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Men I Have Fished With. 
Sketches of character and incident with rod and gun from 
childhood to manhood; from the killing of little fishes 
and birds-to a buffalo hunt. By Fred Mather. Illus¬ 
trated. Price, $2.00. 
It was a happy thought that prompted Mr. Fred Mather 
to write of , his fishing companions. The chapters were 
received with a warm welcome at the beginning, and have 
been of sustained interest. The “Men I Have Fished 
With” was among the most popular stories of papers ever 
presented to Forest and Stream readers. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
Modern Fishculture in Fresh 
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By Fred Mather, author of “Men I Have Fished With,” 
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AMERICAN 
DUCK SHOOTING 
By GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL 
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. No single gunner, however wide his experi¬ 
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[Jan. 19, 1907. 
ELEPHANT RANCHING. 
Recently we reproduced a paragraph from an 
English journal to the effect that elephant ranch¬ 
ing was about to be attempted in America and 
the statement is now confirmed by Forest and 
Stream, published in New York, which says that 
"it is proposed to try the experiment of breed¬ 
ing elephants on a Texas ranch. At any rate 
J. F. Adams has purchased several elephants and 
shipped them to his ranch near Valentine, Texas, 
and others are to be sent there from time to 
time for breeding purposes.” Apropos of this 
item of news the New York paper remarks that 
it would “seem a curious state of affairs if in 
years to come old world mammals, through care¬ 
ful propagation, ever become sufficiently abund¬ 
ant in this country to hunt as game.” We gather 
that Mr. J. F. Adams’ courageous enterprise has 
been suggested by the success which has attended 
ostrich farming in Florida and elsewhere; and 
that his scheme has for its immediate purpo.se 
the. supply of the demand for elephants ior ex¬ 
hibition .purposes. The experience gained dur¬ 
ing many centuries of elephant keeping in India 
is not, it must be admitted such as would en¬ 
courage any man to embark capital in elephant 
breeding as an industry. There are, if we may 
write without the book, some three or four cases 
of elephants having calved to tame bulls in this 
country, but these are no more than the ex¬ 
ceptions which go to prove a familiar rule; and 
while we ourselves should be sorry to invest any 
capital in Mr. Adams’ Texas venture, we do not 
dare to commit ourselves to confident predic¬ 
tion of failure. We do not discover. Valentine 
in our Times Atlas, but inasmuch as the vast 
area of that State lies north of the 30th parallel 
of latitude, we are justified in concluding that 
the scene of Mr. Adams’ experiment lies well 
north of the region where Asiatic elephants are 
to be found in a wild state or used for industrial 
purposes: Of course, the gentleman’s intention 
may be to employ African elephants. The general 
character of Texas and its climate approximate 
more nearly to the character and climate of the 
African elephant’s habitat than to those of the 
Asiatic species; but in this case Mr. Adams 
would seem to be multiplying the difficulties of 
his self-appointed task without necessity. He has 
first- to catch and tame African elephants before 
he can begin his stud operations; and we imagine 
that the work of creating a kheddah organiza¬ 
tion in, say the region north of Uganda, where 
elephants are plentiful, might appal even Ameri¬ 
can enterprise. 
In the absence of specific information the prob¬ 
abilities point to the employment of Asiatic ele- 
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