AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
FOR THE 
Farm, Grarden, and Household. 
<< AGRICULTURE IS THE MOST HEALTHFUL, MOST USEFUL, AND MOST NOBLE EMPLOYMENT OF MAN."-Wa6hingio». 
obasge jijdd & co., i ESTABLISHED IN 1842. ( * 1 - 50 PBR annum, in advance. 
PUBLISHERS and PROPRIETORS. V J SINGLE NUMBER, 15 CENTS 
Office, 245 BROADWAY. ) PubUsned also in German at $1.50 a Year. ^Copies*, $5; lOfo, $12; 20o, more, $l'c a C. 
Entered according to Act of Congress in January, 1869, by Orange Jotd & Co., in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New- York. 
VOLUME XXVIII.— No. 2. 
NEW YORK, FEBRUARY, 1869. 
NEW SERIES— No. 2G5. 
ttfiBsBi 
[COPYRIGHT SECUr.ED.] 
" ADVERSITY ."—After a Painting by Verlat.- 
There are several ways in which, deer 
are killed. Some are simple butchery, and 
where deer are plenty may be practiced by hon- 
orable men for the sake of food; but no true 
sportsman ever kills wantonly or for the mere 
sake of killing. Men may get venison when 
the animal has no chance for its life, or next to 
none, and when they display no more skill than 
if they shot calves in a barn-yard; but they have 
no sport. The pleasure in hunting lies not in 
killing, but in the exercise of the art, the care, 
the precaution, a quick wit, a steady eye, and a 
close aim, while the result of a shot may be 
painful to a sensitive man, as he sees the stricken 
victim sobbing out the last gasps of its wild life. 
In deer-stalking or still-hunting the sports- 
man prefers a rifle throwing a heavy ball, for a 
deer shot even through the heart, with a light 
ball, will often run many rods, and perhaps get 
away or hide itself, only to die a lingering death. 
The shock produced by a large ball usually 
gives the hunter time to reload and come up 
before the animal revives. Still-hunting is not 
lying in wait at a spring or salt-lick where deer 
are known to come daily, which approaches the 
barn-yard style of sportsmanship. Silently fol- 
Draum and Engraved/or the American Agriculturist. 
lowing up the trail in the dew or light snow,and 
attacking the deer on its own feeding grounds, 
the hunter keeps himself to the leeward, for 
hearing and scent are very acute in the deer, 
approaches with extreme caution, and is usually 
obliged to fire at long range. The application 
of the title given by the distinguished artist 
is almost as inappropriate to the fallen buck as to 
the lucky hunter, whose appetite is no doubt 
sharpened to appreciate a juicy steak for his 
late supper ; but the bullet brings " adversity" 
indeed to the forlorn young doe, left alone, 
perhaps, even before the end of the honeymoon. 
