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FOREST AND STREAM, 
lAvQ. 23, 1896. 
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RAINBOW LAKE, ADIRONDACKS. 
New York, Aug. 13. — No man likes hunting for deer 
and fishing for trout more than I, and the pictures which 
I send you illustrate the place and home of the deer and 
where the speckled beauties can be caught — a place 
wherever you row and wherever you walk you are sure 
to meet streams, ponds and springs, some of the loveliest 
of scenery. 
Rainbow Lake is situated midway between St. Regis 
and Loon lakes, in the heart of the Adirondacks. The 
place is best reached by way of XJtica over the Adiron- 
dack & St. Lawrence R. R. (a branch of the New York 
Central R, R ). The. proprietor of Rainbow Inn is James 
M. Wardner; a better hearted man in the Adirondacks 
cannot be found, an educated gentleman, an accomplished 
and enthusiastic fisherman and himter, well acquainted 
with the habits of birds, insects and game in these woods 
for the pt»Bt forty years, he having come to Rainbow in 
the year 1856, 
In the earlier days Rainbow was a howling wilderness 
and then the panthnr, wolf and bear were plentiful. Mr. 
Wardner has hunted and killed many of them. And if 
one has an opportimity to go to Rainbow and go a-hunt- 
ing or fishing with Mr. Wardner, he will find himself 
listening with wonder to this grand old gentleman's 
stories, founded on facts, of how he has hunted and fished. 
I have hunted and fished at Rainbow many times. I have 
been with all the guides there. They are all like their 
master, good-hearted fellows, well versed in the art of 
handling the gun and rod. 
I recall to my memory an incident I can never forget. 
A few years ago, while himting for deer up the stream 
called the Big Inlet, a lovely, still, moonlight night, my 
boat lying with my guide and myself within the shadows 
of some overhanging boughs, I beheld within a very 
short distance a lovely full-grown doe feeding among the 
lilypads, unconscious of any danger at hand, while her 
fawn on the bank close by was crying for its mother to 
return to its offspring. The fawn had evidently got the 
scent of lis, while its mother had not. After a while the 
doe turned to its fawn and together they went back into 
the woods. It was a grand sight and it was one of those 
times in a hunter's life when nothing would induce him 
to draw up his rifle and shoot. I remember at the time 
my faithful guide saying, "Don't shoot." Such scenes are 
rare. No artist could do justice to that grand sight. 
The waters around Rainbow are fuU of trout. I know 
of no better place to fish, and I have caught many trout 
there. I once caught a mesa weighing all the way from 
fib. to lib. each. It was one of my best fishing times. 
The place selected was the stream up by Pay Dam, he-i 
yond Rainbow River. I can see now those beauties jump 
for the flies I cast, and when my guide would place the 
net under the water to carefully land them, new life 
would come to them and they would dodge the net here 
and there with great vim. It was great sport. 
I have just returned from a fishing trip to Rainbow. I 
cjught a good many weighing ^Ib. each. I fished up 
Rainbow River and Lilypad Pond, and a friend, the same 
day, fishing up the Big Inlet, came in with a number 
weighing over lib, each. Mr. Wardner was so pleased 
with our day's catch that he too, thorough sportsman as 
he is, could not resist the temptation to go that very even- 
ing up the stream to try his luck, I left for home that 
evening, and so did not learn what he caught. My friends 
who are fond of ths gun and rod (good fellows such men 
are), if you want to go somewhere to build up the tired 
and worn-out constitution, to better fit yourselves to take 
up anew your business pursuits, and you don't care how 
you rough it, then I tell you the place is Rainbow; a place 
where they will take good care oi you, and a place where 
you will associate with good people. W, W. B, 
MAINE DEER MULTITUDINOUS. 
Brewer, Me., Aug. 7. — Editor Forest and Stream: In 
your lest issue Special says: "Thirty deer seen in one day 
at Big Spencer Lake were none too many for a guide to 
write me about. But he signed no name to his postal 
card except A Guide. Of course he wants me to believe 
the story and publish it." In the same issue Mr. Hough 
writes: "Mr. A. H, Weed, of Anderson, Md., is just 
back from a vacation trip in Maine, and says he saw 
more deer than he ever did. He saw over 100 in a day, 
and they were so tame that he often paddled up to 
within 25 to 76yds, of them as they stood near the shore," 
A few years ago if I had been told that any one had 
seen thirty deer in one day I should have been as doubt- 
ful as Special seems to be, but now any one who thinks it 
anything strange to see as many around many of our 
lakes and streams is decidedly a "back number,'* I have 
not the least doubt that Mi-. Weed told Mr. Hough the 
truth when he claimed that he saw over 100 in one day. 
