Jan. 1,3, 1912.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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The Result of Over a Century’s Experience 
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“Pioneer Ponder MaKprs of America 
ESTABLISHED 1802 (gUPD^ Wilmington, Del. 
colored, and had a small black spot near end of 
the second half of dorsal fin. 
Hundreds of people came to see Jack and 
can vouch for the truth of this statement. If 
there are any doubting Thomases, let them write 
to any business man of Chattanooga, and if he 
accidentally strikes one wdro did not see Jack, 
with very little trouble he can find hundreds 
who did. Jack was very tame and appeared to 
like being fondled and taken up in the hand, 
He knew me and w'ould not go to strangers. 
H. G. S.VUNDERS. 
BILTMORE FOREST SCHOOL. 
Darmstadt. Germany, Dec. 10 .—Editor Forest 
and Stream: Here tve are! Darmstadt lies in 
the midst of the woods. The woods are owned, 
largely, by the city itself. There are pineries 
to the west, extending from Darmstadt toward 
the Rhine—ten miles distant—all established 
artificially on poor bare sandy lands, unfit for 
remunerative agriculture. 
The old stands of pines, containing from 
10,000 to 15,000 feet board measure per acre, 
were raised, we are told, from scattered pine 
cones. Bands of sheep were driven over the 
ground thus “planted.” It seems as if the sheep 
had pressed the pine seed into the ground when 
it dropped from the pine cones. 
I he stands of pine in the pole stage, es¬ 
tablished some fifty years ago, were raised from 
seeds planted. They excel in long, clean and 
straight boles. The youngest stands were 
raised, usually, from small germs or seedlings, 
planted to the tune of sixteen thousand per acre. 
Such planting is a cheap matter, the germs 
costing no more than ten cents per thousand 
to produce. 
Frequently these germs are planted in rows 
alternating with rows' of potatoes, so that the 
owner obtains, for a few years at least, some 
agricultural revenue from soil enriched by a 
preceding generation of timber. 
Our most extensive side trip was an ex¬ 
cursion to the Spessart Mountains, near Darm¬ 
stadt, in the heart of which we have spent a 
full week at a place known as Rohrbrunn, where 
the Bavarian Kings are wont to hunt the wild 
boar. We did not have a chance to join in the 
sport, for lack of time, of rifles and also of in¬ 
vitations. 
The Spessart woods have their pasture prob- 
lern, analagous to the pasture problem in our 
national forests. Here, however, the pasture is 
exercised by hogs rather than by sheep and 
cattle. 
The Bavarian and Hessian foresters have 
been extremely kind to us, sacrificing much 
valuable time to our instruction in the woods. 
James W. Egnor, Jr., 
Class President. 
A YOUNG WOMAN’S PILGRIMAGE. 
A \ouNG Ohio lady who had become in¬ 
terested in the pathetic fate of the wild pigeons, 
found herself in Cincinnati a short time ago! 
and bethought herself of the report that the 
last known specimen of these vanished birds 
had been captive at the Zoo for many years. 
So she went to see it. 
“There was an errand in Cincinnati, so off I 
went and did the business and then had just a 
niy train.” she writes. 
Of course, I thought of the Zoo and the last 
wild pigeon. So I took a car and found that 
It was a long, long way. It was so dark when 
1 got there that the gates were closed, but a 
kind keeper was quite melted by my pathetic 
story of having come ’way from Dayton to see 
the pigeon, so he admitted me and told me to 
go up to the lion house, find the keeper and say, 
the boss said he could show the lady the 
pigeon.’ 
“I went into a dark house and instantly there 
was tremendous jabbering and two lions came 
running at me. I fled for the door and they 
after me. and outside they proved to be big and 
friendly cats. An Italian employe came along 
and told me I had got into the monkey house 
and waked them all up. He escorted me to 
the lion house and there we found ‘Jim,’ who 
lighted a lantern and silently took me to the 
enclosure where the pigeon was roosting. He 
blinked his eye and moved his head indifferently 
as if he knew he was an object of interest. A 
great placard on his cage gives the prize offer 
and story of the pigeons. They don’t know 
how old he is, but Jim said with respectful 
solemnity, ‘when he passes away the remains 
will go to Washington.’ 
“So I felt that it had not been a wild goose 
(but a wild pigeon) chase after all, and some¬ 
time I hope to go again by day and see the 
other animals.”—Saginaw Courier-Herald. 
THE LAST FURROW. 
Messrs. Ernst & Ernst, Public Accountants, 
have sent us a beautiful calendar, a reproduction 
of a painting by Thomas Moran. It is called, 
“The Last Furrow.” Through the long rays 
of the setting sun which tint the clouds with 
crimson and gold, the plowman is following 
his oxen over the last furrow of the day. The 
foreground is field and the background sky, 
and the picture conveys a tremendous feeling 
of space, in no sense interrupted by the cluster 
of houses in the right middle distance, from 
whose windows the evening lights are begin¬ 
ning to shine. It is a beautiful picture, and 
beneath it are printed four lines from Kipling. 
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