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FOREST AND STREAM. 



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PURITAN'S CUPS.-The Goelet Cup, won by Puritan in 1885, 

 has been presented to Hie Eastern Y. C, tb be hold in trust and to 

 be awarded each year to the yacht of the Eastern Y. C. making 

 the best record on corrected time in the annual regatta. The cup 

 presented by the N. Y. Y. C. in 1885, has also been presented to the 

 E. Y. C, to hold in trust. 



ALVA.— Mr. W. K. Vanderbilt's new steam yacht Alva arrived 

 at New York on Feb. 7 after a very successful passage from her 

 builders' yard at Wilmington. She left there on Saturdav after- 

 noon with her owner and his wife, accompanied by Messrs. D. M. 

 Haight and J. F. Tarns, and after adjusting her compasses came 

 along easily. She will fit out at once for a cruise to the West 

 Indies. 



YACHTING NOTES. -Ariel, steam yacht, has been sold to go to 

 Florida ...Lurline, steam yacbt, has been out on the screw dock, 

 prior to her departure on a Southern cruise. 



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FIXTURES. 



March. 



Ocean Race, Start. 



June. 



N. Y., Annual, N. Y. 



July. 



Beverly, Open, Mon. Beach. 18-31. Interlakc, Put-in-Bay. 

 Beverly,Cham., Mon.TSeach. 23. Beverly, Cham,, Nahant. 

 Beverly, Cham., Marblehead. 30. Beverly, Cham., Mon. Beach. 

 Beverly, Sweep, Mon. Beach. 



August. 



Beverly, Cham., SwampsCOtt; 20. Beverly, Open, Marblehead. 

 Beverly, Cham., Mon. Beach. 27. Beverly, Open, Mon. Beach. 



September. 

 Beverly, Sweep., Mon. Beach. 



Thousands are born with a tendency to consumption. Such 

 persons, if they value life, will not permit a cough or cold to be- 

 come a fixture in the lungs and chest. The best known reined v 

 for either is Hale's Honey ef Horehound and Tar. Pike's Tooth- 

 ache Drops cure in one minute.— A dv. 



ItSF" No Notice Taken of Anonymous Correspondents. 



E. A. W., Boston, Mass.— You can get the cats of Reiche Bros. 



M., Ottawa.— The address is S. Moreton Thomas, Cilgwin, Llan- 

 gadock, South Wales. 



G. F. D., Pennsylvania.— The Pennsylvania law was printed in 

 our issue of Oct. 21, 1886. 



I. L. G., Bay Ridge.— Guns are usually tested at a 30in. circle, 

 40yds. By variation of powder and shot yon can determine best 

 charge. 



Chicago Campers, Chicago. HI.— Write to Geo. R. Merrell, New 

 Boston, HI. He will give you hints, and is moreover a steamboat 

 man. 



Blue, Stoneham, Mass.— The book you quote gives the wrong 

 pedigree. Blue Dan is by Dash III. and out of Opal (Rake- 

 Fanny). 



V. F.. New Orleans— The size must be determined by the choke; 

 or more accurately, use only such charge as will pass through the 

 choke without too great compression. 



A. M., Allentown, Pa.— I wish you would give me the size and 

 color of the eyes of the snowy owl. Ans. Write toG. Wallace, No. 

 10 NorthWilliam street. New York, for snowy owl's eyes. 



F. C. M.— Put a wad in from muzzle clown to point of constric- 

 tion by the choke. Then chamber the shot on the wad, and having 

 determined correct number use that layer in loading. 



A. W. B.— You can procure the catalogues by writing to the rifle 

 manufacturers and gun dealers, whose addresses vou will find in 

 our advertising columns. The arm you name will give satisfac- 

 tion. 



R. W. Aldrich— Baird's "Birds of North America" consists of 

 two volumes quarto, one of text and one of plates. The atlas does 

 not contain plates of all N. A. birds, but deals chiefly with those 

 of the West. 



Nipissing, Boston.-Possibly some of the readers of your paper 

 could give me some desired information in regard to the shooting 

 on and about Lake Nipissing, Ontario, and whether there is good 

 wood and black duck shooting there in September: also, whether 

 the wild rice and celery are to be found growing in the lake, and 

 what part of the same is most desirable for headquarters? Ans. 

 See articles in issue May 6, 1886, and in present number. 



Wild Goose.— While in Minnesota shooting last fall, I bought 

 six wild geese which 1 used for decoys. A boy had hatched them 

 under a hen, and raised them in a barnyard with their wings 

 clipped. They are tar tamer than the ordinary barnvard fowl. 

