilities for the Manufacture of 



FISHING RODS, ARTIFICIAL FLIES, WATER- 

 PROOF LINES. 



and their connections abroad enable them to supply 

 all Foreign Fishing Tackle to the best advantage. In 

 the Fall of 1873 will return to their store, (rebuilt since 

 the Fire,) at 



178 Washington Street. 



Orders by mail promptly answered. 



Established 1837. 



J. B. Crook & Co., 



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Importers and Manufacturers of 



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SO Fiilton St., N. Y. 







Green Hart, Split Bamboo, Log Wood, Fly 

 and Salmon Rods, a specialty 



N. Y. State Sportsmen's 



ASSOCIATION. 



Report of Committee on Stan- 

 dard for Shot. 



FIRE 



xtinguishes. 



" Absolutely the best protection against fire." Send 

 for "Its Record." 



F. W. FAR WELL, Secretary, 



407 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. 



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 structors, 11 Departments, 120 Classical 

 Pupils, large Gymnasium and Drill- 

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 Departments. Term, opens 

 September 8, 1873. 



Rev. ALZONO FLACK, A. M., President. 



CLAVERACK, N. Y., 



The recent test of Fire-Proof Safes 

 by the English Government proved 

 the superiority of Alum Filling. No 

 other Safes filled with 



Alum and Plaster-of-Paris. 



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A SPECIALTY. 



Your Committee have the following report to make 

 on the adoption by shot manufacturers and sportsmen 

 of a uniform 'AMERICAN STANDARD" of Drop 

 Shot. 



We have corresponded with all the manufacturers 

 in the country, and most of them express a willingness 

 to conform to the standard which shall be promulgated 

 by your Convention. 



All manufacturers will have eventually to conform, 

 when sportsmen require that their shot shall compare 

 with the standard of excellence which your Committee 

 has fixed. 



Upon the most critical examination, your Committee 

 have decided to adopt as the "AMERICAN STAN- 

 DARD," the scale presented to us by Messrs. THOS. 

 OTIS LE ROY & CO., of New York,as follows: (Here 

 is given the scale, which can be had, on application, 

 from Messrs. Thos. Otis Le Roy & Co., New York.) 

 The number of pellets as given in the standard, is the 

 correct number of perfect shot which will be produced 

 by the given scale of each size. 



R. NEWELL, Chairman. 

 N. M. SMITH, 

 F. G. SKINNER. 



I hereby certify that the foregoing is an extract from 

 the minutes of the meeting of the New York Sports- 

 men's Aseociaiton of June 11, 1873. 



JNO. B. SAGE, Secretary. 



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UTICA, NEW YORK. 



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Toronto, Canada. 



SHEARS & SON, Proprietors. 



This house is a favorite resort for Gentlemen Sports- 

 men, from all parts of the United States and Canada. 



piHEAP PLEASURE EXCURSIONS TO 



Lake Superior, 



Bt Collingwood and Lake Superior Line. 



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The Finest Line of Steamers on Canadian Watm. 



During the month of August, cheap excursion tickets 

 will he issued by this line, good for any of its steamers 

 either for the whole trip, or for any part of it, if passen- 

 gers prefer to lay over at any point of the route. 



The Captains haA'e been instructed to take all the in- 

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 at points of interest to allow time to the excursionists 

 to land or to enjoy the sport of fishing. 



Spacious private parlors can be secured on each 

 steamer for family parties. The tables are replete with 

 every delicacy of the season. 



Leave Collingwood everv Tuesday and Friday at 4.dU 

 P. M. on arrival of "Steamboat Express Train," con- 

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The cheapest, coolest and most delightful summer 

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