Wednesday, July 8, I started to visit my old friend Louis 
Ketchum, who has a fine hunting camp at the head of 
Nahmakunta Lake, some twenty-eight miles from Nor- 
croBS. While on the way up I met a guide of my ac- 
quaintance who told me that the week before he sat in 
his canoe and counted twenty-six deer in one place. 
Shortly after arriving at Ketchum's namp he came in 
with a party he had been guiding, Mr. Ignatius Sargent, 
wife and son, from Massachusetts. They had been up to 
Rainbow Lake photographing deer. Louis told me that 
at one time he counted twenty- three from his canoe. 
Two days after, while fishing on Rainbow dead water, 
where there is little chance for deer to feed, we could see 
them on all sides, often six or eight being in sight at 
once. They were bo tame that they paid no attention to 
our talking, and would allow us to go very near them. 
We saw one doe with a fawn and another with two. Two 
old bucks met while wading round a point of bushes, and 
as neither would yield the right of way, one raised his 
forefoot very handily and struck ihe other over the head, 
causing him to turn out. 
Shortly after this I went with Lpuis overland to some 
ponds where he had another canoe. There was good 
feeding ground in this country, but as we went up with a 
strong wind, most of the deer left the water before we 
saw them, but when coming back I kept accurate count, 
and we saw thirty-four deer in not over two hours. At 
one time I saw sixteen. Six of them were ail together. 
Many of them, wliich were feeding on paints or grassy 
islands, took to the water and swam, and we paddled 
very near to some of them. We did not see a single doe 
with a fawn among these thirty-four, although probably 
many of them had fawns which they had left back in the 
woods. Fully three-fourths were does or yearlings. 
Most people greatly overestimate the natural increase 
of deer. They usually reckon that, as a doe has two 
fawns, the stock of deer doubles annually. They do 
not take into the account the many barren does and the 
lar^e number of fawns which are destroyed by animals. 
Besides bears, lynx and wildca,t8, fishers destroy many. 
It may seem incredible that an animal weighing but from 
10 to 12lb8. can kill a fawn, but fishers not only kill fawns 
but full-grown deer. Louia told me of finding two full- 
grown deer at different times which had been killed by 
fishers. Even the common red fox sometimes kills fawns, 
I think that an increase of 50 per cent, is fully large 
enough to reckon on for the natural increase of unpro- 
tected deer. 
During my short stay I saw over seventy deer, and my 
son, who went across the country by way of the Debske- 
neay ponds to climb Katahdin, saw over fifty in four 
days, and also saw two moose, one an old bull with large 
horns. I also saw numerous fresh signs of moose. Peo- 
ple visiting this same country in the open season will see 
very few deer from a canoe, as they will then have left 
the vicinity of the water, but they will be abundant in 
the woods. 
I think there is very little illegal killing done in this 
coimtry this season. I heard of three cow moose which 
had been killed near Schoodic and Sebois lakes, and one 
or two of the offenders had been arrested before my re- 
turn. But I did not heai* of a moose being killed south of 
Katahdin, above Norcroas, and did not hear a gun fired by 
anyone while in that country. All the guides I met spoke 
decidedly against killing moose in close time, One guide 
had a theory as to how to cause an increase of bull moose. 
He contends that as the bulls are growing scarce they 
should be protected for a term of years, but that people 
should be permitted to kill the cows and so allow the bulls 
to increase. His theory is certainly original. 
M. Hardy. 
NEW ZEALAND'S INTRODUCED GAME. 
The annual report of the Wellington, New Zealand, 
Acclimatization Society for the year 1896 is a pamphlet 
of very great interest, for it treats of the introduction into 
a country quite without game animals of species brought 
from the old world and the new. 
Of these species the European red de^r (Cervus elaphus) 
is easily the most important, and New Zealand has proved 
itself in all respects a most suitable home for deer, the 
climate being all that can be desired, and pasturage, 
water and shelter abundant. Starting with three indi- 
viduals, the red deer have multiplied, thriven and increased 
in such a way that they now roam in hundreds over a 
considerable area of territory. The progenitors of this 
herd were introduced into the Province of Wellington in 
the year 1863, through the kindness of the late Prince 
Consort, who furnished six deer to be forwarded to New 
Zealand: three for the Province of Wellington and three 
for Canterbury. These deer were captured in Windsor 
Park and were kept there for a short time to prepare 
them for their sea voyage. One stag and two hinds were 
shipped to Wellington, where, on June 6, after a passage 
of 137 days, one stag and one hind arrived safely. Of the 
three deer shipped for Canterbury only one hind lived to 
be landed, and this one was sent to Wellington and kept 
there with the other two. 
