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FOREST AND STREAM 
Devoted to Field am) Aquatic Sports, Practical Natural History, 
Fish Culture, the Protection op Game,Preservation op Forests, 
and the Inculcation in Men and Women of a healthy interest 
in Out door Recreation and Study : 
PUBLISHED BY 
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17 CHATHAM STREET, (CITY HALL SQUARE) NEW YORK, 
[Post Office Box 2832.] 
125 SOUTH THIRD STREET, PHILADELPHIA. 
COBB’S BUILDING, DEARBORN ST., CHICAGO. 
Terms, Five Dollars a Year, Strictly in Advance. 
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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 
Uallock’s “ Fishing Tourist, ’’ postage free. 
Advertising Kates. 
In regular advertising columns, nonpareil type, 12 lines to the inch, 25 
cents per line. Advertisements on outside page, 40 cents per line. Reading 
notices, 50 cents per line. Advertisements in double column 25 per cent, 
axtra. Where advertisements are inserted over 1 month, a discount of 
10 per cent, will he made; over three months, 20 per cent; over six 
aaonths, 30 per cent. 
NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 6,1874. 
To Correspondents. 
All communications whatever, whether relating to business or literary 
correspondence, must be 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 Names will not be published if 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 return rejected manuscripts. 
Secretaries of Clubs and Associations are urged to favor us with brief 
notes of their movements and transactions, as it is the aim of this paper 
to become a medium of useful and 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 
is beautiful in Nature. It will pander to no depraved tastes, nor pervert 
the legitimate sports of land and water to those base uses which always 
tend to make them unpopular with the virtuous and good. No advertise¬ 
ment or business notice of an immoral character will he received on any 
terms; 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 HALLOCK, Managing Editor. 
WILLIAM C. HARRIS, Business Manager. 
CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR THE CUR¬ 
RENT WEEK. 
Friday, August 7th.—Buffalo Park, Buffalo. N. Y.— Now York Yacht 
Club at Newport—Massillon Driving Park, Massillon, Ohio.—Open am¬ 
ateur and professional regatta at Oakland Beach, near Providence, R. 
I.—Princes Club Eleven with professionals, vs. Eighteen of America, at 
Princes Grounds, London, Eng. 
Saturday, August 8th.— Corinthian yacht, race for schooners, New¬ 
port, R. I.—New York Yacht Club at Newport—Harlem River Boat 
Club’s practice day—Athletic vs. Boston B. B. C., at Richmond Cricket 
Grounds, Eng. 
Monday, August 10th—Atlantic Yacht Club sail for New Bedford- 
New York Yacht Club cruise. 
Tuesday, August 11th,—Utica Park Association, Utica, N. Y.— Ro¬ 
chester Driving Park Association, Rochester, N. Y.—Pigeon Shooting 
'Tournament, Chicago, Ill.—Mystic Park, Boston, Mass. 
Wednesday, August 12th.— Athletic vs. Boston and Professional 
Nine—Utica Park Association, Utica, N. Y.—Rochester Driving Park 
Association, Rochester, N. Y.— Pigeon Shooting Tournament, Chicago, 
Hi.—Grand River and Spring Lake Rowing Association, Mich.—Mystic 
Park, Boston, Mass.—Match day, cricket clubs, Hoboken, foot Ninth 
street. 
Thursday, August 13th.—English Eleven vs. Eighteen, at cricket, at 
the Oval, Loudon, Eng.—Utica Park Association, Utica, N. Y.—Roches¬ 
ter Driving Park Association, Rochester, N. Y.—Pigeon Shooting Tour¬ 
nament, Chicago, III.—Queens county Yacht Club regatta—Grand River 
and Spring Lake Rowing Association, Mich.—Mystic Park, Boston. 
OUR CHICAGO OFFICE. 
I N order to establish a closer relationship with the sport. 
ing fraternity at the West, to whose earnest support the 
Forest and Stream owes a large portion of its success, 
we have within the past week established a branch office at 
Chicago. It is in Cobb’s Building, Dearborn street, where 
our friends will find our able representative, Mr. Ira G. 
True, and a corps of competent assistants. We have made 
this new movement because it became necessary to the 
proper and comfortable conduct of our growing business at 
the West, and not because we hope or expect to monopolize 
the whole of sporting journalism in that section. We feel 
assured that the West must at some day not distant have its 
own peculiar representative, but until some journal is found 
better able than Forest and Stream to fill the position, 
we are convinced that we shall not be regarded as inter¬ 
lopers. On the contrary, we shall be welcomed as a sort 
of medium to promote a better acquaintance and stronger 
good fellowship between the East and West, enabling each 
to better understand the other’s wants, characteristics, and 
good qualities. We are certain that the establishment of 
our office in Chicago will prove mutually advantageous, 
OUR ANNIVERSARY. 
