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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[July 29, 1893, 



Connecticut Deer and Mongolian Pheasants. 



Mr. Collins spoke especially of the law passed by the 

 last Legislature to protect deer in the State, Many had 

 laughed at this law as useless as there were no deer in the 

 State. He said that there were a number in Connecticut. 

 Tliey swim the Sound from the New York shore where 

 they are more plentiful. Not long ago a deer was shot 

 while swimming the river at Glastonbury, and it floated 

 down the stream. Deer are often seen in localities along 

 the Sound shore. 



He also spoke especially of the Mongolian or Chinese 

 pheasants of which there are soon to be a considerable 

 number liberated by several gentlemen who have been 

 breeding them in this vicinity. A law was also passed by 

 the Legislature of '93 protecting these birds. They are 

 brought from China, are very hardy and are excellent 

 eating. Noah Wallace, of Farmington, now has four 

 cocks and eight hens. The eggs are hatched out by ban- 

 tam hens, and they are as easy to raise as are turkeys. 

 They take to the woods as easily as ducks to the water, 

 A number of men hereabouts have pooled issues, are 

 raising the birds and wiU liberate them as early as prac- 

 ticable.— jETar^/ord Post interview ivith Game and Fish 

 Warden A. C. Collins. 



Washington Woodcock. 



Washington, D. C, July 15.— A member of a certain 

 gun club here in Washington not long since took a dozen 

 half grown woodcock to a dealer in Center Market. He 

 was told never to bring such stuff (smaU-sizpd birds) there 

 again. 



Can any of the oldest inhabitants remember a prosecu- 

 tion for the illegal killing and selling of game in this city? 

 The case referred to above is one of the worst we have 

 heard of recently, and the miscreant should be brought to 

 justice. 



A full grown woodcock was caught a few days ago in a 

 yard on Sixth street Southeast, between A and B streets, 

 by a cat. This locality is an old portion of the city, fully 

 built up, and the presence of the bird there is a mystery.' 



"Bart. 



Winter-KiUed Quail. 



Baltimore, July 20. — I have just returned from a trip 

 through eastern shore of Maryland and Virginia, also 

 portions of Delaware. While there I learned that quail 

 had fared quite badly during the past winter, many 

 coveys being found frozen. Rabbits met a like fate. It 

 appeared that the further south I went on the peninsula 

 the greater was the destruction, probably owing to the 

 rarity of such severe weather as visited them last winter. 

 Some of the farmers and resident sportsmen humanely 

 fed and sheltered the birds, enough being protected in 

 certain sections for "seed." Birds wintered fairly well in 

 the western and northern sections of the States mentioned, 

 being used to severe weather and better able to withstand 

 it. Mount Rotall. 



Wisconsin Logging Camps and Deer. 



!Feom: an eminently trustworthy source I learn that deer 

 are killed now in large numbers in northern Wisconsin 

 regardless of legal restrictions. The deer are now in the 

 red and frequent the waters to escape the annoyance of 

 the heat and dies, so that their slaughter is easy. The 

 great logging camps ignore the game law entirely. Their 

 isolation in the wilderness and common guilt make the 

 collection of evidence almost impossible. Deer are very 

 plentiful in northern Wisconsin, according to reports 

 from that section. Their destruction is also gi-eat. My 

 informant says that but a small part of a deer is used by 

 the loggers. The best part of the hindquarters is reserved 

 and the rest is thrown away. And thus is the deer fol- 

 lowing the wild pigeon and buffaloes. B. Waters. 



"Forest and Stream- at the Fjir. 



British Guiana. 



British Guiana has a large space near the northwest 

 corner of the main floor of the Agricultural Building, and 

 is particularly novel and interesting. Large logs set on 

 end close together form an inclosure to the exhibit. The 

 logs make quite a forestly exhibit in themselves, being 

 specimens of the various wood grown in the forests of 

 British Guiana. Many kinds take a most beautiful pohsh, 

 are very dense and hard, and the gi-ain of some of them 

 is very beautiful. All the names of the woods are mean- 

 ingless to the average American. Here are some of 

 them: Letterwood, kakaralli, eta palm, cabucalli, tooro 

 palm, kantaballi, yeUow sanders, paddle-wood tree, 

 moraballi, towaranero, pakoorie, black greenheart, 

 monkey-pot, locust souari, tonka bean, purple heart hoo- 

 boobaUi, hackia, crabwood, yellow cironaballi, wamara, 

 wallaba, waibaima, siki-siki-danna, oolu, kooriky, togle- 

 kop, and dozens of other kinds. 



