ALBERT G. KUGK 
[ScootseoR TO N. J. PLUMB,] 
iVo. 32 Park Row, 
Opposite New Postoffice. NEW YORK. 
nCFORTBR or * 
Needles and Fisli-lloolts, 
A.KD DBALER IK AIX KINDS OT 
pishing Tackle, Gims, Revolvers, 
Skates and Sporting Goods. 
^ S. BARlffUM^ 
SYRACUSE, N. Y 
DMter In tU kinds of Sportsmen's goods. 
Guns, Revolvers, Fishing Tackle, Base 
Ball Supplies, &c., ' 
klso all kinds of ammnnition of the rery best onalitr* 
Muazle-Leading Guns altered to Breech 
Loading a specialty. 
Clark * Srei' ee, 
814 West Pratt street, Baltimore, Maryland. 
C. J. M.iYNARD & CO., 
DBALKRS IN SPECIMENS OF NATURAL HISTORY. 
We hare just receired a fresh supply of BIRD SKINS and EGGS 
as well as other objects of Natural History, from Florida and else 
where. Collectors will do well to send for our skin catalogue and 
make a selection at once, so as to secure the best of the lot. 
MOUNTED GAME BIRDS A SPECIALTY, 
WORKS ON NATURAL HISTORY FOR SALE. 
PICTURBS or GARB BIRDS ABD MAMMALS. 
SOMETHING NEW. 
Game Birds and Mammals, mounted medalion-like, to bang on 
(he walls of your dining room or ofBce. 
new bird trap. 
Just the thing to catch living birds for the cages or for mounting 
specimens. Price 75 cents ; all ready for use. 
Send stamp for the New Catalogue. 
Address C. J. MAYNARD & CO.. 
NEWTONVILLE. MASS. 
Dirigo Rural^ 
A live, wide-awake fresh, weekly paper devoted to our Home 
Indastrial interests. The paper for every fanner and mechanic. 
The friend ef the loboring classes, and a necessity in every home. 
It !• jnst the paper you want and have been looking for. Send for 
eaectmen nombere. 
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Everywhere. Steady employment; light, pleasant and profitable. 
Yon can make money and do good canvassing for the Rural. Try 
itl Address 
BIRIGO RURAL, Bangor, Maine. 
PRSCB. $3 per year in advai.re 
Poultry World. 
A splendid illustrated Monthly, devoted entirely to Poultry. $1.* 
a year. Two or more volumes furnished at $1.00 each. The third 
volume commaaces Jan. 1874. Address, POULTRY WORIJ) 
RaKfovd. noitn 
Seth Green Fish Ponds, 
Caledonia, Livingston Co., New York. 
A. 8. COLLINS, Propeibtob, 
(Successor to Seth Green ft A. S. Collins.) 
EgS«i Yry. Yearlings, etc., of Brook Trout, Salmon Trout, Sal- 
mon, White Fish, etc. Everything pertaining to fish culture. Send. 
for price List. 
’Field, Cover, and Trap Shooting, 
By Captain A. H. BOGARDUS, 
CHAMPION WING SHOT OF AMERICA. 
This book contains in sixteen cbai)tcr8 and about 400 pages, a fnll 
and instructive account of the experience acquired by Capiaui BO- 
GARDUS in twenty years with the gun in all seasons; the best 
methods of finding and killing with he dog and gun Pinnated 
Grouse, Quail, Ruffed Grouse, Woodwek, Plover, Snipe, Ac. 
Also, the most successful methods of shooting Wild Ducks, Wfld 
Geese and Cranes. And the best ways of Hunting Deer ana Shooting 
Wild Turkeys. 
Sporting ooes. their breeding and how to break them. 
Tto COMPLETE ART OF SHOOTING ON THE WING, with 
full and clear instructions for young suorUmen. by merns of which 
they may become crack shots. 
The habits, haunts and varied flight of birds in their seasons. 
