A WEEKLY JOURNAL, 
Devoted to Field and Aquatic Sports, Practical Natpiul History, 
FISH CULTURE, TUB PROTECTION OF '. AMB, PKKSK KVATION O F ' 
and tor Inculcation in Men and Women op a Healthy Intbrbst 
in Out-Door Krorration and Study: 
PUBLISHED BY 
Rarest and <§trcan( publishing <£omyat\n. 
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NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1878. 
To Correspondents. 
AU communications whatever, Intended for publication, mnst be ac- 
companied with real name of the writer as a guaranty of good faith, 
and be addressed to the Forest and Stream Publishing Company. 
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CHARI-ES ILALIiOCK, Editor. 
8. H. TURHILL, Chicago, 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
—Dr. J. R. Romeyn, of Kceseville, N. Y., a gentleman who 
has visited the Adirondacks regularly for twenty-five succes- 
sive years without being surfeited with the delights of that 
region, lias very graciously sent us a large photograph, iu 
frame, containing a view Of Bartlett’s well-known sporting 
lodge at the outlet of Saranac Lake. Just at this season it is 
an opportunely pleasant reminder of a very pleasant home. 
The photograph was taken by Mr. Q. E. Baldwin, of Keesc- 
ville, whose photographs of scenery can scarcely be excelled. 
We have many of them in our collection, whose details are as 
perfect as it is possible to trausfer from the face of nature. 
Sleighing.— New York and Brooklyn enjoyed the unusual 
luxury of a day’s good sleighing on Saturday the 2d iu9t. 
The number of turnouts was large, and the display brilliant. 
On Sunday the sleighing was somewhat impaired. 
— “ It’s all ova with me now* 
out of season. 
Yes ; and the joke is all over, by this time. 
as the trout said when caught 
—It don’t look as if the times were very hard when an ad- 
vertiser like H. C. Squires, No. 1 Courtland street, sells in 
one week eight out of twelve shot-guns advertised by a single 
insertion in Forest and Stream (Jan. 31, 1878). Yet we 
have Mr. Squires’ testimony to this effect. 
The Dwellers at Currituok.— We are glad to have so 
good an author ity as Mr. J. F. Alcorn, who was an officer at- 
tached to the wrecked ship “ Metropolis," speak a good word 
for the so frequently maligned dwellers at Currituck. We 
believe they are termed “ buffaloes ” locally. They have had 
the reputation of being little less than pirates. No doubt 
they do not despise the valuable waifs which the sea throws 
up to their doors, but we do not believe that their usual habit 
is to cut off fingers of the dead to get possession of the rings 
thereon. Mr. Alcorn, in making his report, says : 
“In closing I feel that the isolated dwellers of Currituck 
Beach cannot be passed over without more than mere thanks. 
Strewn as that beach is with scores of wrecks, mute eviden- 
ces of the frequency of the call9 upon their hospitality, on 
the occasion ol this last sad calamity at their doors they were 
most prompt with their aid, generous in their hospitality, and 
munificent far beyond’ their means in the distribution of such 
spare clothing as was at their command. 
A Candid Avow ad.— A prominent legal official in Minne- 
sota unloads a debt of gratitude to us in the following lan- 
guage : 
“I really think any sportsman who lives in this State should 
appreciate the send-off which your editor has given Minnesota, 
by at least remitting for your paper and his book, the “ Sports- 
man's Gazetteer." 
To Associations of Sportsmen.— Associations for the pro- 
tection of game, game and fishing club9, rifle clubs, and gun 
clubs throughout the United States and Canada, would confer 
a special favor by sending us duplicate copies of their printed 
constitution, by-laws, with list of members, names of officers, 
etc., for 1878. Such documents of the above character as we 
may receive will be exceedingly useful, and will further the 
end and aim of all legitimate sportsmen. 
been used, and how some of it is dug out every day and 
claimed as original. In the United States, filching of this 
character, we regret to state, is common, and few weeks 
elapse that we do not discover poor rehashes of these topics, 
derived from the same identical source. ’Through Apperley’s 
brilliant talent, readers of the Sporting Magazine quadrupled 
in 1827, when Mr. Pittman died. In 1831 the New Sporting 
Magazine was produced, with Mr. Surtees as editor, Mr. Ack- 
erman for publisher, and with “Nimrod” for chief supporter. 
In 1843 Apperley died. 