Cassa bread, made of mandioc roat, rice of many varie- 

 ties in and out of the husk, coffee, cocoa beans, and canned 

 fruits of strange kinds — strange to the people of the Tem- 

 perate Zone at least — gave a fair idea of the food products 

 of the country. 



Bark fibres, apparently of good quality and color, had 

 names no less strange than the different kinds of wood. 

 There were wadadura, wadara, kakarally, cocoanu*-, palm, 

 bamboo, wina and mahoe fibres, and silk grass and hemp, 

 the latter being a necessity wherever there are sheriffs or 

 vigilantes. 



But the animals of the country were no lessnumerous in 

 variety than the woods. An ant bear or youn g anteater and 

 the little an teater both apj^eared to have full ant eating 

 powers. Monkeys there were in more kinds and varieties 

 than could be imagined by the most delirious imaginer. 

 They were in size from that of a common squirrel to the 

 size of a big cat; and, in colors, they were yellow, black, 

 bruwn, mixed, long and shorthaired; but every one had 

 the same air of sober benevolence so characteristic of an 

 aboriginal ancestor. 



An iguana, a monster lizard, a weird creature with a 

 lot of natural passamenterie growing down its back and 

 around its neck, is said to be a rare good tidbit for the 

 table. Its looks are against it, but probaMy the looks 

 could be corrected by proper cooking, as I imagine it looks 

 better cooked. 



A tapir and jaguar formed a large centerpiece to the 

 exhibit, and a cayman or great alligator, with a mouth 

 which could speak volumes all at one time if it could but 

 speak, was a most impressive sight. 



Here and there in vacant places between the upright 

 logs of the inclosure, were placed stuffed wildcats of 

 many varieties, though none of them were large. Rac- 

 coons of different kinds, jjec^aries, ocelot, wood deer, 

 manatee or water cow, armadilloes, hacka tiger, common 

 otter, broad-tailed otter and young opossum, spiny rat, 

 vampire bat (a vegfctable eater, and not a blood-sucker as 

 falsely represented) made a most interesting collection. 

 There were birds of many kinds, bright and duU plumage. 

 A few varieties of ducks were the only kind of interest to 

 the sportsman. 



The fishes, too, were represented in variety, and most 

 of them had a most imcanny appearance. One kind, the 

 baghea, of the salmon family, had teeth fully an inch 

 long, shaped like canine teeth, yet the fish when alive 

 would not weigh over 51bs. or 61bs. The visitor will see 

 many oil ;er weird things. Bugs of monstrous size and 

 shape, crabs, forest rodents (some of them as large as an 

 average-sized Italian greyhound), tiny deer, etc. There 

 also are some beautiful specimens of handicraft, made of 

 feathers, fish scales worked into artificial flowers, delicate 

 rice and shell work. It is astonishing how many beauti- 

 ful thmgs can be made of such common material. 



Domestic utensUs, primitive weapons, etc., are shown. 



"The Wilderness Hunter." 



It is satisfactory to be able to welcome in Mr. Theodore Roosevelt 

 "The Wilderness Hunter"' (Putnams) a noteworthy and valuable ar 

 dition to the very brief list of good books on American big game Iiud' 

 ing. Most books on this subject are marred by tv>^o Very seriou 

 faults. On the one hand the thirst for blood, the butcher spirit, appeo r 

 often upperrriostin the writer's mind, and he seems to rejoice in enun 

 erating the number of his victims and in describing their dying stnif 

 gles. More tiresome, though not so oflfensive, is the repetition in sik 

 a volume, of the camp jokes, which, however amusing they ma 

 be to those who hear them for the first time, and in the light of tli 

 circumstances and surroundings, enjoy them, fall drearily flat whe 

 they come under the eye of the reader, who knows only so much < 

 the people or the events as he can gather from a brief and often il 

 written sketch. Such offences against good taste and good literatu 

 are not to be found in Mr. Roosevelt's books. 



