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wisdom, not to repress with such a sudden grip that something will give 
way in the body scholastic, or that too much license allows the college to 
degenerate into professional gamesters, politicians, and tricksters. And 
right here is where the boating inflammation has attacked the college. Itis 
uot a constitutional affection, but one that is purely local, and a condition 
like that of boils brought about by the cold water treatment of disease, a 
sure sign of vigor and yitality in the body asa whole, which has the 
power to develop a ‘“‘ crisis,’ and thus strengthen and fortify against un- 
usual demands and attacks of disease.” 
The inter-collegiate Regatta seems to develop among not only the stu- 
dents, but the alumni also, a feeling of ownership in the college, which in 
an indirect way is of great service to any college, for what college is there 
which does not live in its alumni ? 
And whatever may be the feeling of any Professor, that a few of the 
boating men with ‘poor preparations for college, and minds not moving 
rapidly, have suffered because of their preparations for the Regatta, still 
every officer of our college will not fail to admire the zeal and steadiness, 
and high moral conduct with which every member of our crews prepared 
for and went through their ordeal at Springfield; and personally I cannot 
but feel that as boating is conducted with us at the present, the aquatic 
exercise is an advantage to the college body as a whole, and in the general 
average to the students engaging in it. And yet it is simply honest for me 
to state in conclusion, that some of my associated Professors hold decided- 
ly different opinions on some of the matters mentioned here. 
Prof. Epwarp HircHcock. 

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THE,LONG ISLAND FIRES. 
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HE fires on Long Island have not been as destructive 
to game as was at first represented. Very little, if any, 
has been destroyed, although quite a large area, as much as 
25,000 acres, have been swept over by the flames. The 
game existed but sparsely in the peculiar locality, the fire 
not having reached the South country, excepting in a few 
portions, and these were between Patchogue and Lakeland, 
exactly where in former times there had been fires, a ground 
now covered by scrubby oaks and stunted pines. Little or 
no game has ever existed to our knowledge within the limits 
of the late fire. Had it, however, extended across the Long 
Island Railroad, or east or south in the open fields border- 
ing, on which large timber and good feeding ground is 
found, an irreparable damage might have been done to the 
game, such as quail and woodcock, which abound there in 
greater quantity to-day than for many years before. If it 
is poss#ble that any good can come out of a calamity of this 
nature, if the fields and woods have suffered, the fisherman 
can derive some comfort from the fact that it is quite pos- 
sible that the small streams running through the burnt dis- 
trict will even be benefitted by the fire. It will start into 
active growth again the scrub trees on the banks of the 
streams, and as it may take years before the hand of man 
ean cut them, they will shade the springs, which will be of 
benefit for the fish. The fire seems to have extended to 
‘West Pond (Woodhull’s), on the west side, but did not harm 
Canaan Pond to any great extent. 
are no deer to be found in the immediate locality of the 
fire. 
These frequent fires are becoming dangerous as well as 
simply destructive. Is there no way to prevent. them ? 
Shall we drive off the locomotive, or crush out. the. charcoal 
burning industry, both of which are much blamed as the 
origin of these fires? Is there no way of checking by rea- 
sonable restrictions the carelessness of the brush burners, 
. permitting them to burn only in the winter, or when the 
verdure is green and flowing with juice? Shall we permit 
the engineers of trains, even of express trains, to pass heed- 
lessly by a fire just caught, and licking up the parched grass 
and making its way to brush and thickets which are dry-as 
tinder ? What shall be done to cure the indifference of the 
farmer to the occasion of the thin blue spire of smoke 
which he sees curling up from his neighbor’ 8 territory on a 
day so hot that wood will almost ignite spontaneously. in 
the sun’s torrid rays? Ah! Messrs. Farmers,.an ounce of 
prevention is worth a pound of cure, and sometimes a little 
more attention to the pecuniary interests of your neighbor,and 
less to his morals, will save yourselves a ‘‘heap” of trouble. 
We have seen many conflagrations which were permitted to 
gain an uncontrollable headway because the gradually ris- 
ing flames did not seem to threaten your own crops and 
fences, 

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LOWE ELE eA LES; 
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We humbly invite the co-operation of the ladies. What 
success is complete without their countenance and sympathy? 
We shall print articles with special reference to their perus- 
al and edification. Every word in this paper will be as 
chaste as Diana herself. She was the patroness of the chase 
and of forest sports, and a divinity whose beck no cavalier 
or rough rider would be loth to follow. Why should not 
our ladies of the present day emulate the spirit and action 
of their female ancestors, not in riding, spurred and booted, 
astride the saddle, man-fashion, but in cultivating the blush 
of rosy health upon their cheeks by open-air exercises in 
which men can participate? We cordially invite their con- 
tributions upon all topics which come within the general 
scope of our publication. 
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TO ADVERTISERS. 
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Dealers in all kinds of supplies likely to be required by 
sportsmen will perceive upon critically examining our paper 
that it must at once become a valuable advertising medium. 
The ramifications of a sportsman’s requirements are so 
numerous and divergent, that they reach to many branches 
of trade. We shall aim to put the purchaser in direct com- 
munication with the seller, by informing where any required 
goods can be bought. Sportsmen are often obliged to hunt 
the city for some essential article, because it is not adver- 
tised. A journal like this which.deals in specialties, is far 
more useful to the class of advertisers whose patronage it 
seeks, than one which advertises miscellaneous business. 