In 1820, Bell's Life in Ijondon, was published. The race 
for supremacy now commenced between the monthly muga- 
zine and the weekly paper, in which the paper won eventu- 
ally. It was In 1870 that the magazine died after a lingering 
struggle. 
As in New York so in London, we fancy there is somewhat 
of an over quantity of sporting literature. The supply for 
journals of this character, at least with us, is in excess of the 
demand. There is just so much ground to be covered and no 
more. Readers cannot he forced as iu hot-houses. Some few 
journals must lead ; others follow in their wake, dragging out 
a miserable and anxious existence. 
We congratulate our English contemporary on the estab- 
lishment of what is certainly the greatest of all papers, second 
only to the London Times. The Field has accomplished a 
noble task, and has achieved its success by no chance or acci- 
dent. It abounds with true English method and soundness. 
One might gush in a rhapsodic kind of way over its aim and 
purpose. What it has done which is best, is to have elimi- 
nated from a coarse and gross medium the sportsman of only 
twenty-five years ago, and, by means of scientific study and 
observation, led him to a higher plane of thought. Our en- 
comiums are, then, hearty and sincere; even we are grateful 
for the lessons the London Field has taught us. May the 
Forest and Stream and Rod and Gun, when it reaches its 
twenty-fifth year (many of our readers, perhaps all Its editors, 
may have passed away long before that period; only approach 
the present superlative excellence of the Field and the Country 
Gentleman's Newspaper. 
T. C. BANKS, 
Business Manager. 
Western Manager. 
Tenth Volume.— With the present issue we begin the tenth 
volume of Forest and Stream, and the second volume of the 
consolidated paper. In expressing our thanks to the public 
for their increased confidence and patronage, we feel at liberty 
to 6tate that we are perfectly satisfied with our present status 
and success, though we are still ambitious, and hope by con- 
tinued industry and fair dealing to merit the fullest measure 
of praise and emolument which it is possible to secure. In a 
few days we shall publish some substantial testimony of the 
geographical area over which our Forest and Stream 
and Rod and Gun spreads itself, in the shape of a printed 
list of several thousand towns which the paper reaches by mail. 
THE 
LONDON FIELD— THE FIFTIETH 
VOLUME. 
That worthy and universally respected President of the 
United States, the late Abraham Lincoln, sagely, but with 
childlike simplicity, remarked, in one of his Messages, that it 
is “easier to pay a small sum than a large one.” Adopting 
this maxim, which is peculiarly apposite to these hard times, 
we have decided henceforward to render monthly bills for 
standing advertisements. We trust our advertising patrons 
will apply Mr. Lincoln’s maxim practically, and find from 
experience that it is mathematically correct. 
Yellowstone Park.— At the meeting of the National Asso- 
ciation at Nashville, last fall, a committee was appointed 
to draw up plans for the protection of the Yellowstone Na- 
tional Park. The members, who are Professor Comstock, 
Major Powell, Lieutenant Wheeler and Professor llaydeD, 
have been in conference with Professor Henry, of the Smith 
sonian, and are now endeavoring to secure an appropriation 
from Congress for the protection of the Park. We hope that 
this important matter may receive from our Washington legis- 
lators the con8iderati >n it surely merits. The course of Con- 
gress toward this project should be neither hesitating nor 
dnubtful. Prompt and efficient action is called for. A suit- 
able appropriation, judiciously applied, for the protection of 
this national park from the defacings and ravagings of unprin- 
cipled vandalism, will insure for the future a domain of natu- 
ral beauty, which, once destroyed, no tardy effort can replace. 
In the best possible taste, our great English contemporary, 
the London Field, tells its history : 
On the first Saturday in January, 1853, was published the 
initial number of the Field, and the last issue df the paper, 
bringing the year 1877 to a close, completed the fiftieth volume 
and the twenty-fifth year. The Field, in giving a review of 
the publications in England devoted to cultivating a taste in 
manly exercises and in the sports of the field, mentions that 
John Wheble, a bookseller, in 1792, associated with John 
Wilkes and Home Tooke, wrote the Middlesex Journal , 
which, purporting to give but a dry analysis of parliamentary 
debates, under the leadership of the fiery Horae Tooke, occa- 
sionally indulged in flaming lampoons. The Middlesex Jour- 
nal, riven by the parliamentary lightning of the day, was 
killed, hut Wheble originated in October, 1792, the Sporting 
Magazine, or, as it was described, “A Monthly Calendar of the 
Transactions of the Turf and Chase, and every other Diversion 
Interesting to the Man of Pleasure and Enterprise." For a 
quarter of a century, though Wheble knew nothing about 
horse, fox, hound, rod or gun, the Sporting Magazine, under 
his direction, was the leading authority. On our book- 
shelves there reposes to-day many a volume of this old publi- 
cation. The paper is blue; the imprint now of a rusty 
brown. Occasionally, half reverentially we dust off a vol- 
ume, and have now and then given in this journal extracts 
from its pages. The Sporting Magazine contains a great deal 
of the P. R., which has the same interest to us now as had 
the gladiatorial combats of yore. W hat is not bo nice, how- 
ever, are compilations from crim. con. cases of the time. 
