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FORESTIAN D Si REAM: 
[AuG. I0, 1907. 

Taxidermists. 
For Sale. 

SAVE YOUR TROPHIES. 
Write for our Illustrated Catalogue, 
“Heads and Horns.” 
It gives directions for preparing and preserving Skins, Antlers, 
etc. Also prices for Heads and Rugs, Birds and Fish, and all 
kinds of work in Taxidermy. 
Ward's Natural Science Establishment, 
ROCHESTER, N. Y. 


J. KANNOFSKY, 

and Manufacturer of 
Artificial eyes for birds, animals and manufacturing purposes a 
specialty. Send for prices. All kinds of skulls for the fur 
trade. 369 Canal Street, New York. 
Please mention ‘‘Forest and Stream.” 
ROWLAND. 
TAXIDERMIST, 
A specialty in mounting Moose, Elk, Caribou and Deer 
heads. Call and examine work. 
No. 182 SIXTH AVENUE, 
Tel. 4206 Chelsea. Near 13th St. NEW YORK 
4 FRED SAUTER, Taxidermist. 





Rat Established 1860, 
‘¢ j 7 =, Formerly No. 3 
Ok < SANo. William St., 
es, we : ss s«Removed to 
42 Bleecker St., 
cor. Elm St., 
will continue to 
please customers 
with the best durable work. Also carry large assortment of Game 
Heads, Rugs and attractive groups, for sale and to rent. 
TAXIDERMISTS 
Dealers in Supplies, Glass Eyes, and 
all materials used by the trade. 




Also all kinds of 
ENTOMOLOGICAL SUPPLIES. 
Send for Catalogue. 
THE M ABBOTT FRAZAR CO. 
93 SUDBURY ST. 

Dept. 2 

THE NEW EDITION 
Dated July J 
Game Laws in Brief 
Contains the new Laws of 
39 States, Territories and 
Provinces. 
Sold by dealers everywhere, 
for 25 cents, postpaid, by. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUB. CO. 

Small-Mouth Black Bass 
We have the only establishment dealing in young small-mouth 
blae& bass commercially in the United States. Vigorous young 
bass $n various sizes ranging from advanced fry to 3and 4-inch 
fingertings for stocking purposes. j 
Waramaug Small-Mouth Black Bass Hatchery. 
Correspondence invited. Send for circulars. Address 
HENRY W. BEEMAN, New Preston, Conn. 
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BROOK TROUT. 
Eggs, fry, yearlings and two-year-olds, for stocking 
brooks and lakes. Address NEW ENGLAND TROUT 
FARM, Plympton, Mass. 
BROOK TROUT. 
It will pay you to correspond with me before buying 
eggs, fry or yearlings in any quantity. I guarantee a 

safe delivery anywhere. Crystal Springs Trout Farm, 
L. B. HANDY, So. Wareham, Mass. 
BROOK TROUT of all ages for . stocking 
brooks and_ lakes. Brook 
trout eggs in any quantity, warranted delivered anywhere 
in fine condition. Correspondence solicited. 
THE PLYMOUTH ROCK TROUT CG, 
Plymouth, Mass. 
BROOK TROUT FOR SALE. 
We have constantly on hand 
a fine supply of Brook Trout 
all sizes for stocking purposes 
Also for table use, at 75c. a 
pound. Visitors privileged to 
catch own trout. 
PARADISE BROOK 
TROUT CO., Parkside, Pa., Henryville R. R. Sta. 

THE BROOKDALE TROUT CANNOT BE BEAT 
for stocking ponds and streams. For the next few 
weeks we will make a yery low price on young fry and 
large fish. Also fly-fishing. 
BROOKDALE TROUT CO., Kingston, Mass. 
3erkshire Trout Ponds and Hatchery, Hartsville P. Ox 
Mass.—A lot of fine healthy trout for sale. For informa. 
tion write or phone to GEORGE W. SHULTS, Super- 
intendent, Hartsville P. O., Mass. Phone, 16-13 Great 
Barrington, Berkshire Hills. 
FISH FOOD 
For Hatcheries 
HEARTS AND LIVERS. 
I give special attention to supplying Fish 
Clubs and Trout Growers—assuring prompt 
deliveries at all times. . 
Livers guaranteed free from disease and_ parasites. 
Correspondence solicited. M. ABRAMS, 610-612 W. 58th 
St., New York City. Ref., State Fish Commissioner, 
Cold Spring Harbor, L. I. 
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Cuitural 
and safe 

Wants and Exchanges. 