After some time these deer were conveyed to Mr. Car- 
ter's station on the Taratahi Plains, and early in 1863 
were liberated there, and crossing Ruamahanga River 
began to range on the Maungaraki ranges. These moun- 
tains consist of limestone formation, and much of the 
soil has been sown with English grass, which is supposed 
in a measure to account for the extraordinary growth of 
the antlers developed by the deer in that locality. From 
this place deer have spread into various other valleys and 
seem to be working their way annually into sections 
where none have hitherto been found. 
In New Zealand the red deer shed their antlers in Sep- 
tember, which corresponds to our month of March, the 
new horns beginning to grow almost at once. The antlers 
harden toward the end of January and soon the velvet is 
rubbed off and the animal is in an incomplete condition. 
The rut is said to occur from March 30 to about April li. 
Females breed the third year and each year thereafter. 
Considerable difference of opinion exists in the Colony 
as to when stags ought to be shot. Of course, they are in 
their prime during the months of February and March, 
but the Council have thought it best to fix the date for 
the beginning of the killing of these stags not earlier than 
the latter part of the rutting season. 
It is reported that the sambur deer {Rusa aristotelis) 
which have been introduced in the Carnarvon district are 
increasing, and it is suggested that steps be taken to intro- 
duce the roe, fallow and other varieties of deer in the 
Wellington district. 
Birds, 
Continued efforts to rear pheasants have been made dur- 
ing the past year, and Mr. Knowlton, of Greytown, has 
been the most successful of those attempting this. He has 
reared about forty fine birds, and altogether about sixty 
have been turned out as the result of the year's operations. 
Mr. R. Campbell Grant, of London, recently purchased 
for the Society two pairs of Elliott pheasants, which 
arrived in February, but one of the cocks died shortly 
before landing. The remaining birds are now in charge 
of Mr. Knowlton and are in excellent condition. A num- 
ber of wild ducks, chiefly mallards, have been hatched 
during the year, and a preserve for English wild ducks 
has been set aside near Martinborough. 
A shipment of Virginia quail from America had not 
arrived at the publication of this report. 
The game protective act of 1895 provides for a close sea- 
son for native pigeons during 1896 and every succeeding 
sixth year, and also repeals the clause in the act of 1890 
which allows the sale of game by holders of shooting 
licenses. A number of additional game wardens have 
been appointed during the year, and a number of prose- 
cutions instituted for breaches of the law. In most of 
these cases convictions were obtained and substantial fines 
inflicted. The Co incil find the work of protecting game 
difficult on account of the thougjitlessness and selfishness 
of many people. ,. 
CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 
CHIOAQO, III., Aug. 8.— Mr. Tom Callender, of JSTash- 
ville, Tenn., while in Chicago this week was good enough 
to give me an invitation to join in a sport which I imag;ine 
to be somewhat peculiar. "Come down to Nashville," 
said he, "and I will take you out for a day of convict 
chasing with the hounds." 
"What is that?" I asked him, supposing that he prob- 
ably meant trailing an escaped prisoner with blood- 
hounds. He explained that the chase was not exactly 
bona fide, although the hounds really chase an actual 
convict. It seems that there are forty or fifty hounds, 
not bloodhounds, but foxhounds, which are owned by the 
State and used at different points where the convict labor 
is employed. The main penitentiary is located at Nash- 
ville, and a number of convicts are engaged there now on 
one of the new buildings. It is desirable to train the dogs 
on human quarry, so that when they are actually used to 
trail an escaping prisoner their work may be more 
efficient. For a dollar or two it is easy to discover some 
healthy negro convict who would rather run ahead of the 
dogs than to work all day. He is given a couple of hours' 
start, and the dogs are then put on the trail. They never 
fail to put their man up a tree, and a man never fails to 
climb a tree when he sees them coming. Mr. Callender 
says he once saw a convict who had been a little slow, 
lazy, ahead of the dogs, get chased for nearly a quarter 
of a mile at hot speed across the gun club grounds to the 
nearest tree, which was not a very big one at that. The 
foxhounds would certainly pull down their man if he did 
not take to a tree. In this way the dogs are kept trained 
for the frequent use needful in the camps, where the con- 
victs are continually jumping their guards and escaping 
into the swamps and thickets, where they could never be 
recovered by any other means. I am not quite clear that 
I would be used to this sort of hunting at first, though I 
recall that I was once called upon to help chase a horse 
thief, and have a vague recollection that we caught him. 