T HIS present number concludes the second volume of 
Forest and Stream, and marks an important 
epoch in the existence of our paper, for we are now one 
year old. From the very outset our success has exceeded 
our most sanguine expectations. An army of friends in 
the United States, Canada, and England have rallied around 
us, and liberally supported us with their purses and their 
brains. The Forest and Stream is now taken in every 
State, Territory, and Province. Our advertising patronage 
requires no heralding; it can be seen and estimated for it¬ 
self. We can safely assert that few weekly papers, of 
much longer standing than our own, can show as large a 
number of advertisements, or a higher class of advertisers. 
And this success has accrued without any special effort on 
our part. Like Topsey, the paper has “growed itself.” 
In the most natural way the Forest and Stream has 
filled a void in American journalism, and in the same natu¬ 
ral way the better classes of our people have taken it into 
their confidence. Hundreds who have been in the habit of 
looking at sporting papers as inculcating doubtful morality, 
have become our subscribers, and even the ladies accept 
the Forest and Stream as a friend long needed, and 
worthy of the affection they bestow. 
The commercial community, with keen, sagacious, 
critical eye, perceived the value of the Forest and Stream 
as an advertising medium at the very start, and with scarcely 
any solicitation on our part, have compelled us to gradu¬ 
ally yield them additional space, and have crowded our 
pages throughout the most trying business period we have 
had for years. Born in a panic, we have worried through it, 
and survive. All newspaper men know that subscribers 
make advertisers, and that although the presence of the 
former cannot be appreciated by the general reader, the 
last cannot exist without the first, and in fact that the one 
is the corollary of the other. 
Six months ago, on the occasion of our entering on our 
second volume, we took the opportunity of thanking our 
many contributors for the valuable papers they had sent 
us. As we are about to enter on our third volume, we 
must repeat the same idea as was then expressed, that al¬ 
though the policy of a paper must emanate solely from 
those who direct it—if, so to speak, the canvas is to be 
stretched to just such limits, and only certain subjects are to 
be drawn upon it, it has been our contributors who have 
mainly painted the most glowing pictures, the finest scenes, 
and given those subtler touches which have made the 
Forest and Stream so popular. 
It is not wise, it is even rash, to make promises for the 
future. Of course there is nothing like success, but suc¬ 
cess which has not come in an accidental or haphazard way 
is always inspiriting. Our good fortune, earned by no 
small amount of patient toil, we believe to be an earnest of 
the future. As we are certain now that our second volume 
was better than our first, we have every reason to hope that 
our third volume will still more fully satisfy the numerous 
readers of the Forest and Stream. 
MODEL FIELD LITERATURE. 
N EWSPAPERS are everywhere representative of the 
people from whom they emanate, but nowhere do 
th^y so positively and intensely reflect the popular char¬ 
acteristics and material progress as in England and Ame¬ 
rica. In this country the superficial intelligence that is so 
widely diffused, is indicated by an enormous sum total of 
newspaper circulation hardly appreciable even by those 
familiar with newspapers. This circulation seems to fill 
every visible channal of aesthetic or commercial require¬ 
ment, and yet new channels of usefulness, constantly open¬ 
ing, are as constantly giving to the press increased scope 
and additional functions. America is young, vigorous, 
restless, earnest, active, far-reaching. Her newspapers are 
the representatives of daily progress rather than fixed fact, 
of development rather than ripeness, of quantity instead of 
quality. England, on the contrary, is one of those countries 
which are said to be finished, and her few representative 
journals therefore simply reflect the light and shade of a 
character fully fixed and established, and to which time 
adds only weight and ponderosity. Through them the 
minutest details of her inner life find constant expression, 
and it is marvellous with what accuracy they are del¬ 
ineated. 
One cannot help indulging these thoughts when conning 
over the advertising columns of any of them, and of none 
so much as the London Field, the paper most nearly repre¬ 
sentative of the gentlemen of England. This journal is de¬ 
voted entirely to recreation and pastime, and to the study 
of those natural objects which contribute to create them. 
It therefore depicts the aesthetic or sunny side of life. And 
yet the most cynic philosopher who scans its pages cannot 
fail to perceive how intimately interwoven with all that is 
practical, or valuable, or dutiful, in existence, are these 
apparently trivial and superfluous objects. They enter into 
the very bone and essence of human life. There is scarcely 
a trait or a trade that is not represented here, scarcely an 
article of virtu or use, or any means or source of recrea¬ 
tion, or any of the pertainings or belongings of a gentle¬ 
man’s establishment, or a requisite of the better classes of 
people, that is not included among the catalogue of objects 
here wanted or offered for sale. An enumeration would be 
tedious. And all are logically or directly connected and 
associated with health, wealth, independence, happiness, 
morality, and religion ! It is evident that no mean esti¬ 
mate need be placed upon a truly legitimate sportsman’s 
paper which discourages and discards all impurities of 
thought and conduct, and inculcates in its readers a love 
for that only which is rational and elevating. 