Wanted.—Set of elk horns on skull: Must be at least 
sixty inches in length. Send description and photo- 
graph, if possible, to G. L. HARRISON, JR., 400 Chest- 
nut St., Philadelphia, Pa. 6 
Se ee eee ee 
Salesman.—With ability to earn $5.00 a_ day or better. 
Men or women. Position permanent. Commence now. 
No experience required. Outfit free. No triflers need 
apply. First National Nurseries, Rochester, N. Y. 7 
WANTED—A position as manager or overseer of a 
sporting estate or game preserve, by a gentleman who is 
a thorough sportsman, and has shot both large and small 
game in Texas, Virginia, N. C., N. W. Canada, B. ues 
Africa and the old country. RALPH SMITH, Flat 
Rock, « Na 1G: 6 

Sam Lovel'’s Boy. 
By Rowland E. Robinsen. Price, $1.25. 
Sam Lovel’s Boy is the fifth of the series of Danvis 
ks. No one has pictured the New Englander with 
so much insight as has Mr. Robinson. Sam Lovel and 
Hu!dah are two of the characters of the earlier books in 
the series, and the boy is young Sam, their son, who 
grows up under the tuition of the coterie of friends that 
we know so well, becomes a man just at the time of the 
Civil War, and carries a musket in defense of what he 
believes to be the right. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
LIVE GAME & GAME BIRDS 
To Restock Your Preserves. 
Write for our price lists. 
WENZ & MACKENSEN, > : - 
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Yardley, Pa. 

AN UNSUCCESSFUL RAINBOW EXPERI- 
MENT. 
THE rainbow trout (Salmo irideus) is prob- 
ably the most beautiful of all known species of 
the genus salmo. It grows rapidly, and reaches 
a very great weight before the inevitable de- 
generation indicative of old age sets in; it rises 
freely, taking both sunk and dry fly, and when 
hooked gives better sport than the indigenous 
S. fario. Since its introduction into this coun- 
try, says the London Field, it has been success- 
fully used to stock a number of lakes and ponds 
which had formerly only contained the so-called 
coarse fish, and has thus raised to a marked de- 
gree their sporting values. In the south country 
chalk streams it has, however, generally proved 
a most disappointing addition to the native fauna, 
as after .the first season its general tendency has 
been to disappear gradually, although I am credi- 
bly informed that certainly in one Hampshire 
stream (the Meon) it. has become permanently 
established; but, strange to say, in this river it 
does not seem to reach any great size.’ Some 
of the best modern authorities are of opinion 
that the disappearance of the rainbows after their 
first season is due to their being migratory fish, 
and that, like salmon or sea trout, they drop 
down to the sea after the work of procreation 
has been completed. This may be a sound: argu- 
ment, but, if so, it is strange that, following the 
analogy of the other migratory salmonide, they 
have not in subsequent seasons reappeared greatly 
increased in weight, and re-ascended the rivers 
for the purpose of depositing their ova on the 
shallows. Another theory which has been freely 
promulgated is that, being ravenous feeders, they 
have not found the food supply of the chalk 
streams sufficient for their appetites, and have 
thus roamed _in search of better feeding grounds. 
It occurred to me that if adult rainbow trout, 
which had been bred and fed in captivity, could 
be introduced into suitable parts of a stream, and 
the natural food supply supplemented by a little 
hand feeding, they might perhaps be induced to 
remain permanently at or near the places where 
they had been turned in. On a portion of the 
Test, some few miles below the length I rent, 
Mr. T. E. Vickers has for some years kept and 
fed a number of very fine rainbows in a fast- 
running by-stream, and they are prevented from 
straying by gratings fixed at the upper and lower 
ends of the stretch in which they are confined. 
On my explaining the proposition to him he at 
once, and in the most sportsmanlike spirit, of- 
fered to give me as many specimens as-were re- 
quired to try the experiment. His keeper selected 
thirty, averaging about 114 pounds each, and 
about equally divided as to sex, all in the most 
perfect condition, and typically marked with the 
longitudinal iridescent roseate band from which 
the name of the species is derived. On Sept. 
19 of the last year they were safely conveyed 
to the smaller of the two streams into which 
the Test is divided in the portion rented by me, 
and turned out on a bright, swift shallow, where 
every movement could be easily observed and 
studied. A handful of the food of the same 
description as that on which they had been fed 
at home was thrown into the water, and every 
particle of it was at once devoured. In the bright 
sunshine and the clear water they could be 
plainly discerned, and there was no difficulty 
whatever in differentiating them from the ordi- 
nary trout of the Test. 
Every morning the keeper gave these fish a 
small quantity of food, and for nearly four 
months there was no marked decrease in their 
number. On Sept. 26, when netting the upper 
part of the same stream for pike, one rainbow 
was taken in the nets about half a mile above 
the place where they had been turned in; netting 
on a subsequent occasion, two more were caught 
at about the same place, and all of these were 
safely returned to the water. A neighbor took 
one when netting about a quarter of a mile higher 
up, and this, too, was restored to its native ele- 
ment. In October one of them was unfortu- 
nately killed on a trimmer set for pike and. baited 
with a small dace, and in November and Janu- 
ary two more were also taken on trimmers with 
small dace. No doubt these captures point. to 
the predatory instincts of S. irideus. but they 
are probably no worse in this respect than S. 