The qualities which we hope for in the author of a book of this chai 

 act er are eyes open to see and a soul to appreciate na ture. If to tW, 

 we add the happy gift of telling what he has seen so that others ma 

 see and feel with him, we are likely to come very near to a perfec 

 book. The open eyes and the appreciative spirit are a large part o 

 the equipment of the real sportsman. To these qualities of brain an 

 heart add a good physique and experience and training in woodcraft 

 and we have the ideal sportsman, who, after all, is only a gentle mai 

 trained in a special way. He may not have the polish of the cities 

 nor wear good clothes, or, on the other hand, he may be in appearanc 

 the most exaggerated dude to be found on all the length or Fifth o 

 Commonwealth avenues, but if his heart is right, the gun, the rod, fch 

 rifle or the shaps will even all things up. for in camp in the West clothe 

 don't count, and one man is just as good as another if he shows that hi 

 can do a man's work. Your true democracy is found on the plain 

 and in the mountains, A man such as this does not dwell with gust 

 on the blood he has spilled, the number of elk he killed out of on* 

 band, or the number of times he bad to shoot a wounded animal. H< 

 will talk to you rather of the curious shots he has made, of what tli( 

 bear or the sheep did during a half day w-hen he lay hidden behini 

 the rocks watching them, being unwilling to fire at them because hi 

 was so interested in the work or the play of the wild creatures befori 

 him that he would not disturb them. 



Most of the blood and the killing may be left out of the books; 

 can get enough of that by interviewin.g an employee at a slaughte( 

 house. And, in fact, we believe that nowadays most men who havi 

 had some experience carry their .rifles with them more as a matter o 

 habit, and as an excuse for their trip, than because they want to kj 

 anything. Of course, they do kiU now and then, to keep the camp t 

 metit or to try and secure some unusually large or odd heads. Bu 

 the amount of meat that can be eaten in a given time— even by hungr 

 hunters— is limited, and to kill without an object is surely not sports 

 manlike. We recall the case of a friend who on a two months' hunt 

 ing trip In the mountains expended only nineteen cartridges. 



In many cases then, the hunting trip is made and the rifle carriedi 

 nominally to get game, but really to furnish an excuse for the out 

 door life that we all so much long for. The inherited fetters d 

 civilization bind us all so fast that we"^ must have a definite object ii 

 view, even for our vacations. It may be nothing more serious thai 

 to catch trout out of some special stream, to go by canoe down i 

 particular river, to kill a few head of game or to climb a certail 

 mountain, but we must have an object, some end to be attained. Feti 

 young or middle-aged men, who have much energy, would cave t< 

 spend their vacations sitting on a hotel piazza. But given the object- 

 this certain thing to be accomplished— the young man of the preseu' 

 day is likely to throw himself into it heart and' soul and to carry v 

 through with the same earnestness which he usually devotes to tin 

 so-called serious pursuits of life. 



Mr. Roosevelt is suflQciently known by his earlier writings as a keei 

 sportsman, and one who looks at sport of whatever description froil 

 the best standpoint. His first book on this subject, "Hunting Trips oi 

 a Ranchman," was a charming volume, and the same may be said ioi 

 the later "Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail." To the present worl) 

 he brings a riper hunting experience, and a literary style even mon 

 attractive than in his earlier works. There is a freshness and a breera 

 out-of-door flavor about it that calls up vividly to the mind the higt 

 dry country where the cattle range, and the lofty crags where tBe 

 white goat lies on the snowbanks in the shade. In imagination or Ji 

 memory we can see under the starlight the cattle bedded, with th« 

 night herders rldmg round them, the little clouds rising up out of the 

 north, hear the cow punchers singing and calling in the denser blacJr 

 ness, the rising of the uneasy herd, and then see the blinding flash an^ 

 hear the rush and roar of the stampede. Or we lie in camp high up 

 on some mountain side, by the tumbling stream, and as we wait foi 

 sleep we listen drowsily to the rattle of the brook, the sighing of tlw 

 pines, the neai-by sounds of small night creatures, and the distant 

 whistle of the bull elk. As Mr. Roosevelt tells it, it all seems verj 

 real to us, and for the moment we forget all about the printer, th< 

 desk, the copy and the rattle of the carts in the streets outside, an( 

 mingle again in all the old scenes, with the good horse between the 

 thighs and the rifle under the leg. There is delight in having thest 

 scenes so vividly recalled, but there is pain too. 



Ml'. Roosevelt has killed all the different varieties of big game coni' 

 monly found in the United States, and he devotes one or more chap 

 ters of his book to each species. From peccary to moose and froH 

 buffalo to big wolf, they are all described and many interesting detallf 

 given of their habits, and of the exciting times he has had when hunt 

 ing them. He also gives, incidentally, many graphic pictm-es of life 

 in the cattle country and in the mountains. He is as Keen to detect 

 the pomts of interest in a new type of man as in a new species oi 

 game, and has an eye too for the small creatures of the forest, thf 

 mountain and the plain, and tells us something of how they live, IB 

 fact the book is notable for its excellent proportion and balance. I( 

 is written throughout with real art, and yet so simply that in reading 

 it ive feel doubtful whether in writkig it art, balance or proportioi 

 were at all considered. ' 



