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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[July 29, 1911. 
Resorts for Sportsmen. 
RIPOGENUS LAKE CAMPS 
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A New Country is here opened up for Sportsmen just half way down the “West Branch” 
Canoe Trip; 40 miles by steamer from Greenville to Northeast Carry; twenty miles to Ches- 
uncook by canoe, twenty miles more to camps by large motor boat making 15 miles an hour. 
Fine trip made in a day and a half from Greenville. Home Camps comfortable with 
spring beds, etc. Back Camps and Lean-tos cover a great tract of Wilderness, for 
Sportsmen desiring to go far back in the woods. Good living everj where. Grouse, 
Ducks and Black Bear. We guarantee to give you Trout Fishing that is un¬ 
equalled and Moose and Deer Hunting that is unsurpassed. Choice of the 
sportiest quick water in Maine, for the stream fisherman, or the most placid of pond and 
lake fishing for those who prefer it, where brook trout up to 6 pounds (larger if you know 
how) rise to the fly all summer. 
May 1 to December 1, CHESUNCOOK P. O.. MAINE 
December 1 to May 1, GRANT FARM P. 0„ MAINE 
Ralph Bisbee, 
NEWFOUNDLAND. 
Do you want good salmon or trout fishing? Or to shoot 
the lordly caribou? Apply J. R. WHITAKER, 
Bungalow, Grand Lakes, Newfoundland. 
Nursing vs. Dosing 
A Treatise on the Care of Dogs in Health and Disease. 
By S. T. Hammond (“Shadow”), Author of “Train¬ 
ing vs. Breaking.” 161 pages. Cloth. Price, $1.00. 
Mr. Hammond believes that more dogs are killed by 
injudicious doctoring than by disease, and the present 
work is a protest against the too free use of medicine 
when dogs are sick. The author has given special at¬ 
tention to many of the troubles which especially afflict 
small dogs kept in the house, and likely to suffer from 
lack of exercise and from over-feeding; and boys and 
girls owning dogs—as well as children of larger growth 
—may profitably study and ponder this volume. 
Contents: Importance of Nursing. Cleanliness 
Out-of-Sorts Dam. Puppies. Diet. Other Food- 
Kennel and Exercise. Common Ailments. Teething 
Diarrhea. Convulsions. Epilepsy. Distemper. Ec¬ 
zema. Need of Proper Care. Sour Stomach. Vermin 
Canker of the Ear. Mange. The Nervous System. 
Abscesses. Colic. Worms. 
FOREST AND STREAM. PUBLISHING CO. 
MODERN FISH CULTURE 
In Salt and Fresh Water 
By FRED MA THER 
This book covers the entire field, including the cul¬ 
ture of trout, salmon, shad, the basses, grayling, white- 
fish, pike, pickerel, carp, muscalonge, smelt, crappies, 
perch, alewives, sturgeon, lobsters, with chapters on 
parasites, diseases and enemies of fish, tables of eggs, 
working of ponds, fish characteristics. Cloth, illustrated. 
Postpaid, $2.00. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING COMPANY 
TRAINING vs. BREAKING 
Practical Dog Training; or, Training vs. Breaking. 
By S. T. Hammond. To which is added a chapter on 
training pet dogs, by an amateur. Cloth, 165 pages. 
Price, $1.00. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING COMPANY 
Manual of the Canvas Canoe 
By F. R. WEBB 
Tn a thoroughly interesting and readily understood 
manner it tells how to build cruise and live in a canvas 
canoe. Contents—Practical Construction, Cost, Specifica¬ 
tions, Plans and Patterns, Putting on the Canvas, Paint¬ 
ing, Finishing, Camp Equipment, Camp Cookery, Cruis¬ 
ing and Camping, Plans and Working Drawings. Cloth, 
illustrated. Postpaid, $1.25. t 
FOREST AND STREAM PUB’ SHING CO. 
= THE PHEASANT = 
By W. B. Tegetmeier 
The natural history and practical management of pheas¬ 
ants. A complete and practical work for sportsman and 
market breeder. Illustrations from life with colored 
plates and numerous full-page reproductions. Cloth. 
Postpaid, $3.50. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
Manual of Taxidermy for Beginners 
By C. J. MAYNARD 
A complete guide in collecting and preserving birds, 
animals, fishes, and reptiles. Implements, supplies, di¬ 
rections, formulas, etc., all plain and readily understood. 
Cloth, illustrated. Postpaid, $1.00. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBUSHING CO. 