Mr. Callender also asks me to share in another singular 
sport, that of shooting wild hogs, of which there are 
many not far from Nashville, These are the domestic 
hogs gone wild, but they make a rather dangerous game. 
Mr. Callender uses for them a ,25-30 rifle with nitro load, 
which he has found very effective. He killed a number 
last spring. 
I recall that there is a place in the Mississippi bottoms 
near Dubuque, la., where wild hogs are often hunted. 
That is an open country, where riding is possible, and the 
chase is on horseback after dogs. I do not know whether 
or not the spear could be used here, but I think it would 
be a lot of fun with the dogs and rifle. There are num- 
bers of wild hogs in the swamps of the Mississippi Delta, 
and the veteran, Bob Bobo, always said that they were 
the most dangerous animal that ran in the canebrakes, 
Mr. Ben Bush, of Kalamazr>o, Mich,, tells me a fairy 
story, which he, however, declares is not a fairy story, 
about a new sort of fiah that they have in a lake called 
Birch Lake, in the Michigan southern peninsula. He 
says that they have the large and the small mouth bass, 
and also a red-eyed slimmish bass whose meat is red or 
salmon color. They call the latter the "salmon-bass." Is 
it possible that I am to take upon my string the salmon- 
bass as well as the fantail deer and pine nut bear? 
Doves and Sangaree. 
Mr. T. A. Divine, of Memphis, has finally kept his prom- 
ise of coming to Chicago, and has returned to his home. 
Dog owners of this city have not yet had time to check up 
tbeir lopses. 
Mr. Divine says that the dove shooting around Memphis 
is phenomenal this year. "The way to do," said he, "is 
to find a wheat field where the birds are feeding. Then 
you find a nice shady tree where the breeze is good, and 
you sit there in a chair. You have your shell box open 
on one side of you, and on the other you have a nice big 
bucket of sangaree, not too strong and not too weak. Of 
course you have a fan. Then you have a little nigger boy 
to run out and pick up your dead birds for you. It doesn't 
take him long to learn to keep down low when the birds 
are coming in over him, and sometimes hewUl bring four 
or five birds in at once. This is the way we shoot doves 
in our country, and it is my notion of the way all shooting 
ought to be done." 
This idea certainly should appeal to Chicago shooters 
during this torrid week. 
The other day- 1 discovered something which my in- 
formant told me I ought to have learned long ago in ray 
camping experience. We were boiling a pot of coffee 
over an open fire, and of course the coffee boiled over, 
grounds and all. My companion laid two or three twigs 
across the foaming grounds on the top of the coffee pot, 
and the latter subsided and ceased to spill over. "Didn't 
you ever know that?" said he. 
I have recently found that chiggers, chigres or jiggers 
are to be found in Northern woods as well as in the South- 
ern country. I long ago discovered in the Indian nations 
that bacon rind wa,s a speedy remedy for these invisible 
little red spiders that bore into the skin and raise bumps 
on a fellow. 
It was Hungry. 
Mr. J. S. Dumser, of Elgin, III., is an old-time contrib- 
utor to Forest and Stream, and wrote for the paper 
twenty years ago. During a pleasant call at this office 
this week Mr. Dumser, who is a member of the Leather- 
Stocking Club, who are sworn to moderation in fish stories, 
told me of a recent incident that happened on the Fox 
River. Two friends were fishing for bass, with soft 
crawfish for bait. One had a bite and the fish carried off 
his line, but he did not strike it, thinking it had dropped 
the bait. Some moments later the second man had a bite 
and hooked his fish. Pulling it out, it was discovered 
that the fish had the first angler's hook swallowed as well 
as that of the second man. It was evidently hungry and 
knew when it didn't have enough. This is further argu- 
ment for the belief in the insensibility to pain possessed 
by fishes. The environment which makes it necessary to 
swallow perch and bullheads ought to be equal to a fish 
hook or two now and then. E. Hotjgh. 
1306 BoYCE Building, Oiiicago. 
A Three-Barreled Hammerless. 
Why do not some gun manufacturers put on the market 
a hammerless three barreled gun, two barrels shot and 
the third rifle? No sportsman goes to the woods that he 
does not want the three barrels, also never a-duck-hunting 
that he doep^'t need the three barrels. A- F. NlMS, 