An analysis of the literary or reading contents of the 
Field alike challenges description, and compels the like 
wholesome and satisfying conclusions. There is not a nook 
or cranny of all England affording facilities for fishing, 
that is not represented. Its racing summary is perfect and 
chaste. No yacht flecks the English waters, but is ac¬ 
counted for here. Cricket, croquet, archery, golf, boat 
races, athletic exercises and general pastimes, are fully re¬ 
corded. There is a veterinary department absolutely 
thorough in its character. No high mettled racer is born, 
or runs, or is sold, but that the Field and its readers know 
of it. Dogs, their kinds, their traits and characteristics are 
treated by the most intelligent of exponents. The shooting 
of the day, or the prospects for game are exhaustively dis¬ 
cussed. What is wonderful, amid this mass of matter, is 
the attention paid to natural history. So absolutely correct 
and novel is this particular department, that special scien¬ 
tific journals, written for savants, quote from the Field on 
sujects ornithological and ictlij ological. In the treatment 
of all these topics, a straightforward method, an absence of 
gush and bluff, a clearness and precision, gives information 
and instruction to innumerable readers in all parts of the 
world where English is spoken. Correspondents from 
Asia, Africa, from all habitable points of the Globe, write 
for it. 
Mechanically, the London Field is a marvel. In size it 
is the largest known journal in the world. We have a 
copy of it spread out before us on the floor, which almost 
carpets the office. It comprises 56 pages of reading matter 
in small type, each page measuring 12x18 inches. Its dimen¬ 
sions are four feet by ten and a half, and its superficial area, 
reckoning both sides, is eighty-four feet. Twenty-eight 
and one half of its pages are devoted to advertisements, 
several of which are a column in length. W e have taken 
the trouble to count them; the total for the one issue 
(weekly) is 1,887 I If all the type used were set in a straight 
line, it would reach almost two miles, there being some¬ 
thing over 1,189,440 “ems” in it. It would take a rapid 
compositor two hundred days to set the type by himself. 
There is no publication, (excepting Land and Water,) in 
any part of the globe that exactly corresponds to the Lon¬ 
don Field, nor do we know that there ever will be. In 
America our sporting journals are dwarfed by the com¬ 
parison. Forest and Stream has made the Field its 
model, and emulous of a like excellence and repute, it may 
after a half century of arduous toil aspire to the same stan¬ 
dard which the Field has reached after many years. But 
the way is difficult. We have upon our table beside us a 
dingy copy of the “Sporting Magazine or Monthly Cal¬ 
endar,” printed in London in 1802—a really creditable 
effort, but scarcely equal to Forest and Stream, we 
think. It has an illustrated title, representing a hunter 
going full tilt at a five-barred gate, with a fox-hound streak¬ 
ing it after him. Among its varied contents we note an 
article on “The Distinguishing Signs of Madness in Dogs,” 
by Mr. Meynell, (Meynel?) which we have more than once 
had a mind to reproduce in our columns, so absolutely 
thorough and perfect is it, and showing how little more we 
know about the disease to-day than we did seventy-five 
years ago. One very curious article is on Bull Baiting, re¬ 
markable from the arguments used by Wilberforce and 
Sheridan in the House of Commons, to prohibit hul 1 baiting 
and bull running. A balloon excursion occupies some 
twelve pages, the doughty pugilists, Belcher and Joe Ward, 
take up two pages, sporting intelligence a page or so, and 
the Poetry, or what in the peculiar stilted phraseology of 
the period is caL d “The High Court of Diana,” drivels 
along through four pages more. As an expression of the 
tastes of the period, it forms an interesting study, and no 
doubt was delectable reading for our grand sires. The 
long advance made in sporting literature since then is illus¬ 
trated in the London Field of to-day. Although we are 
fully aware of the fondness which Englishmen have for 
field sports, we cannot but marvel that a country barely as 
large as one of our own States, (notwithstanding its civ¬ 
ilization dates back a thousand years,) should ever produce 
such a remarkable weekly journal. We cannot but ac¬ 
knowledge the great influences for good which such papers 
have exerted in the United States. One thing they have 
certainly taught us, and that is, that a journal devoted to 
the peculiar topics here treated of, and trusting for the sup¬ 
port and confidence of any community, must be ‘written and 
prepared by gentlemen, if it is expected that gentlemen will 
read it. 
THE PINNATED GROUSE IN ENGLAND. 
W E are sorry to state that we have just received infor¬ 
mation from Sandringham that the eggs sent to the 
Prince of Wales by Mr. Richard Valentine have not done 
well, a single bird at last accounts only having been reared. 
We copy from the letter of the gentleman who kindly sends 
us the facts;— 
“Upon their arrival the eggs were placed under three of 
the best hens to be found. After the lapse of a week it 
was discovered that all the eggs, with the exception of 
three, were addled and useless, and these were hatched 
about twenty-eight days from date of being placed under 
the hen in a very weak state, but two of them more so than 
the other, which two have since died. The survivor would 
in all probability have shared the same fate had it not been 
discovered that it required a great deal of moisture, and 
since then the coop has been watered several times during 
the day, and it is now growing into a strong bird. When 
they arrived they were packed in a soft of eha#. . . - 