Mr. Roosevelt's book is an admirable one, yet we do not agree with 

 all the views that he expresses. For example, on the first page of hiS 

 chapter on the whitetail deer we think thal^by implication atleaat— 

 he does that cunning animal very scanty justice. It is true that "it is 

 an inveterate skulker and fond of the thickest cover," but this, to ou< 

 mind, is only another way of saying that it is better able to take care 

 of itself than other game, and so, that a greater degree of skiU is re< 

 quired to hunt it successfully. To say that "it usually has to be killec 

 by stealth and stratagem and not by fair, manly hunting," is, to our 

 minds, to misstate the case. What is all stalking of large game* 

 but stealth and strategem— the successful matching of the 

 hunter's craft against the keen senses and inherited alertness 

 of a wild animal ever on the watch against danger? The whitetail it 

 "easily slain in any one of half a dozen unsportsmanlike ways," am 

 yet we think that there is no feat of hunting more creditable than tci 

 kill by the fair, manly stalking, that Mr, Roosevelt so heartily approves^ 

 a cunning old whitetail buck. It is not easy to do this, for of all the 

 hoofed game on this continent the whitetail is the shrewdest, keenest 

 and most difficult to circumvent. But when it has been successfull.T 

 accomplished, there is more satisfaction in it than in the killiDC 

 of half a hundred stupid elk. We believe that Mr. Roosevelt thinks sc 

 too. Of course such methods as water-killing, crusting, jack-himting 

 and the like, do not enter into consideration by sportsmen. 



There is abundant humor in this volume, and the chapter entitled 

 "In Cowboy Land" is full of good and characteristic tales of the cow 

 punchers. Of these perhaps the most amusing is the account of how 

 when a trail outfit struck a three-days-old town, the cowboys after i 

 night of revelry cut the court house (a tent) up into "pants." 



"The Wilderness Hunter" presents a series of accurate pictui-es oi 

 outdoor life in the West, and these pictures are so cleverly drawl 

 that the book will be interesting to the reader whether he is familial 

 with such scenes or not. He who has taken part in such scenes and 

 adventure will, as he reads the volume, be stirred over and over agafC 

 by old-time memories. 



The book is elaborately illustrated by twenty-four full-page engrav' 

 ings drawn by Remington, Frost, Sandham, Carter Beard and ISiton 

 and by a multitude of appropriate head and tail pieces. In paper 

 type and binding it is very handsome. 

 An edition de luxe of the volume is promised in the fall. 



A NEW-SUBSCRIBER OFFER. 



A bona fide new subscriber sending us $5 will receive for that sun 

 the FoKKST AND Stream one year (price S4) and a set of Zimmernmn'e 

 famous "Ducking Scenes" (advertised on another page, price ?5)— a 

 S9 value for $5. 



This offer is to 7i,ew subscribers only. It does not apply to renewals) 

 For 83 a bona fide new subscriber for six months will receive th^ 

 Forest am) Stbeam during that time and a copy of Dr. Van Fleet'i 

 handsome worfe, "Bird Portjaits for the Young" (the price of whiijfi 



New York Close Seasons. 



Following are the close seasons for game as fixed by the law of 1892 

 and amended in 1893. The seasons are of general application except in 

 counties specified: 



Deer.— Nov. 1-Aug. 15. Protected at all times in Ulster, Greene, Sul- 

 livan and Delaware counties. Hounding forbidden Oct. 11-Sept. 10; 

 and at all times in St. Lawrence, Delaware, Greene and Ulster coun- 

 ties. Only one carcass may be transported, accompanied by owner. 

 One person may kill only two deer in a season. Fawns may not be 

 kUled at any time 



Black ana Gray Squirrels, Rabbits.— Jan. 1-Sept. 1. 



Wi7d/owZ.— Web-footed wildfowl (except geese and brant), March 

 1-Sept. 1; may not be killed between sunset and daylight. 



Quail.- Jan. 1-Nov. 1. Protected at all times in counties of Genesee. 

 AVyoming, Orleans, Livingston, Monroe, Cayuga, Seneca, Wayne, Tomp- 

 kins, Tioga, Onondaga, Ontario, Steuben, Cortland and Otsego for a 

 period of five years. 



Woodcock, Buffed Grouse, Partridge, all Grouse.— Jan. 1-Aug 15 



Snipe.— Wilson's or English snipe, plover, rail, mud hen, gallinu'le 

 grebe, bittern, surf bird, curlew, water chicken, bay snipe, shore bird. 

 May 1-Sept 1. 



