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FOREST AND STREAM 
Dec. 21, 1912 
Published Weekly by the 
Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 
Charles Otis, President. 
W. G. Beecroft, Secretary. S. J. Gibson, Treasurer. 
127 Franklin Street, New York. 
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recognized medium of entertainment, instruction and in¬ 
formation between American sportsmen. The editors 
invite communications on the subjects to which its pages 
are devoted, but, of course, are not responsible for the 
views of correspondents. Anonymous communications 
cannot be regarded. 
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THE OBJECT OF THIS JOURNAL 
will be to studiously promote a healthful in¬ 
terest in outdoor recreation, and to cultivate 
a refined taste for natural objects. 
—Forest and Stream, Aug. 14, 1873. 
EDWARD FARNAM TODD. 
Edward Farnam Todd died Dec. 16 , 1912 . 
Mr. Todd was one of the best informed men in 
this country on fresh water fishing. As an 
anglers’ statistician he had no superior. He has 
for many years been one of the experts on 
the Forest and Stream anglers’ staff. 
NEW HAMPSHIRE DEER RECORDS. 
One by one different States are coming to 
realize that the easiest way to keep an inventory 
of game within its borders is to subtract the 
number killed during the open season from the 
number on hand at the opening of the season. 
It is the simplest kind of bookkeeping. We have 
just heard from Charles B. Clarke, of the New 
Hampshire Fish and Game Commission, that the 
commission has no way of “knowing anything 
about the number of deer killed during the open 
season.” It is, however, a source of great satis¬ 
faction to note progress, for Mr. Clarke says, 
“We shall try to perfect our law at this session 
of the Legislature.” Every prospect pleases, even 
though it may have a long ride and a rough trip 
through the Legislature. 
REASON AND INSTINCT. 
All animals, including man, are possessed of 
both reason and instinct. The lower animals are 
of course less developed in reasoning power than 
man. But the difference is in degree only, and 
not in kind. 
Many intelligent apes, dogs and ants have a 
cerebral capacity which, in some cases at least, 
is little short of human, or at all events of that 
of savages and children. It is all nonsense, and 
without any scientific warrant, to deny the rea¬ 
soning power to the lower animals, and the 
merest tyro in the study of physiology ought to 
know that man has no monopoly of this quality. 
That the human family possesses instinct as 
well as lower animals is shown in the many 
things infants do “naturally”; closing one’s eyes 
suddenly to avoid a blow, or other injury threat¬ 
ening that organ; changing one’s position during 
sleep, so as to avoid an unpleasant attitude, etc. 
Then as to lower animal intelligence, it may 
be asked, is it instinct or reason that makes an 
ant organize a highly complex community with 
a code of laws and executive officials to carry 
them out, and that in a manner that men might 
emulate to their own advantage? 
Man's ignorance and vanity prompt him to 
deny reason to his “poor relations” of the woods, 
the jungles and the fields, but in this twentieth 
century ideas of this sort have only an anti¬ 
quarian interest, even if they have that; and old 
errors, no matter how venerable, must go by the 
board. 
OUR NEW DEPARTMENT. 
The departments of this journal are in that 
healthy condition where each several department 
editor is forever wrangling with all the others 
about space. Each one, every week, demands 
that fewer columns be given to his esteemed as¬ 
sociates and more to himself. There is a never- 
ending week’s end to week’s end the year round 
clamor by the Kennel editor for some of the 
space he declares to be “thrown away” on the 
Yacht man, and the Yacht man never tires of 
devising schemes, fair or foul, for appropriating 
some of the space over which the Trap editor 
stands guard with a shotgun. Every newspaper 
man will recognize that all this is just as it 
should be. It shows that the departments are 
alive. 
Now, all things working together for good, 
we have revived and added another department— 
“Archery.” This sport, which Forest and Stream 
was the first to support, fell by the wayside a few 
years ago. Recently its following has become so 
great, and its outdoor interest so strong that a 
medium for its. exploitation was needed. By 
virtue of prestige and ability to properly handle 
the news, we were selected as the mouthpiece 
of the National Archery Association. 
From now on, for all live news in archery, 
seek the department in this paper. 
Happy indeed is the sportsman who is mated 
with just the right companion for a shooting 
chum. In such a union the rules of matematics 
are thrown to the winds, for while twice one is 
two, and two guns may secure twice as much as 
one, the satisfaction two friends can get out 
of an excursion is ten-fold or a lnmdred-fold 
what may be given to one alone. To begin at 
the very beginning—and that is where the fun of 
an outing begins if at all—there is a deal more 
pleasure in planning and discussing the campaign 
with another who is to share it than there is in 
figuring it out alone. And to go on to the end 
of it—if the end ever comes while memory holds 
—recollections are fresher and clearer and dearer 
if there be two to remember and talk together of 
the field days of the past. In all these three 
phases of one’s outing—the anticipation, the re¬ 
alization and the retrospect—one needs a friend 
to share them, and by sharing each to increase it. 
Thus much of the satisfaction of field sports 
consists in the companionships they create and 
foster and cement. Take away from an outing 
this element of social intercourse and often there 
will be very little left. Some of the pleasantest 
and firmest friendship of ,a lifetime have been 
formed in the field. Some of the friends whose 
absences we most deplore, for whose deaths we 
sorrow most sincerely, are the friends and com¬ 
panions of the camp and field and stream and 
shore. For more than one gunner, old or young, 
the charm of his once favorite sport has van¬ 
ished, because he can no longer enjoy it in com¬ 
pany with one whose personality lent to it its 
chief fascination. 
m, 
Most men find solid satisfaction in showing 
the tangible testimonials of their luck in the 
field. They are not satisfied with the mere catch¬ 
ing of fish or bagging" of birds; they must bring 
them home to distribute to friends. This is one 
reason why the non-export fish and game laws 
bear heavily where they make no distinction be¬ 
tween game carried out by sportsmen as trophies 
of amateur skill and game shipped to market by 
professional shooters. The purpose of these 
statutes is excellent; their practical enforcement 
results in benefit to the game supply. But there 
is a happy medium between unrestricted traffic 
and absolute prohibition of game-carrying by 
sportsmen; Some privilege should be accorded 
the sportsman, but not unlimited license, for 
there are those whose greedy instincts require 
curbing. Eastern sportsmen who go west, to 
make pot-hunters of themselves there and kill 
barrels of birds and put them in cold storage to be 
smuggled to Brooklyn, say, in the winter, should 
have their thrifty schemes smashed by the laws 
and the wardens. 
K 
Society dictates from year to year that 
woman must change her coat by fitting her figure 
into a new corset model. As woman, suffra- 
getically speaking, is her own boss and un¬ 
questionably is the superior fraction of the 
family, we have no intention of combatting her 
right to alter her shape and likewise her coat 
to suit the dictates of Paris coatmakers. We 
do, however, object to fashion upsetting a stand¬ 
ard coat as worn by the Airedale terrier. In 
the kennel department in our last issue appeared 
a letter from E. M. Post, long standing and care¬ 
ful breeder of Airedales. We should like our 
readers to consider carefully Mr. Post’s con¬ 
tentions and write us according to conclusions 
reached after the reading. 
STILL AT THE TOP. 
AGATE LINES ADVERTISING FOR NOVEMBER. 
(Compiled by Printers’ Ink.) 
Publication Nov., 1912. 
1. Forest and Stream .20,791 
2. Outing .14,112 
3. Field and Stream .11,662 
4. Outdoor World . 8,036 
5. Outers’ Book . 7,952 
We were going to say something about this, 
but what’s the use; the figures tell the story. 