Thank goodness, to-day such purulent matter has been ex 
punged from general literature, and no longer caters to a 
depraved taste. Wheble, dying in 1820, the Pittmans carried 
on the magazine. Now arose the most brilliant writer on 
sporting topics, on horse and hound, that lias ever adorned 
these subjects. Apperley rode as well as he wrote, and under 
the nom de plume of “Nimrod” (Ohl much-abused pseudo 
nyml) produced those three superb essays— “The Chase,’’ 
“The Turf" and “ The Road ’’—which are as famous to-day 
as when they appeared many a loDg year ago in the ponderous 
Quarterly. The Fidd tells us how the ore in this mine has 
SHEEP RAISING IN TEXAS AND COLO- 
RADO. 
S OME weeks ago there appeared in this paper some few re. 
marks on the availability of Texas and Colorado as a 
pasturage ground for sheep. Therein we stated that this vital 
interest, the production of wool, was^destined to become in 
time one of the great leading businesses of the Southwestern 
country. Since the publication of this article in the Forest 
and Stream and Rod and Gun, we have received a very large 
correspondence from various portions of the country, asking 
for further information on the subject of sheep raising. At 
the same time the paper has been the recipient » num- 
ber of applications from persons desirous of purchasing ranches 
in Texas and Colorado. In the present number will be found 
the first of a series of letters on this subject, written expressly 
for TnK Forhst and Stream, by Mr. S. Nugent Townsend, 
the well-known special correspondent of the London Field. 
Mr. Townsend ha9 devoted a great deal of time and attention 
to this matter, having visited all the best portions of Texas 
and Colorado, mainly for the purpflfee of obtaining reliable 
data. 
From the letters we have received from many parties now 
actively engaged in sheep raising, we can state that quite uni- 
versally our correspondents are highly pleased with their busi- 
ness. Of course, a certain amount of caution and judgment is 
necessary before catering into any novel pursuit. Now, with- 
out casting any false glimmers around this business of sheep 
raising, which is simply a practical one, requiring thrift and 
enterprise, we still believe that at the present moment it offers 
many advantages. 
Before investing then in a ranche, it would be wise for per- 
sons to visit the country and judge for themselves. Questions 
of drought, of rain-fall, methods of transportation, proximity 
of a market, salubrity of climate, particular advantages of 
certain breeds of sheep, should all he studied. Certain ideas 
which belong to people who have lived iu cities must be dis- 
carded. There is no necessity for thinking, however, that life 
in Texas or Colorado must he necessarily a rough one. People 
mostly build their own nests, and do make their own surround- 
ings. Life in the Southwest is no more lawless than it is in 
New York. Exaggerated stories run their course, and are 
sometimes wonderfully enlarged on, when, in reulity, if sifted 
out, such wonderful narrations are found to have no possible 
truth about them. If, then, dress coats and lustroijg hoots, 
white neckties and the frivolities of a somewhat effete social 
condition do not exist in Texas and Colorado, to replace these 
there is no end of honest work, and bluff, hearty hospitality. 
Drones are out of place any where. If an industrious man 
should go to Texas or Colorado, he will find in sheep raising a 
fairly lucrative and healthy occupation. If there he no “mil- 
lions iu it," at least it will afford him an honorable means of 
support, and may impart to a body impaired by the unwhole- 
some life in the cities a sound constitution and physicul hap- 
piness, which is worth more than all tho money in the world. 
As an aid to those wishing to select lands in Texas and Colo- 
rado, and to avail themselves of the best and most comfortable 
means of going thereto, the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Rail- 
way Company, with its customary accuracy and enterprise, 
has prepared a railroad map which shows not only the best 
grazing lands in the State, but the lumber, sugar, cotton, grain 
and mineral districts, which they will furnish on application. 
