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FOREST AND STREAM 
June 21, 1913 
Published Weekly by the 
Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 
Charles Otis, President. 
W. G. Beeoroft, Secretary. W. J. Gallagher, Treasurer. 
127 Franklin Street, New York. 
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MANY MEN OF MANY MINDS. 
A West Virginia correspondent wrote the 
other day in criticism of the New England mode 
of fox hunting, which is to drive the fox by 
dogs within gun range and then to shoot it. The 
West Virginia view was that this was not sports¬ 
manlike, but that the better way was the one 
pursued in the South, of driving the fox with 
hounds until it is overtaken and killed by dog 
or huntsman. And in illustration of truly sports¬ 
manlike fox hunting, two famous cases were 
cited. In one thirty hounds started a fox in 
the morning and kept him going all day until 
eight dogs having stayed in to the finish, at the 
end of thirteen hours, the fox was overtaken 
and killed. In the other case cited three hounds 
having started a fox on a Saturday morning 
went .out of hearing of the hunters who had 
put them out, and ran the fox until sundown 
next day—Sunday—when, at a point of seventy- 
five miles from the start, being cheered 
on by three men who had been attracted by 
the cries of the chase, “the dogs quickened up 
a bit and caught the fox. All fell in a heap and 
could not be persuaded to move a step.” 
Whether the fox died of exhaustion or not is 
not told. In this case it appears that the sports¬ 
manship consisted in starting the dogs on the 
trail of the fox and leaving them to do the 
rest; to keep up the hunt through the night 
while the huntsman was asleep in his bed at 
home, and during Sunday while he was in 
church and enjoying his Sunday dinner and his 
siesta. It would be more nearly accurate to 
say, however, that while this incident affords an 
illustration of the extraordinary staying powers 
of fox and hound, it is not a typical Southern 
fox hunt, in which the hounds are followed by 
mounted huntsmen, and the enchantment of the 
sport is found in the glorious cross country 
riding. 
When a fox hunter, by which is meant the 
rider to hounds, contemplates the New England 
mode of hunting the game with dogs and gun— 
where the hunter concealed behind the stone 
wall shoots the fox when it comes within range 
—he very naturally decries and condemns the 
sport because it is in all respects so different 
from his own hunting. And on the other hand 
the fox hunter of the New England hills, where 
riding to hounds is unknown and for many rea¬ 
sons impracticable, makes an equally strong 
argument in advocating his methods as the one 
best adapted to local conditions and affording 
abundant satisfaction in its successful, or on 
occasion unsuccessful, pursuit. 
TRAPSHOOTING AS A GAME CONSERVER 
Has is ever occurred to you, who are in¬ 
terested in protection of game, to what extent 
the development of trapshooting works toward 
bird and animal preservation? It is a fact, un¬ 
open to question, that a man who has good health, 
is largely carnivorous, and that the animal in 
human nature compels the destruction of some¬ 
thing. Sometimes the destroying of the social 
system, sometimes the killing of birds and ani¬ 
mals, but always destruction of one kind or an¬ 
other. 
Practice with revolver originated through 
desire to kill in case of attack by the marauding 
human. Rifle practice was first taken up with 
intent to kill animals, and finally trapshooting at 
clay targets was to whet skill’s edge for bird 
shooting. As the man in each of these lines 
of marksmanship became more and more expert, 
he sought competition among his fellows—the 
pistol shooter forgot the burglar, the rifle man 
sought other marksmen for a match, the trap- 
shooter became infatuated with the high art re¬ 
quired to break “a hundred straight,” and his 
interest in field shooting became a long deferred 
hope, as he went from place to place in quest 
of a match at clay discs, and before he knew 
it, that vacation he had intended to devote to bird 
shooting had been spent in “killing” the arti¬ 
ficial, and conservation had gained a hundred¬ 
fold. The desire to destroy had been satisfied 
at no cost to nature, and at a handsome profit 
to the manufacturer of clay targets, arms and 
ammunition. Men had benefited in health and 
skill, their red corpuscles increased immeasur¬ 
ably and destroyed no living thing, whereas, had 
it not been for the present perfection of traps 
and clay pigeons and the promotion efforts of 
the Interstate Association in making trapshoot¬ 
ing attractive, the fields and bird covers during 
shooting time would be over-run with gunners 
seeking to satisfy the animal—to destroy for the 
sake of destroying. And so it is that the in¬ 
animate bird has to a great extent superseded 
the animate. 