 They are last spring's geese; three ganders and three geese. Will 

 they mate or is it best to have but one. gander with the geese as 

 with the barnyard fowl? If they lay would it be better to put the 

 eggs under hens or let them care for their own young? Ans. Prob- 

 ably your geese will not breed before they are three vears old. 

 They will pair and should be allowed to hatch and rear their 

 young. 



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Extract from letter received bv the U. S. Cartridge Co., Lowell, 

 Mass., from Mr. Frank Hart, of J. Hart & Co., bankers, Doyles- 

 town, Pa., dated Jan. 21, 1887: "I have about come to the conclu- 

 sion that your .22 short rim-fire cartridges are the most reliable 

 in the market, and they are beginning to be appreciated by those 

 who know where a bullet ought to go when they pull the trigger." 

 —Adv. 



POT LUCK FROM EXCHANGES. 



In conversation with a gentleman who passed through here 

 a few days ago. he told me that on his way in he passed sixty 

 wagons loaded with game. We will say that 1 he average 

 load of each wagon was ten deer. This is a small estimate, 

 as many of the wagons had on four-horse loads. I do not 

 wish to exaggerate— the truth is bad enough. Sixty wagons 

 containing ten each would make a total of 600 deer hauled 

 out of this county in one week. Nor is this all. It has been 

 proven that this class of hunters wound and kill three times 



as raany as they get. To load these sixty wagons 1,800 deer 

 were slain. At the commencement of the hunting season, as 

 a general thing, the weather is too warm for meat to keep, 

 and the consequence is one-half the loads that are sent out 

 are dumped beside the road. I have seen many loads hauled 

 out of town and thrown away, because there was so much 

 in the market people would not take it at any price. It is a 

 self-evident fact that something should be done to stop this 

 useless slaughter of our game.— Routt County (Col.) Pilot. 



As this is the gunning season and stories of big game bags 

 and gunning accidents, and intelligent hunting dogs are in 

 order, it is but proper that we record the faithfulness and 

 thorough training of Dr. Gilpin's setter dog £i Sank," of the 

 Gildersleeve strain : One day this week the Doctor had 

 driven out from town, and with a friend was gunning in a 

 swamp, some four miles from town. As the evening's 

 shooting was drawing to an end at the close of the day, a 

 last bird was pointed by the dog, and flushed; a shot was 

 fired, but owing to the darkness and thick bushes, it was 

 decided the bird had not been killed. The sportsmen then 

 walked to the main road where their carriage had been left 

 standing, leaving the dog in the branch where the bird had 

 been shot at. By the time they had unhitched and team 

 ready to drive the dog was at their side. It being then quite 

 dark no particular attention was given to him except that 

 he was noticed running beside the carriage as it was driven 

 alone. Upon reaching home the carriage was driven irnme- 

 mediately to the stable within which was the dog's kennel. 

 The dog was, told to go into his box, which he did, and where 

 he was found the next morning with the bird lying at his 

 side. With the exception of having been divested of a con- 

 siderable number of feathers it showed no injury received 

 from the dog, who had kept pace with the carriage and car- 

 ried it a distance of four miles and then guarded it over 

 night. — Micldletoum (Del.) Transcript. 



Lighthouses and Wildfowl.— Mr. Herbert B. Bradley, a 

 veteran sportsman of New Haven, was at the Astor House 

 last night on his way home, having concluded a successful 

 winter duck-hunting expedition to Montauk Point in com- 

 pany with Messrs. Henry L. Sperry and Willard Eakin, of 

 Brooklyn. The men took good bags of fowl during the 

 daily flights of the birds from the ponds and inlets with 

 which the eastern end of Long Island is studded. "But the 

 thing that impressed me most," said Mr. Bradley, "was the 

 wholesale slaughter of wildfowl by the lantern at the light 

 in thick weather. I had often heard it spoken of and had 

 read of it in the papers, but I never supposed it to amount to 

 much. On two occasions while we were there, once on a 

 foggy night and once during a snow storm, there was, I 

 should judge, a small cart load of fowl killed by flying 

 against the lantern. The ground at the foot of the light was 

 literally covered with the birds and blood and feathers. The 

 people living there said it was occasioned by the birds' 

 bewilderment in the thick atmosphere. When in this con- 

 dition they come upon the light, it seems to dazzle them and 

 they fly directly into it and are killed. "—JSf. Y. Commercial 

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