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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Oct. 24, 1908. 
$250 in Prizes for 
Narratives of Outdoor Life 
Cash Prizes for True Stories—A Chance for 
Every One to Turn Experience to Account 
ONE PRIZE OF $100.00 
ONE OF $50.00 TWO OF $25.00 FIVE OF $10.00 
Forest and Stream wants true stories of life in the open. Not fiction, 
but narratives of travel, adventure, life in the wild, experiences with big 
game. They must be Forest and Stream narratives, with all that this im¬ 
plies. They must be based on your own experiences or the experiences of 
those you know. They must be above the level of the commonplace, the 
kinds of happenings that appeal to the real outdoor man, that stir the 
memory, that make the blood tingle. 
The competition is open to everyone. There are no limitations. Con¬ 
tributions must be legibly written, preferably typewritten, on one side of 
the paper. Manuscript for the first and second prizes must not be less than 
10,000 words or more than 15,000. Manuscript to be considered for the 
$2.5 prizes must not be less than 5> 000 words. 
Manuscript awarded a prize becomes at once the property of Forest 
and Stream. We reserve the right to reject any or all manuscript sub¬ 
mitted. Manuscript which does not receive a prize will be returned to the 
writer if accompanied by stamps. We always have need of good stories 
of the Forest and Stream kind. Every good manuscript which does not 
win a prize may be available for our use. 
HERE ARE A FEW SUGGESTIONS FOR SUBJECTS: 
Adventures With Big Game at Home or Abroad 
Travel in Wild Lands Camp Lile in the Woods 
Small Game Shooting 
When photographs accompany manuscript -their interest will be given 
consideration in determining the availability of the contribution, but no 
manuscript will be accepted wholly because of the quality of the photo¬ 
graphs. 
PRIZES IN DETAIL: 
$100 lor the best narrative ol Outdoor Life not less than 10,000 words 
$50 lor the second best manuscript ol not less than 10,000 words 
$25—Two prizes ol $25 each for two manuscripts of not less than 
5,000 words each 
Five prizes of $10 each for the bes short (2,500 word) narratives of 
Outdoor Life 
This contest will close Dec. 15, 1908, and the prize winners will be 
announced in Forest and Stream at the earliest possible date thereafter. 
All communications should be addressed to Forest and Stream and plainly 
marked, “Prize Competition.” 
FOREST AND STREAM PUB. CO., 127 Franklin St., N. Y. 
CONSERVATIVE USE OF FORESTS. 
“All lumbermen are not wasteful, far from 
it,” says R. S. Kellogg, Assistant Forester in 
the United States Forest Service, in speaking 
about the progress of forestry in this country. 
“Just the contrary is true in many cases and 
the number of men in the lumber industry 
awakening to the necessity of conserving the 
country’s forest resources is increasing each 
day. Progressive lumbermen realize that they 
must adopt conservative methods or live to 
watch the slow death of their great industry. 
“Vast stretches of territory have been made 
barren through, as we think now, the careless 
and almost criminal methods of the old-time 
lumberman. Practically every section of the 
country bears scars left after he had skinned 
the land and left what remained open to the 
ravages of fire. The waste in the woods was 
terrific; the mill waste was almost as serious. 
In many cases the percentage of the tree that 
was sent to the market in the form of lumber 
was so small that I would be ashamed to men¬ 
tion the figure. It was considerably less than 
half. 
“All this, however, was more the fault of con¬ 
ditions than of the individual lumbermen. While 
some of them were without doubt unnecessarily 
wasteful, the majority operated as economically 
as they were able to, and still make a profit. 
Lumber was cheap, and many times only the 
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The Forest and Stream is the recognized medium o4 
entertainment, instruction and information between Amer¬ 
ican sportsmen. The editors invite communications on 
the subjects to which its pages are devoted. Anonymous 
communications will not be regarded. The editors are 
not responsibile for the views of correspondents. 
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