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FOREST AND STREAM. 


A WEEKLY JOURNAL. 
DEVOTED TO FIELD AND AQUATIC SPORTS, PRACTICAL 
NaturauL History, Fish CULTURE, THE PROTEC- 
TION OF GAME, PRESERVATION OF FORESTS, AND THE 
INCULCATION IN MEN AND WOMEN OF A HEALTHY 
INTEREST IN OUT-DOOR RECREATION AND STUDY: 
PUBLISHED BY 
Forest and Stream Publishing Co., 
103 FULTON STREET, NEW YORK. 
Terms, Five Dollars A Year, Strictly in Advance. 
A discount of twenty per cent. for five copies and 
upwards. 
and Ten Dollars will receive a copy of Hallock’s 
“ Fisnine Tourist,” postagefree. , 
Advertising Rates. 
In regular advertising columns, nonpareil type, 12 
lines to the inch, 25 cents per line. Advertisments on 
outside page, 40 cents per line. Reading notices 50 
cents per line. Advertisements in double column 25 
per cent. extra. Where advertisements are inserted 
over one month, a discount of 10 per cent. will be 
made; over three months, 20 per cent.; over six 
months, 30per cent. 

The object of this journal will be to studiously pro- 
mote a healthful interest in outdoor recreation, and to 
cultivate a refined taste for natural objects. We es- 
pecially desire to make the ForEst AND STREAM the 
recognised medium of communication between am:- 
teurs and professional sportsmen. All of us have 
something to impart, which, if made available to each 
other, willin time render us proficient in all those 
several branches of physical culture which are absolute- 
ly essential to our manhood and well-being, both as i1- 
dividual men and asanation. A practical knowledge 
of natural history must of necessity underlie all at- 
tainments which combine to make a thorough sports- 
man. Itis not suflicient that aman should be able 
to knock over his birds dexterously right and left, or 
cast an inimitable fly. He must learn by study and 
experience the haunts and habits of the game or fish 
he seeks. If he depend altogether upon his dog’s 
nose, or upon his henchmen, he will some day have 
to retire from the field in mortification and dis- 
grace, Therefore it is that we shall study to give 
practical instruction in the most attractive depart- 
ments of natural history. We shall not forget the 
technicalities of the craft either, but take pleasure in 
designating the best localities for hunting and fishing, 
outfits, implements, remedies, routes, distances, breeds 
of dogs, &c. Each number will contain a paper de_ 
scriptive of a particular animal, bird, or fish, with some 
instruction as to its habits, haunts and mode of cap- 
ture, and the period when it isin season. We have 
arranged to receive regular weekly reports of the fish- 
ing and shooting in various parts of the country. 
Yachting and boating will be encouraged, and yacht 
news be made an especial feature of the paper. A 
reasonable space will be given to athletic sports and 
those out-door games in which ladies can participate. 
In a word, every description of game that is in vogue 
among respectable people, and of value as a health. 
giving agent or recreative amusement, will be consid- 
ered and its practice encouraged. Nothing that de- 
moralizes or brutalizes, nothing that is regarded as 
‘“sport’’ by that low order of beings who, in their in- 
stincts are but a grade higher than the creatures they 
train to aniuse them, will find favor in these columns. 
To horse news we shall devote some space, giving a 
record of leading races and meetings and current 
events, but we shall not make it a feature of this jour- 
nal. We leave this department to others, much more 
competent than ourselyes, who are recognised through- 
out the country as exponents of the turf, and as an- 
thority in stock, pedigree and kind. We yield to no 
one, however, in our love and appreciation of the horse 
and his estimable qualities. The noblest of all ani. 
mals, and the companion alike of men of high and 
low degree, he has never become contaminated by the 
moral atmosphere by which he is often surrounded, or 
degraded below the high rank to which his attributes 
entitle and assign him, : 
To the forest, lawn and garden we assign full place, 
For the preservation of our rapidly diminishing for 
eats we shall continually do battle. Our great inter- 
ests are in jeopardy—eyen our supply of drinking wa- 
ter is threatened, from the depletion of our timber- 
lands by fire and axe. It is but proper to state here 
that the gentleman in charge of this department is 
the well-known ‘‘ Olipod Quill,’ who was connected 
with the Agriculturist newspaper from the start, and a 
co-laborer with the lamented Downing for many years. 
Much valuable information will be found in this de- 
partment, 
Our military department is intended to comprise 
merely a weekly summary of news for officers and 
soldiers upon the frontier—such news as the casta- 
ways would enjoy to receive in a “letter from home;” 
and we trust that many of them will be inclined to 
send us in return some account of their hairbreadth 
experiences among the Indians, the buffaloes, the griz. 
zlies and the antelopes. We of the East are not 
thoroughly familiar with the varied species of game 
in the far Northwest, and would like to receive ful] 
information especially of the numerous Cervus family 
and of the Rocky Mountain sheep. This departemnt 
is under the charge of a distinguished army officer. 
Our dramatic and art column will be prepared by 
Colonel T. B. Thorpe, and must at once become popu- 
lar with all our readers who are interested in these 
matters, We shall occupy an independent position, 
and throw our offorts in behalf of competent reform. 
We shall perhaps even clamor for it. 
Our columns will always contain the cream of the 
latest foreign sporting news, 
In a word, we are prepared to print a dive paper and 
auseful one, We shall not be parsimonious in secur- 
ing the best material for its columns. We are con- 
vinced that there is a standard of eminence and useful- 
ness not yet fully attainded by any sporting journals 
in this country. To this we aspire. It will be our am- 
bition to excel; and we have relinquished a life of ease 
and semi-indolence to take charge of the enterprise, 
This not of our own free choice, but at the solicitation 
of many hundreds of friends and strangers. We are 
ably assisted in our labors by a corps of valuable as- 
sociates—men of age and experience, all of whom, with 
a single exception, have been identified with leading 
journals for years. 
Mr. Surgeon A, ATKINSON, connected with the 
Georgia press for oyer twenty years, has charge of the 
busiuess affairs of the Company. 
CHARLES HALiock, Managing Editor. 

