Oct. 24, 1908.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
Recent Publications. 
The Sporting Rifle, by Walter Winans. Large 
quarto, cloth, 217 pages, fully illustrated 
with drawings by the author and from 
photographs, $5. New York and London, 
G. P. Putnam’s Sons. 
Mr. Winans needs no introduction to our 
readers, to whom his books on “The Art of 
Revolver Shooting,” “Practical Rifle Shooting,” 
etc., are as well known as is his skill as a marks¬ 
man. In this book he writes of the shooting 
of big and little game, and describes the prin¬ 
cipal classes of sporting rifles and equipments. 
Naturally for one who is so expert in snap 
shooting, he deplores the tendency of the men 
and boys of his adopted country to practice rifle 
shooting only in the prone position when the 
hunter must shoot offhand, and his efforts are 
directed toward reform in these tendencies. To 
become an all-round shot one must, he says, 
learn to shoot in all styles, but any man who 
wishes to become a practical shot, and to remain 
one, must be very careful not to overdo deliber¬ 
ate shooting. Mr. Winans devotes considerable 
space to artificial targets, including the running 
deer, then gives minute instruction regarding 
rook, rabbit and hare shooting; deer stalking 
and driving; wild boar shooting in Belgium and 
Germany; trophies of the hunt; and gives full 
instructions regarding the purchase and use of 
rifles and equipments, clothing, etc., for game 
hunting. The illustrations are partly from 
sketches by the author, while the others are re¬ 
markable examples of wild game photography 
with rapid lenses and dry plates. 
Wilderness Homes; a Book of the Log Cabin, 
written and illustrated by Oliver Kemp. 
Cloth, 155 pages, $1.25. New York, the 
Outing Publishing Company. 
Mr. Kemp believes that most men look for¬ 
ward to the possession, some time, of a log 
cabin placed in a favorite spot in the forest, 
where material is abundant. He therefore 
tells, with the assistance of numerous sketches 
and photographs, how various types of log 
cabins and camps may be constructed. He 
writes for the information of the man who is 
capable of doing this himself, and for others 
who may wish to depend on an architect and a 
builder, but who will profit by studying the 
book and acquiring ideas that have been 
worked out in various ways. 
Every detail of cabin building is carefully de¬ 
scribed and illustrated, from the selection of a 
site and the laying of the foundation logs to 
the building of fireplaces and the equipment 
of the various rooms. Plans for a number of 
cabins are given, and the book is handsomely 
decorated with marginal sketches from the 
woods. 
The Life of the Salmon; with reference more 
especially to the fish in Scotland, by W. L. 
Calderwood, F.R.S.E., Director of Salmon 
Fisheries for Scotland. Cloth, 160 pages, 
fully illustrated from photographs, $2.50. 
London, Edward Arnold; New York, Long¬ 
mans, Green & Co. 
The general subjects are:. Smolts; Grilse; 
Results of Marking Salmon; The Scales of 
Salmon as Records of the Salmon’s Life; The 
Feeding of Salmon and Growth of the Genitalia; 
The Salmon and Water Temperature, etc. Con¬ 
cerning the moot question of the feeding of 
these fish in fresh water, Mr. Calderwood says: 
“* * * The Jack Scott or Silver Doctor 
may certainly be like nothing in the heavens 
above or the earth beneath, but the minnow or 
gudgeon is after all a fish, even though it smacks 
of formalin. Such lures are found by experi¬ 
ence to attract the salmon, and the impulse to 
take them is in all likelihood the same impulse 
which enables the salmon to nourish himself at 
other times. In this sense the fish may be said 
to feed, while at the same time there is noth¬ 
ing unnatural in allowing that the wobbling of 
an apparently half dead dace or sprat over a 
salmon’s head may incite the poor fish’s rage, 
or that the exquisite coloring of what is called 
a fly may produce a flash of keen emotion as 
has been said by some. 
“When the digestive tract of the salmon taken 
at the mouth of the river is examined, it is 
natural to suppose, since the fish is more re¬ 
cently from the sea than is the upper water fish, 
that more trace of feeding will be found. Grey 
and Tosh, in 1894 and 1895, examined 1,694 sal- 
mon in the Tweed, 1,442 of the fish being taken 
at the mouth of the river in the nets of the 
Berwick Salmon Fisheries Company. Of those 
Berwick fish 128, or 9 per cent., contained food. 
The following table shows in a condensed form 
the times at which the fish with food were taken: 
Number Number Per cent, 
examined, with food, with food. 
February . 7 1 14.3 
March . 48 20 43.4 
April .133 53 36.9 
May .215 36 16.7 
June .236 31 13.1 
July .283 5 1.7 
August .210 8 3.8 
September .106 2 2.0 
“It is noticeable at once that the greatest 
number with food is found in the fish taken 
during the months of April, May and June. A 
careful examination was made as to the nature 
of the food, and a detailed table is given on 
pages 77 to 8o of the report referred to. Her¬ 
657 
ring remains figure most largely, while other 
fish reported are sand-eels, whiting and haddock. 
In a considerable number were found crustacean 
remains, in a few fish marine worms, while 
among curious oddments—and these are interest¬ 
ing when we recollect the nature of the salmon 
fly—we have a caterpillar, four feathers, a leaf 
of a beech tree, moss, blades of grass and spike- 
lets of sedge. The staple food, however, seems 
to be the herring, which, among all fish in our 
seas, has been shown to be at once the most 
nourishing and the most easily digested. Con¬ 
cerning the small Crustacea (mostly amphipods) 
we may probably be not far wrong in assuming 
that they were ingested; in other words, that 
the herring swallowed the amphipods and the 
salmon swallowed the herring.” 
Woodcock and Grouse. 
New London, Conn, Oct. 13. — Editor Forest 
and Stream: Mr. Comstock and D. S. Marsh, 
Jr., of this place, both members of the Field and 
Stream Hunting Club, who have six thousand 
acres of land to shoot over at Old Lyme, went 
over the grounds there on Thursday and Friday 
last week. With them were two good English 
setters. One, a very fine dog for woodcock. 
They bagged nine grouse, thirteen quail and 
sixteen woodcock. These last local birds hatched 
on the ground. This number of woodcock is 
very unusual here and is an indication of a big 
flight of these birds in November. 
On Saturday last I was out over Montville 
with three others. We had a green dog, but 
put up eighteen partridges during the afternoon, 
walking nine miles. This gives a bird to every 
half mile. Results were poor with us owing to 
thick corn. Shooting will be better soon. 
, W. Warren Browne. 
Oregon Shooting. 
Milwaukee, Ore., Oct. 8. — Editor Forest ana 
Stream:' The shooting season for upland birds 
Window Seats are Always an Interesting Feature of an Interior, and in the Log Cabin they Make 
Excellent Receptacles in which to Store Things. 
From “Wilderness Homes.” 