Pigeon Shooting as an art, with the rules of the two Champion* 
Bhip Badges and report of champion matches. 
EDITED BY CHAS. J. FOSTER. 
Published by J. B FORD & Co., 27 Park Place, New York. For 
sale by all Booksellers and the leadlim Gunsmiths. Price f2. Bent 
by m«^ by the Pnblishers and by (laptain Bogardus, Elkhart, Lo- 
gan county, Illinois. Also for sale at tks America. Bpobtsmak 
office. 
WILBUR F. PARKER Editor and Proprietor 
Terms, Four Dollars a Year in Advance. 
Rates of Advertising : 
Single insertion. $3.00 per inch.oi 12 nonpareil lines; 
less than 1 inch 30cts. pr line. 
Liberal discount made on displayed and permanent 
advertisements. 
TA^ROD AND THE GUN w eoniir,uation of (he AMERICAN 
SPORTSMAN. It is the recognized organ of the Shooting 
and Fishing Fraternity, and has double the dreu^ 
lotion of any other paper among gunners 
and Jishers, 
It reaches first-class people and is a 
FIRST-CLASS ADVERTISING JIEDIL^. 
Nothing will ever be permitted to enter it8 columns of a low or 
vitiating tendency. Its articles are designed to elbvatb and rk- 
FiNB ihe eports of the field, and make them as they should be, 
the pursuits of cultivated gentlemen. The object of the paper s 
to spread a general and useful knowledge on all practical points 
relating to the Kennel and Field Management of Dogs. Ouns and 
Gunnery, Fish Breeding, and Natural History. 
A great want in this country has been a paper through which 
sportsmen could exchange their views, and discuss matters of gen- 
eral interest. To meet this, a large portion of space is set apart 
for Letters erok Sportsmen, and those who glance through our 
pages will see that this is fully appreciated. 
The body of the paper will be devoted to reports of Foreign and 
Home SporHng Events, Pigeon Matches, Field and Fishing Inci- 
dents and Adventures, and to the articles of our largeand unequaied 
corps of contributors. 
Itlis with no small pride that we are enabled te quote the names 
of men who stand in the foremost ranks as scientists, naturalists, 
and accomplished sportsmen w hose elegant and instructive articles 
have so long been a power in ibe columns of the American 
Sportsman. It is with satisfaction that w’e can quote their ap- 
proval of ourcourse, and announce a continuance of their very val- 
uable cooperation. 
PROF. S. F. BAIRD, 
Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 
United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries. 
Washington, D. C. 
PROF, THEO. GILL. 
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 
PROF. O. C. MARSH. 
Yule College, New uaven. 
HON. J. D. CATON, L. L. D. 
Late Chief Justice of Hllnois. 
Ottawa 111. 
DR. ELLIOTT CODES, U. S. A. 
■ Surgeon and Naturalist to Northern Boondarr Snrvey. 
Washington, D. G. 
DR. H. C. YARROW. 
Snrgeon and Naturalist to the United States Exploring Expedition. 
Washington, D. C. 
ROBERT RIDGWAY. 
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C 
DR. J. B. HOLDER. 
Curator, American Museum, Central Park, New York. 
C. J. MAYNARD. 
Newtonville, Mass. 
W. A. CONKLIN, 
Snperintendant Menagerie, Central Park, New York 
SETH GREEN, 
Rochester, N. Y. 
A. S. COLLINS, 
Caledonia, N. Y. 
DR. ROTHROCK, 
W asbington. 
J. A. MILNER, Esq., 
Washington. 
FRED MATHER, 
Honeoye Falls, N.Y. 
THADDEUS NORRIS, 
Philadelphia, Penn. 
DR. JARED P. KIRTLAND, L.L.D. 
East Brockoort Ohio. 
DR. I. I. HAYES. 
The Arctic Explorer, New York. 
DR. T. S. GARLICK. 
Author of “Fiih Cnlinre,” Bedford, Ohio. 
DR. THOS. M. BREWER. 
