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From No, 318 Broadway will be sent out weekly in the year 1889 a paper filled in all its 

 departments with reading matter acceptable to those who find pleasure in the pursuit of 

 field sports. The popularity of these pastimes was never greater than it is to day; numbers 

 of men who find rational relaxation in the field were never larger; the hold these recreations 

 have on the public has never been firmer than now. It is a pleasure to add that in this 

 measure, of public esteem the Forest and Stream shares to the full. 



Mr. Henry MacDonald, whose descriptions of "E'irly Days on the Missouri" were so 

 well received last summer, will supplement them with further 



Sketches of Frontier Life. 



Pertaiuing to the same field will be a paper by Mr. J. W. Schulte describing the 

 ancient importance of the 



Fort Benton Fur Market. 



The same writer will furnish a continuation of his valuable Blackfoot studies, among 

 the titles of which may be named "A War Parly" and "The Origin of the Medicine Pipe." 

 Rich treasure from this inexhaustible field of 



Indian Folk Lore and Life 



will be laid before our readers by the veteran "Yo," whose Pawnee legend of 



The Dun Horse 



will be followed by others in a like happy vein; and from the same pen will come a rarely 

 interesting— because vivid and racy— account of 



The Summer Hunt of the Pawnees, 



in the old buffalo days. There will be sketches by the author of "Sam Lovel's Camps," 

 distinguished for the fame inimitable cbaracler studies of the Danvi* folk, the close insight 

 into nature, and delicious vignettes of word-paintmg. Uuckr the title, 



A Breath from the Maine Woods, 



will be described the angling experiences of a Boston party at Moosehead, by "W. A B.," 

 whose sketches of a fisherman's life in Maine havp been received with so much favor. 



Thr pages devoted to the delightful subject of Natural History will net be less full and 

 interesting for the coming year than in the past. Among the special papers fur which we 

 have arrangtd are a continuation of the series of illustrated articles on 



North American Mammals, 



by Dr. R. W. Shufeldt. These will include articles, more or less extended and very fully 

 illustrated by drawings by the autbor, on the Bats, the In«ectivora and t he Carnivora 



There will be publishfd during tbe year ■ xtended illustrated articles on the life and 

 habits of some of the large game animals of North America, in which will be brought 

 together all that is known of these creatures, now so rapidly disappearing from off the lace 

 of the land. The first of these will be the production of Mr. John Fannin and Geo. Bird 

 Grinnell, and will deal with the rare and little known 



White Goat. 



A subject which interests sportsmen and naturalists alike is the 



Domestication of Game. 



We have arranged for a series of articles on this subject, which will, it is believed, be 

 of remarkable interest to every thoughtful reader. The, series is expected to contain 

 accounts of the habits in captivity of deer, elk, antelope, mountain sheep, white gouts, 

 buffalo, wolves, bears, panthers and other North American / rm naiwa. 



There will be papers on birds by well-known ornithologi&tf, on reptiles by Miss 

 Catherine C. Hopley, two of whose articles, to be published shortly, will he on the 



Hibernation of Reptiles and on Snakes' Weapons 



Articles on many of the lower forms of life, together with notes and news on natural 

 history subjects fiom all quarters of the continent will make up an amount of matter for the 

 year that is to come which will be sufficiently varied and a'tractive to delight all who take 

 an interest in natural history. The investigations and explorations of a naturalist in the 

 Northwest will be described by Edward Howe Forbush in a series entitled 



Five Days a Savage. 



In the misadventures of Father Christian le Clerc, a seventeenth century missionary, 

 Mr. Edward Jack has found material for an interesting paper, 



Lost in the Forests of Acadia. 



The descriptive papers of travel will not be confined to North America. Our East. 

 Indian contributor, ' Shikaree, 1 ' will give the'readers of Forest and Stream some more 

 of his delightful accounts of 



Hunting in the Himalayas, 



and from another pen we shall have equally entertaining narratives of 



Shooting on Mount Olympus, 



and other localities in the Far East. A leading feature of our 



Shooting and Fishing Columns 



will be our special correspondence from the West, keeping the readers of this journal fully 

 abreast of the events of the times in Western game fields and fishing waters. The accounts 

 of big-game shooting will be frequent, and in these respects the Forest and Stream will 

 maintain its long-established popularity. 



The Trap Reports of 1889 



will be given in the best form by the journal's own representative and other competent 

 reporters. They will make good the promises contained in the actual performances of the 

 autumn of 1888, when our full reports of important tournaments were acknowledged to 

 have been the best pieces of special work of the kind ever done. The Trap columns will be 

 kept in the front rank; and because of them the paper will be indispensable to shooters. 

 In our 



Kennel Department 



will be found, in 1889, reports of all the bench shows, prepared by conscientious and per- 

 fectly competent hands. In this strong feature the Fokest and Stream is universally 

 recognized as facile princeps and it will be the highest ambition and most zealous care of 

 the editors to contiuue on the old lines, giving the public show records and reports to be 

 studied with profit. Our field trial reports will be graphic and reliable. An important 

 piece of work undertaken by this journal is an in ves-tigation of the methods employed in 

 different towns and cities of the country to dispose of the surplus and vagrant stock of dogs. 

 The results of this inquiry will be given in early issues; and it is hoped that i-ome practical 

 benefit may be gained in the general adoption of humane and reasonable methods of reduc- 

 ing the canine surplus. 



Notice to Sportsmen and Warning to Infringers. 



Having purchased the patents, business and good will of the American Clay Bird 

 Co., we beg leave to advise the trade and sportsmen generally, that the American Clay 

 Bird will not be manufactured any longer. Parties owning American Clay Bird Traps 

 can have in exchange for tbem the latest improved Blue Rock Trap, on the payment 

 of a difference of $2.50 each. Correspondence from all parties who have been using 

 the American Clay Bird Trap is respectively solicited. 



Being now the sole owners of all valid patents covering the pivoted carrier, we 

 hereby give notice that all parties infringing the same, will be promptly prosecuted to 

 the full extent of the law. 



The Blue Rock Pigeon and Trap have been greatly improved and will enter the field 

 in 1889 in better shape than ever. 



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