Jan. 26, 1907.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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A Famous Sportsman. 
The excellent portrait of the Hon. Jesse 
j! Sherwood, published herewith, will confer a 
pleasure upon thousands of devotees of the dog 
and gun who will gaze upon it. Provincial, 
indeed, is he who does not know Mr. Sherwood 
1 personally, or through his gentle writings. 
Mr. Sherwood began breeding actively in the 
70s, and has been identified as a breeder, owner, 
patron of bench shows and field trials, more or 
less, ever since. Through the turbulent times 
which marked the adoption of the imported 
setter and the retiring of the native setter as 
field trial favorites, in the late 70s and early 80s, 
Mr. Sherwood's writings in the sportsmen’s 
journals made for instruction, tolerance, fair¬ 
ness and good fellowship, traits which are 
natural to him and which endear him to his 
thousands of friends and hold their esteem and 
loyalty ever. He is a hopeless man indeed, in 
whom Mr. Sherwood fails to find some good 
traits, and it is not of record that such a man 
ever existed. His optimism impels him to take 
the happy view that nothing is so bad but what 
it might be worse, and nothing so good but 
what it might be better. 
He is a busy man, being vice-president of 
the National Live Stock Commission Co., Chi¬ 
cago, a mammoth concern in the live stock 
trade; yet he forsakes business, for a time, when 
the field trials are in order, and when the 
shooting is good and lawful. 
His most renowned dog, of national fame, is 
Champion Jessie Rodfield’s Count Gladstone, 
j whelped Sept. 26, 1901. Color, white, orange 
and ticked. Sire: Lady’s Count Gladstone, 
Count Gladstone IV. (Count Noble—Ruby’s 
Girl)-—Dan’s Lady (Dan Gladstone—Lily Bur¬ 
gess); dam, Jessie Rodfield, Rodfield (Antonio 
—Nelly Hope)—Maud Gladstone (Dan Glad¬ 
stone—Gladstone Sue). Breeder: J. A. Jlrown, 
Chariton, Iowa. Winnings: Third, Eastern 
Derby, 1903; first, Minnesota-North Dakota 
; Derby, 1903; third, Independent All-Age, 1903; 
I second, Continental All-Age, 1903; third. East¬ 
ern All-Age, January, 1904; equal third, Eastern 
Subscription Stake, January, 1904; first Motion- 
gahela All-Age, 1904; fourth, Independent All- 
Age, 1904; second. Continental All-Age, 1904; 
third, Eastern All-Age, 1904; third, Eastern Sub- 
1 scription Stake, 1904; second United States All- 
Age, 1905; Championship Illinois, 1905; third, 
Continental All-Age, 1905; third. Eastern All- 
Age, 1905 ; third, Eastern Subscription Stake. 1903 ; 
first, United States All-Age, and second, E. F. 
t T. All-Age, 1906. He also has achieved success, 
on the bench, winning first and special at the 
St. Louis dog show in the field trial class, and 
second at New York. With characteristic 
pluckiness, Mr. Sherwood writes: “I have won 
l many firsts at New York about thirty years ago, 
and I want him to go back this year and win the 
first instead of second.” 
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Decoys. 
Point Loma, Cal., Jan. 19.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: If you are in a grizzly country and 
succeed in killing an elk you leave the elk un¬ 
disturbed, going to a point of vantage, properly 
I selected, and, if fortune smiles upon you and 
your aim be true and the soft nose bullet prop¬ 
erly expands, you get your grizzly. 
The old alligator hunters used a live dog or a 
squealing pig, properly staked out to bring the 
old monster within range. 
The little box of syrup in the hands of the 
bee-tree hunters proves the undoing of the busy 
little honey producers. 
The horn of birch bark scientifically operated 
has decoyed many an antlered monarch to his 
; doom and set his head and horns upon the walls 
of many a den. 
The bone of his brother’s wing, properly blown 
into from behind a blind, has proven fatal to 
hundreds of roving gobblers, proof against all 
. other inducements. 
The odoriferously baited trap has kept the 
whole world warm with furs. 
The dead-fall, reeking with honey, is responsi- 
1 ble for the death of many a sweet toothed bear. 
Then there is the wily goose, keen of eye, 
watchful, suspicious, alert. Every inch of stubble 
is surveyed as he comes along at the head of 
the flock. There must be no fresh dirt around 
the pit, no loose straw, and no unnecessary foot¬ 
marks, for all these mean something. The 
“winged” wild geese tethered out upon the 
ground around the pit seem to take a devilish 
delight in decoying their free relatives within 
danger’s zone. Come ! Come! honk the decoy¬ 
ing geese. And down from the clouds a honk¬ 
ing answer comes back, and the great birds 
circle and swing, and trustful to the limit, fly 
right into the face of the guns. 
