FOREST AND STREAM 
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FOREST AND STREAM 
Vol. LXXXII. No. 6 
February 7, 1914 
Two Ocean Pass Where Trout may Cross the Continental Divide. 
A Little Talk About Sport.By Theodore Gordon 
“A Close Call”.By A. N. Rogers 
Camping on Connecticut River.By Edward Cole 
Editorial . 
Foxes in Labrador . 
Fixtures . 
Is There Necessity for High Power Rifle for Deer?. 
Luck in Shooting. 
Manhasset Bay Yacht Club 
Shooting Wild Turkey in Mississippi. . . . By Dr. P. H. McNair 
The Popular English Setter.By Freeman Lloyd 
The Last Surviving Passenger Pigeon.By D. H. Eaton 
The New Automatic Pistol on the Border. 
By Q. M. Sergeant Milton Heckert 
R. Gilbert 
LONGING. 
BY FLORENCE HOOPER. 
Oh ! dashing wave—Oh! creamy crest 
Oh! sea mysterious—Deep unrest 
Seems ever constant in your breast. 
You call, you beckon, 
Cunning charms you flaunt 
In calm, in raging. 
Is it you I want? 
Deep silent wood, a scent of pine, 
Strange shaggy leaves of tangling vine, 
Cool, dusky aisles of giant design. 
Great forest monarchs 
Ever will you daunt 
Man’s blind invasion. 
Is it you I want? 
Stream and canyon, scarred mountain grim, 
Tree decked to waist, then snow to rim, 
You pierce the fleecy clouds and swim 
Aloof, dominant. 
Thus ever, memories haunt 
Me of your grandeur. 
Is it you I want? 
Wide dusty plain, pale sage grey green, 
Long boundless stretches sweeping clean 
To meet the sky, you ever seem 
Unhampered freedom. 
Lean, stark, lonely, gaunt. 
Your spell it enthralls me 
Is it you I want? 
The Kaibab and the Coconino national forests 
adjoin each other. Yet it takes from two to 
three days to go from one to the other across 
the Grand Canyon of the Colorado. 
FEBRUARY. 
BY A. L. L. 
The sun and north wind are just trying their best 
To find out if possible which is the boss; 
The lazy old 'possum crawls out of its nest, 
And the crows are discussing around a dead hoss. 
One finds the days are getting longer now; 
The sportsmen’s tales have been too often told; 
The fragrant skunk leaves tracks in mud and snow, 
And men swear less about the freezing cold. 
The Last Living Passenger Pigeon 
A Game Conservation Sermon Without Words 
“Forest and Stream,” upon receipt of 
ten cents to pay cost of package and post¬ 
age, will send to any address a reproduc¬ 
tion of the beautiful life size color illus¬ 
tration which forms the frontispiece of 
the issue of February 7th. This picture 
was made from a photograph taken at the 
Cincinnati Zoological Garden especially 
for “Forest and Stream,” and is true to 
life. The reproductions contain no ad¬ 
vertising or other matter beyond descrip¬ 
tive caption. 
A copy of this picture should hang in 
every club or private library, and should 
be distributed widely in schools or in Boy 
Scouts’ organizations, if only to impress 
on the rising generation the necessity of 
continued game conservation. 
One dozen pictures packed flat will be 
forwarded for $1.00. In lots of one 
hundred or more the price is $5.00 per 
hundred. 
Address “Forest and Stream,” 22 
Thames St., New York City. 
NOTES OF A CASUAL READER. 
A correspondent in northern Alberta writes 
me that the rabbits, which have been extremely 
numerous in that region of late, are now dying 
off rapidly under the influence of an epidemic 
which has attacked them with destructive virul¬ 
ence. It manifests itself in purulent sores ex¬ 
ternally, especially about the fore parts of the 
animal, and also along the larger intestines. 
These hares are largely used as food in the 
frontier towns, as well as among the Indians 
and rural settlers, but in Edmonton the Board 
of Health has for some time prohibited their 
sale in the markets of that city, and probably 
other 'towns have followed Edmonton’s example. 
It is stated that some physicians and veterinar¬ 
ians have pronounced the disease to be tubercu¬ 
losis. This seems to me improbable, however, 
and I cannot learn that the matter has been 
judged by a bacteriologist, as should be done if 
this suspicion is entertained. It is well known 
that there is a periodical increase and decrease 
of rabbits in northern Canada, at intervals of 
about seven years. The animals become exces¬ 
sively abundant, then die off until few are left, 
when they again rise in numbers until again 
very numerous. The nature of this epidemic 
is not well understood, and probably the pres¬ 
ent attack is not different from those which 
have preceded it. All rabbits, all the time, and 
especially the larger species, are subject to tape¬ 
worm—the tapeworm of the dog—which pro¬ 
duces watery cysts under the skin containing 
the hydatids, or generative bodies, of these 
worms; but the fatal contagious disease is sep¬ 
arate from this affliction. 
The war department is reforesting a large area 
near Fort Bayard, New Mexico, for use as an 
army hospital site. 