Canvas Canoes and How to Build Them 
By PARKER B. FIELD 
The book gives very precise instructions by which a 
man with ordinary mechanical bent may build a service¬ 
able canoe at slight cost—a plan and all working direc¬ 
tions. Paper, 50 cents. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
CANOE AND CAMP COOKERY 
By SENECA 
A handy book for the guidance of campers, particularly 
for those who care for variety in camp fare. Cloth, 
illustrated. Postpaid, 50 cents. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING COMPANY 
For years and years the undergrowth has been 
the natural habitat and breeding grounds of 
deer, bear and other wild fur-bearing animals, 
and in the early days was the resting place of 
thousands of passenger pigeons. The island has 
always been noted for its wealth of game and 
birds, and on account of the natural bent of the 
owner will always be a haven for birds as long 
as the owner lives. 
TAMING THE BOY HUNTER. 
It is not the fault of the freckle-faced youth 
in knickerbockers that he goes about robbing 
nests and killing birds. The fault lies with those 
who have failed to train him by some method 
more effective than merely laying down a crim¬ 
inal code and telling him what the penalties are. 
and that they will he applied without mercy if 
he violates its provisions. The beauty of the 
plumage or notes of the varieties of birds found 
in the region and their functions as insect de¬ 
stroyers might be dwelt upon in the elementary 
course. Popular errors as to the destructive¬ 
ness of certain varieties of small birds of prey 
might be corrected with the progress of instruc¬ 
tion. For example, most of us were taught a 
generation ago to regard all hawks and owls 
as our natural enemies, but naturalists now find 
that some of them live chiefly upon field mice 
and other undesirables, and rarely, or never at¬ 
tack the poultry yard. 
A wide field of absorbing and humanizing 
literature might be drawn upon for the ad¬ 
vanced course, and in addition to the wealth of 
appropriate prose there is a good deal of the 
product of the pens of nature-loving poets that 
might be employed to develop an appreciation 
of the charm of the country and a genuine 
sympathy with the first families of the forest. 
The popular idea that wild life must naturally 
give way before civilization is a popular idea 
only in western countries where there has been 
no moral force operating to prevent the ex¬ 
termination of species of birds and animals that 
should be encouraged to survive and allowed to 
multiply unmolested. The schoolboy who 
shoots a cardinal with an air rifle or Flobert 
gun, or kills his neighbor’s tame squirrel with 
a stone, is not vicious, but he is ill educated. 
His energies are misdirected for lack of wise 
direction. To educate him properly would do 
more good than all the law that could be piled 
upon statute books of legislators who take no 
interest in such laws and enact them in re¬ 
sponse to the activity of members of Audubon 
societies, upon whom they look as harmless 
but impractical persons who should be humored, 
although the measures they are backing can not 
be taken seriously.—Louisville Courier Journal. 
TREES OF AGATE AND TOPAZ. 
The petrified trees in Arizona that are of red 
moss agate and amethyst and smoky topaz and 
agate are nearly or entirely transparent and so 
beautifully preserved that all the veins and even 
the bark can be plainly seen. The hardened 
dewdrops of this enchanted wood are purple 
and amethyst and topaz crystals such as one 
traveler found in the heart of an ancient king 
of the forest. 
In an outlying part of the forest are different 
logs. They are perfectly opaque and tinted in 
soft browns and grays. They are partly covered 
by a great deposit of limestone and strange 
bluish clay, whose depth shows how many mil¬ 
lions of years they have been there. 
The most striking part of the forest is called 
Chalcedony Park. Here is the greatest number 
of petrified trees found in any one place in the 
world. One of them has fallen across a deep 
canon 50 feet wide, thus forming the only 
bridge of solid agate in existence. 
The wood of these trees makes beautiful orna¬ 
ments when polished, but it is so hard to cut 
that even modern methods find it extremely 
difficult to saw through it.—Raja Yoga Mes¬ 
senger. 
The Game Book 
STANDARD BIG GAME MEASUREMENTS 
Every man wants to compare his trophy with those of other big-game hunters. 
But comparisons are useless unless there is a fixed standard. 
The game book of the Boone and Crockett Club, the foremost organization of 
hunters of American big-game supplies this. Compiled by J. H. Kidder, it provides 
directions for standard measurements of the large game animals of America, with 
spaces carefully arranged for complete data regarding the kill, locality, time, con¬ 
ditions, etc. 
It is handsomely and durably bound pocket size. It is an invaluable record 
for every man who goes into the wild for sport with the rifle, a handy book, a 
camp companion, and a library reminder of days afield. Leather. 
Postpaid, $1.50 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING COMPANY, 127 Franklin Street, NEW YORK 