Even the mute knife-edge metal goose decoy 
plays its part, and if the aim be true two-, per¬ 
haps three, geese come tumbling to earth lured 
by a few pieces of painted metal. The mallards, 
canvasbacks and redheads fare no better. The 
well concealed blind, the floating decoys, dead 
or living, the call of the men in the blind, and 
what is left for a poor duck to do ? And when 
an old lone greenhead circles around to sweep 
down and on vibrating pinions to hold, like a 
fixed object in the air, as he sizes up the decoys 
a few feet below him. it seems like shooting at a 
mark on the barn door. 
The .snipe, who loves the shelving beach, learns, 
when too late, of the perils of decoys. And so 
does man circumvent the wariness and caution 
inherent in wild life. X. 
An Unusual Record. 
Quincy, Mass., Jan. 15.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: 1 have twenty years’ continuous issues 
of Forest and Stream and others as old as 
thirty years — 1875. 
Probably you are not much interested in the 
fact, but I ljave for sixty-five years or more, 
almost without a break, had a gun in my hands 
one or two days every week during the shoot¬ 
ing ■ season. It is sixty-six years last August 
since I killed my first upland plover, and it 
was done with a 28-gauge flint-lock gun. It is 
sixty-three years since I went to Cape Cod, 
coming May. I was one of twelve who went 
there at that time, six of whom were my 
brothers. No one of the twelve is now living 
except the writer, but they were all much older 
than me. All the memories of that trip are as 
fresh to me as if they were not a day old, and 
in fact all the shooting trips, away and around 
home, have left their distinct memories with 
me, probably to remain as long as the brain is 
in any wise active and, if possible, with an ever 
increasing satisfaction and pleasure as they daily 
pass through my mind. 
As my shooting activity has about reached 
the end of its rope I cannot do without my 
Forest and Stream. Thomas Curtis. 
Pemmican Making. 
Chippewa Bay, N. Y., Jan. 8.— Editor forest 
and Stream: Can you give me the formula and 
directions for making pemmican? W. W. W. 
[We know of no formula for the manufacture 
of pemmican. The method of preparing it, how¬ 
ever, is described in “Blackfoot Lodge Tales,” p. 
206. The flesh of the animal to be used is cut 
in thin flakes and dried in the sun. The dried 
meat is then lightly roasted by being toasted on 
the coals of an aspen or cottonwood fire. This 
roasted dried meat is thrown- on a skin and 
beaten with sticks until it is reduced to very 
small fragments. The pounded meat is mixed 
with a certain amount of melted tallow, or fat from 
the marrow, put into rawhide bags, and rammed 
down tight with a large stick until the bag is 
full, when it is sewed up. Then the pemmican 
makers jump on it, to expel all the air, and when 
the grease is cold, the pemmican is as solid as a 
stone, and about as heavy. Sometimes when 
made in small quantities, the dried meat is 
heaten to powder between stones. This was the 
old method of making buffalo pemmican. Of 
course, at the present time, pemmican is not 
made except as a curiosity, or, commercially, for 
use with Arctic expeditions. We presume that 
the flesh for such pemmican is kiln dried, but 
we do not know about this.— Editor.] 
Wolves in Forest Reserves. 
The United States Department of Agriculture 
has in press and will issue in a few days Bulle¬ 
tin 72 of the Forest Service, entitled, “Wolves 
in Relation to Stock, Game and the National 
Forest Reserves,” prepared by Vernon Bailey, 
Assistant in Charge of Geographical Distribution, 
Biological Survey. 
The bulletin calls attention to the present 
abundance of wolves in various western States, 
the losses suffered by stockmen on the western 
cattle ranges, and the destruction of game in 
forest reserves and in National parks, with sug¬ 
gestions for the destruction of the wolves. 
Among the protective measures recommended are 
bounties and wolf-proof fences. The means of 
destruction suggested are hunting, capture of the 
wolf cubs, poisoning- and trapping. 
The bulletin is illustrated by three full page 
plates and five text figures. 
Mayor McClellan’s Recommendations. 
In his annual message Mayor George B. Mc¬ 
Clellan, of New York city, recommended that 
the small herd of bison now in Prospect Park, 
Brooklyn, and all the animals now in the Cen¬ 
tral Park inclosures, be turned over to the New 
York Zoological Society. 
CHAMPION JESSIE RODFIELD’s COUNT GLADSTONE, HON. JESSE SHERWOOD OWNER, CHICAGO. 