Wild Birds (except game birds named and English sparrow, crane, 

 hawk, crow, raven, crow-blackbird, common blackbird, kingfisher) 

 protected at all times. 



JRobin. — Protected at all times. 



Meadoio Larks. — Jan. 1-Nov. 1. 



Local County Close Seasons. 



Allegany.— R\\n.od. grouse (partridge) may not be hunted with a dog, 

 in Birdsall and Rushford, for 3 years. 



Columbia,— y^ooAcock, ruffed grouse, partridge, any grouse, Dec 

 1-Sept. 1. Quail, Dec. 1-Nov. 1. Black and gray squirrels, rabbits. 

 Dec. 1-Oct. 1. ' 



DMtc/iess.— Hare, rabbit, Jan. 1-Oct. 1. Woodcock:, partridge, Jan. 

 1-Sept. 1. 



iiwngrstoii. —Mongolian ring-necked pheasant protected to Dec. 1, 

 1895. Ferrets for rabbits or hares forbidden for two years from May 



Madison. — Woodcock, partridge, squirrel, Jan. 1-Oct. 1. 



Oifseffo.— Forbidden to kiU woodcock or partridge with dog for five 

 years from May 1, 1893, in Burhngton or Pittsfield. 



Putnam requires 110 license fee from non-residents to shoot game 



SMZZwaw.— Woodcock, Jan, 1-Sept. 1. Ruffed grouse, partridge, 

 Jan. 1-Oct. 1. Hares, rabbits, Sept. 1-Oct. 1. Ferrets forbidden. 



TFo-i/ne.- Woodcock, ruffed grouse, partridge, any grouse, Jan, 1- 

 Sept. 1. Plover, rail, mud hen, gaUinule, grebe, bittern, surf bird 

 curlew, water chicken, bay snipe, shore bu-d, March 1-Sept. 1. 



Yaies.— Ruffed grouse, partridge, woodcock, Jan. 1-Oct, 1. Quail to 

 Nov. 1, 1897. Non-resident license fee, SIO. 



ionflr JTston^?,. —Wildfowl (except geese and brant). May 1-Oct, 1 

 Snipe, plover, etc., Jan. 1-July 1. Quail, Jan. 1-Nov. 1. Woodcock, 

 Jan. i-Aug. 1. Ruffed grouse, partridge, hare, rabbit, black and gray 

 squirrels, Jan. 1-Nov. 1. Deer, except Nov, lO-Nov. 10 inclusive. 



Week before last Forest Stream celebrated its twentieth bu-th- 

 day, and in doing so told the story of its birth and sub.sequent 

 development. As a paper it occupies a field all alone by itself, for it 

 is the only one in the world covering the several departments of the 

 forest, field and stream, and yet making each as complete as if a 

 publicatiop by ixs^.—Albwny Times-Union. 



The Bowdish Manufacturinsr Co. 



In Section E, near columns 27 and 28, Entresol Hall, 

 Transportation Building, I noticed two models of steam- 

 boats made by the Bowdish Manufacturing Co., one the 

 Robert Fulton, built in 1814. That steamboat was the first 

 one which ran on Long Island Sound, The other one, the 

 John W. Richmond, was built in 1838, and was a famous 

 Long Island steamer. These models are in the exhibit of 

 the Providence and Stonington Steamship Co. 



Messrs. Stewart & Binney's Exhibit. 



The exhibit of this firm (successors to Edward Burgess) 

 is in the gaUeiy, columns 36 and 38, Section E. It con- 

 sists of a number of models of famous yachts, among 

 which are the Jathniel. Fancy, Gossoon, Harpoon, Puri- 

 tan, Tomahawk, Constellation, Volunteer, Sirocco, May- 

 flower, Merlin, Shearwater, Papoose and Jamboree. To 

 the yachtsmen these beautiful models are both instructive 

 and interesting from association with great events, 



Montgomery Ward & Co.'s Exhibit. 



In my perambulations about in the World's Fair Build- 

 ings, I noticed exhibits of the firm of M. W. & Co. in the 

 Transportation Building, columns 11 and 12, aisles X and 

 Y, and in Sections 105 and 169 E in the annex of the 

 Agricultural Building. B. Waters. 



Forest and Stream's 



exhibit at the World's Fair will be 

 found in the Angling Pavilion of 

 the Fisheries Building. You and 

 your friends are invited to visit us. 



Minneapolis and St. Paul 



Are reached most directly from either Chicago or St. Ixiuis by the 

 Burlington Route. Daily vestibuled trains with Pullman sleepers, 

 chair cars (seats freej and Burlington Route dining cars,— ,4dv, ' 