AN ILL FLOOD THAT BRINGS NO GOOD. 
To paraphrase Walter Floyd, of Indiana, 
“It is an ill flood that does nobody any good.” 
When the waters of the rivers tributary to the 
Ohio were submerging Dayton, Columbus, 
Hamilton and other cities, the farmers living 
below the falls at Louisville spent the most of 
their time chuckling, for although properties 
were flooded, alluvial deposits of greater value 
than any purchased from dealers in the form 
of fertilizers would come to them from the tur¬ 
bulent waters. 
When the muddy waters of the Ohio swept 
over their farms, the agriculturists of Southern 
Indiana camped upon high ground, lighted their 
pipes and smoked the product of the hillsides 
across the river without a thought other than 
that an observing Providence had provided an 
unexpected boon. 
Corn was knee high in two weeks, accord¬ 
ing to report. Nothing approaching the remark¬ 
able growth of vegetation along the Ohio River 
has been recalled within the memory of anyone 
now living. The big flood which swept away the 
habitations of the people of Columbus, Dayton 
and Hamilton, brought to the people of down 
river points fertilization of inestimable value. 
And SO' the wind was tempered to the shorn 
lamb. 
VACATION. 
The early spring trout fishing is over, and 
summer trips are now beginning. Yachtsmen 
have fitted up their boats, and now every spare 
moment is spent on the water, preparing for 
races or cruises to take place during the next 
three or four months. Until the summer is well 
over, the sports of the water will be the only 
ones presenting themselves to most readers of 
Forest and Stream, but close upon them will 
follow trips into the mountains for big game, 
the strenuous climb after mountain sheep and 
goats, the careful stalk of the sleek deer and 
the high-fronted bull elk. As the heat of sum¬ 
mer wanes, men will begin to get their dogs in 
condition, and the covers of the East and the 
prairies of the West will be crossed and re¬ 
crossed by the active ranging beauties, and the 
flat crack of the shotgun, with its smokeless 
powder, will awaken echoes all over the land. 
Later still, when sharp frosts have killed vege¬ 
tation North and South, and the air is bracing 
and the ground rings hard under the foot, quail 
and ruffed grouse will be followed, and from 
the North will begin to appear the wildfowl, 
sometimes in such numbers as to almost darken 
the skies, and then as it grows colder and 
colder, and winter is at hand, the duck shooter’s 
time has come, and hidden in blind or battery 
he takes toll of the swift-flying birds that dart 
to his decoys. 
There is a wonderful variety of fur and 
feather and fin in this broad land of ours, and 
if population, civilization and progress have 
covered much of it so thickly that there is no 
longer place there for the wild creatures that 
we love to pursue, yet there still remain many 
spots, far from the haunts of man, where good 
shooting and fishing may be had. In all direc¬ 
tions the country is traversed by railroad lines, 
anxious to give good service to the sportsman, 
and to induce him to travel over their roads. 
Of steamship lines the same is true. 
THE RESULT OF RESULTS. 
A VALUABLE lesson can be learned from the 
following figures, which show how Forest and 
Stream advertisers, after years of experience 
and an expenditure of thousands of money, 
class the sportsmen’s magazines as advertising 
mediums. The table, compiled from Printers’ 
Ink, gives the total number of agate lines of 
advertising carried by five outdoor magazines 
during May: 
Publication. May, 1913. 
1. Forest and Stream.17,099 
2. Outing Magazine .16,632 
3. Field & Stream.15,064 
4. Outer’s Book .12,9.36 
5. Outdoor World . 9,984 