Any person sending us two subscriptions _ 




1.—Near sighted man goes fishing. 
2.—Gives a glorious cast. 

TLUMORS OF SPORTING LIFE 


3.—Catches something the v:ry first time, 
4.—And goes home. 


Sportsmen's Gaads. 
Miscellaneous Advertisements. 


BRADFORD & ANTHONY, 
BOSTON, 
IMPORTERS, MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN 
Fishing Tackle, 
Have the best facilities for the Manufacture of 
FISHING RODS, ARTIFICIAL FLIES, WATER- 
PROOF LINES. 
and their connections abroad enable them to supply 
all Foreign Fishing Tackle to the best advanta; 
Fe. In 
the Fall of 1873 will return to their store, (rebuilt since 
the Fire,) at 
178 Washington Street. 
Orders by mail promptly answered. 
Established 1837. 
J7B GEOGKeuG On 
IMPORTERS AND MANUFACTURERS OF 
Mi TACKLE 
SO Eulton St., N. Y. 



Green Hart, Split Bamboo, Log Wood, Fly 
and Salmon Rods, a specialty 
ATTENTION! SPORTSMEN! 
N. Y. State Sportsmen's 
ASSOCIATION. 

Report of Committee on Stan- 
dard for Shot. 
Your Committee have the following report to make 
on the adoption by shot manufacturers and sportsmen 
A auniform “AMERICAN STANDARD” of Drop 
Shot. 
We have corresponded with all the manufacturers 
in the country, and most of them express a willingness 
to conform to the standard which shall be promulgated 
by your Convention. 
All manufacturers will have eventually to conform, 
when sportsmen require that their shot shall compare 
with the standard of excellence which your Committee 
has fixed. 
Upon the most critical examination, your Committee 
have decided to adopt as the ‘‘AMERICAN STAN- 
DARD,” the scale presented tous by Messrs. THOS. 
OTIS LE ROY & CO., of New York,as follows: (Here 
is given the scale, which can be had, on application, 
from Messrs. Thos. Otis Le Roy & Co., New York.) 
The number of pellets as given in the standard, is the 
correct number of PERFECT shot which will be produced 
by the given scale of each size. 
R. NEWELL, Chairman. 
N. M. SMITH, 
F. G. SKINNER. 
I hereby certify that the foregoing is an extract from 
the minutes of the meeting of the New York Sports- 
men’s Associaiton of June 11, 1873. 
JNO. B, SAGE, Secretary, 


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4 Ls EXTINGUISHER, 
‘ Absolutely the best protection against fire.” 
for ‘‘ Its Record.” 
F. W. FARWELL, Secretary, 
407 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. 
Send 


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by the English Government proved 
the gle of Alum Filling. No 
ille 
other Safes filled with 
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Printing, 
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A SPECIALTY. 
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ENGRAVERS 
Aud Designers, 
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Hudson River Institute, 
FOR BOTH SEXES. 
Fine Grounds, 167 Furnished Rooms, 20 In- 
structors, 11 Departments, 120 Classical 
Pupils, large Gymnasium and Drill- 
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Departments, Term opens 
September 8, 1878. 
tne 8) me 
Rev. ALZONO FLACK, A. M., President. 
CLAVERACK, N. Y., “¢ 


Sumner Resorts. 


Mansion House, 
BUFFALO, | 
F. E. HODGES, PROPRIETOR. 

BUTTERFIELD HOUSE, 
OSCAR L. STONE & €0., Proprietors. 
UTICA, NEW YORK. 
ROSSIN HOUSE, 
Toronto, Canada. 
SHEARS & SON, Proprietors. 


This house is a favorite resort for Gentlemen Sports- 
men, from all parts of the United States and Canada. 

Dee me PLEASURE EXCURSIONS TO 
Lake ‘Superior, 
By CoLtitinewoop AND LAKE Suprrior Line. 
Chicora, Cumberland, Frances Smith. 

The Finest Line of Steamers on Canadian Waters. 

During the month of August, cheap excursion tickets 
will be issued by this line, good for any of its steamers 
either for the whole trip, or for any part of it, if passen< 
gers prefer to lay over at any point of the route. 
The Captains have been instructed to take all the in- 
side picturesque channels of the route, and to lay over 
at points of interest to allow time to the excursionists 
to land or to enjoy the sport of fishing. 
Spacious private parlors can be secured on each 
steamer for family parties. The tables are replete with 
every delicacy of the season. 
Leave Collingwood every Tuesday and Friday at 4.30 
P. M. on arrival of ‘Steamboat Express Train,” con- 
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west, arriving in Toronto. 
The cheapest, coolest and most delightful summer 
excursion on American waters. 
N. MILLOY & CO., 
Passenger Agents, 
8 FRONT ST., TORONTO 