Boston, Mass. 
H. W. HEKSHAW. 
Ornithologist of Wheeler’s Survey. 
JOHN BUM STEAD. 
Aathor of "On the Wing," Boston, Mass. 
ISAAC McLELLAN, 
T%e Foot Bportemon, Orsenpoint, I* 1. 
LIVINGSTON STONE 
Charlestown, N. H. 
FRZD. J. ABBEY & CO., 
Importers and Manufacturers of Brtech and Mnse>e-loadlng 
OtuxiSj, iRifles^ istols^ 
Fishing Tackle and General Sport- 
ing Goods, 
Bad shooting gnns made to shoot well. Breech-loading guns can 
l^fire, at from §40 00 to 1:200.00. Our own make, (F. J. Abbey 
& Co.’s patent), proved superior for close shootina and penelraSots 
to any other make at the recent Illinois gun trials, Fbom S150 00 
TO $400.00, WITH Implements and Cases Complete. Shells loaOed 
to order. i 
NO. 43 SOUTH CL ABE STREET, 
51-tf CHICAtJO, Illinois. 
E. O. O PL E E IST ’ S 
BREECH- L OA HERS, 
at Ijaufe #un €Inal 
IMPORT.ANT— The above are now tent and delivered frea, 
Pricci below include the gun, duty and expreae, and every cost. 
Eclipse Breech-loader, $100. 
Nothing to equal it in the market, under nearly double the price. 
Pricee, ^^70, $80, $100, $125, $150, $200, and a splendid special extra 
quality $250, gold. Order direct from the manufacturer, and so 
get full value for your money. Circulars mailed free Irom 
87, High St., Cheltenham, England. 
$4,100,00 GASI^ 
GR.\1\1» NA nOiML SHOOTIiVG TOURXAMEXT 
AT 
NoftliernOliio FaifGfoundsTfollingPafF, 
Cleveland, Oliio, 
COMMENCING 
Thursday^ June lO^ 
And Continuing 11th, 12th and 14th, 1875. 
Under the management of 
S. H. TURRILL of Chicago, III., and 
W. J. FARRAR of Cleveland, Ohio. 
Open To Tlie 'W'orld, 
With the exceptions of Capt. A. H. Bogaidns, Abraham Kleinman, 
Ira A. Paine, J. Ward of Canada, and J. Close of Pontiac, Mich. 
Entrance for the first three days, $10 each day. Entrance for the 
last day $30. All Purses to fill or be pro-rated. Birds extra. 
Admission to the Grounds 50cts each to all. 
All Shooting to be from Parker’s Patent Self-Closing 
H. and T. Plunge Traps. 
First Hay, Thursday, June 10, 
$730.00. 
CLASS SHOOTING— TEN SINGLE RISES. 
First prize, Cash $250.00 
Second “ “ 200.00 
Third “ “ 150.00 
Fourth ‘‘ “ 100.00 
Fifth " “ 50.00 
Second Hay, Friday, June 11. 
$8.50.00. 
CLASS SHOOTING— TEN SINGLE RISES. 
First prize Cash $300.00 
Second “ “ 250 00 
Third “ “ 150 00 
Fourth “ “ 100.00 
Fifth “ “ 50.00 
Third Hay, Saturday, June 11, 
$900,00. 
CLASS SHOOTING— TEN SINGLE RISES. 
First prize, Casli $350.00 
Second “ " 250.00 
Third “ “ 150.00 
Fourth “ “ 100.00 
Fifth “ “ 5000 
Fourth Hay, Monday, June 14, 
$1,.500.00. 
CLASS SHOOTING— FIFTEEN SINGLE RISES. 
First prize. Cash $500 00 
Second “ “ 400.00 
Third •' “ 300.00 
Fourth “ “ 200 00 
Fifth “ “ 100.00 
Fo r further particulars address ■’IBJ 
W. J. FARRAR, 
147 Superior St., Cleveland, Ohio. 
