Two Practical Books 
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for Campers and Sportsmen 
By EMERSON HOUGH 
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Outline of Contents 
Chapter 
I. Your Summer Encamp¬ 
ment. 
II. Bait Casting For Bass. 
III. Angling Extraordinary. 
IV 
FOREST AND STREAM 
The Inconnu—What It 
Is Not. 
Before you plan your 
hunting or camping trip— 
even before you spend five 
cents for equipment, get 
the advice and suggestions 
of America’s greatest 
sportsman — Emerson 
Hough. The amateur and 
the “regular” will each 
find these books brimful of 
worth-while information 
and the kind of assistance 
they need. 
“Let us Go Afield” is a 
call to the wild that tells 
you what to do and how 
to do it when you get 
there. From bass fishing 
to bear hunting it covers 
in detail all branches of 
the sport, telling how, 
where and when to get the 
finest specimens. Chap¬ 
ters on the camp, equip¬ 
ment, etc., are particular¬ 
ly valuable. 
“Out of Doors” enables 
the novice to enjoy a 
thoroughly satisfying so¬ 
journ in the open. The 
routine of outdoor life in 
all its phases is clearly 
and thoroughly explained. 
The book is crowded with 
practical advice on what 
to wear, how to cook, what 
to eat, how to pitch a 
tent, make a bed, make a 
fire, handle a canoe, how 
to fish, etc. It also tells 
how women can get the 
most comfort and pleasure 
from camp life. 
Aside from their great 
value to the sportsman 
and camper, these books 
make delightfully inter¬ 
esting reading for every¬ 
body. 
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Outline of Contents 
Chapter 
I. 
Your Vacation. 
II. 
The Camper’s Outfit. 
III. 
The Vacation Nuis¬ 
ances; How To Pre¬ 
vent Them. 
IV. 
In The Junk Closet. 
V. 
The Woman In Camp. 
VI. 
Uncle Sam’s Shoes. 
VII. 
Mountain Camping. 
VIII. 
Your Canoe And Its 
Outfit. 
IX. 
Hints And Points On 
Trout Fishing. 
X. 
Your Bird Dog; How 
To Use Him. 
XI. 
Your Gun; How To 
Handle It. 
XII. 
Your Campfire; How 
To Use It. 
XIII. 
Getting Lost And What 
To Do About It. 
XIV. 
The Faculty Of 
Observation. 
Forest and Stream 
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BIG DEER AND BIGGER BEAR RE¬ 
WARDED SOME ADIRONDACK 
HUNTERS. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Correspondents of mine in the northern 
hunting country have not agreed this sea¬ 
son as to the presence of any great number 
of deer, but advices just received indicate 
that some of the old fashioned “big game 
was taken. From Essex County comes a 
statement that only a few days ago former 
sheriff W. A. Knowlton got a buck weigh¬ 
ing 236 pounds when dressed and that John 
Soper who was with the party got one buck 
weighing dressed 222 pounds and another 
weighing 192. From Lake Placid it is re¬ 
ported that a student named Bentley shot 
a buck weighing 312 pounds. 
This was positively not the party that 
came back with a story of meeting with an 
enchanted buck of great size in the Lime 
Kiln mountain region, at which two of the 
hunters fired four shots each and another 
three without apparent effect, at an esti¬ 
mated distance of eight rods. Then an¬ 
other emptied his magazine rifle and the 
deer just went away. The man who told 
this story added, “Next.” 
Speaking of bear, it is also just recorded 
that the man in charge of the observation 
tower on Loon Lake mountain, John J. 
Ryan by name, while out on a deer hunt, 
ran into a big black bear that started for 
him after the first shot and that did not 
drop until after five shots had been fired. 
It ought also to be noted that Ryan stood 
his ground while shooting although the 
bear kept right on coming, and that the 
bear weighed 340 pounds. 
Fishermen will be glad to know that at 
last the real value of a trout stream has 
been definitely stated. It is placed at $100 
per mile of Adirondack waters. This will 
perhaps furnish a sufficient reason for the 
determined action taken by owners of pre¬ 
serves in the Adirondacks and the Cats¬ 
kills to keep out visitors with angling in¬ 
clinations. 
The estimate has been furnished by the 
Taggart Paper Company of Watertown, 
which just now is asking the State to pay 
something like a million dollars for a tract 
of some 12,000 acres which was seized for 
park purposes and which contained the 
trout stream. The company actually in¬ 
cluded the value of the stream as stated as 
part of its claim for damages, hence it may 
be taken as semi-official. 
In view of this it would be interesting to 
know whether or not the stream was 
stpcked by the State under the old require¬ 
ment that such waters must be left open 
to the public. All the old applications for 
fish contained such a stipulation and in 
the famous fight between Oliver Lamora 
and Rockefeller it played its part. Pos¬ 
sibly the Conservation Commission has the 
matter in mind or will have if ever there 
is trouble over the very general setting 
apart for private preserves of lands in the 
Adirondacks and Catskills whose waters 
were stocked repeatedly by the State years 
ago and became valuable as the result of 
such stocking. This matter has not been 
agitated of late. 
John D. Whish. 
Albany, December 2, 1916. 
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