As to larger game, there 
A PLEA FOR THE Brown BHAR.—We enter a plea for 
the unfortunate trick bear which is daily paraded through 
the streets of New York and Brooklyn, and made to go 
through his exercises under the sweltering sun. Bears who 
have the freedom of the forest can indulge in siestas under 
the shade of the laurels and underbrush, but this poor 
beast must endure the full force and glare of the midday 
heat, half sick with the process of shedding his hair, and 
clad in a thick shaggy overcoat which Nature compels him 
to wear in the dog days. The few bystanders who stand in 
the shade and watch his evolutions with a painful interest 
that is plainly visible on their faces, perspire freely in their 
linen coats, while the man who bosses the bear fairly glows 
with the heat and reeks with sweat, which he sops with his 
handkerchief. The bear is docile, obedient, cowed, and 
and obeys each well-learned signal of his master, but should 
he demur at any time a savage jerk at the iron ring which 
passes through his nose, or a threatened blow from the 
ever-impending club, will at once discourage any attempt 
to resist. 
More than once the woes of this miserable bear have ap- 
pealed to the sympathies of the public, and ought to be re- 
garded. To be sure, both man and bear must subsist ; if 
they have chosen this method of earning a livelihood let 
the partner of the concern having the most intellect set 
apart proper hours and seasons. If he does not, we advise 
the bear to ‘“‘strike” and break the contract. Mr. Bergh, 
please notify your deputies. 
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Up In A BauLoon.—The daily Graphic publishers are 
preparing their big balloon, and we wish to assist in giving 
it a good ‘‘send-off.”” Although our paper bears the dis- 
tinctive name of ForEsT AND STREAM, we claim to devote 
some attention to the wr and ocean,—and though this big 
balloon is neither the one nor the other, but rather some- 
thing between the two, so to speak (that is, the projectors say 
it will be next 25th instant), it nevertheless comes within 
our ken and notice. Briefly, we have great hope of the 
enterprise. The balloon is sure to go up, and when that 
goes ‘‘allis gone save hope.” Winging its way heaven- 
ward, mounting to the zenith, vanishing at last into thin 
air, gone perhaps forever, will not the enterprise, with its 
projector and voyager, have fully established itself as an 
airy naught? (See sronaut.) Under its competent Profes- 
sor, who is both Wise and weather-wise, can anything but 
success be expected ? We trust it will strike that eastern 
current, and, guided by the same propitious star which led 
the ‘‘wise men of the East” lang syne, be wafted to its des- 
tination. We ought to do at least as much for the balloon 

‘as the war has done for us—give it ‘‘inflated currency.” 
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Weare pleased to give the fullest notice—and it is well 
merited—of still other prizes offered to yachts, &c., by Com- 
modore James Gordon Bennett, but would particularly call 
attention to the fact that Mr. Bennett provides four purses, 
one of $1,000 open to all schooners of any recognized 
yacht club, two of $500 open to schooners and sloops, and one 
of $1000 open to prlot boats, working schooners and smacks. 
The colossal wealth of our bankers, merchants, and rail- 
road men, is the constant theme among all classes. Why 
can’t we induce more Bennetts, Lord Hardys and Jeromes 
to give prizes? Let a prominent man in each seaport and in- 
land town of note, give a purse for yachting, boating, and 
athletic pastimes, and he would receive more thanks from 
‘the higher class of sportsmen who are really beginning 
to feel that there is some good to be done in recreative 
amusements among the young men of America, than if he 
left thousands to be squandered by his heirs. 
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Aw ADIRONDACK Fish PRESERVE.—We understand that a 
party of gentlemen are about leasing Preston Pond, Essex 
county, in the Adirondacks, for the private use of a club. 
These ponds form the sources of Cold River, a tributary of the 
Racket, and are filled with the finest quality of trout. For the 
past fifteen years they have been poached during winter 
and spring, and as many as fifteen barrels of trout have been 
taken out of them each year. We are glad that there is a 
probability of such valuable waters as these being rescued 
from the snares of the wanton and unscrupulous spoiler. 
‘We have a friend’s authority for saying that some anglers 
(?) one day brought in from these ponds a tin lunch box 
which contained eighty-two trout. Poor little fingerlings! 
Noble line of sportsmen. 

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, AN Otp Renic Gonzt.—The London Times mentions that 
the historical York House, Twickenham, is about passing 
under the auctioneer’s hammer. Here dwelt Clarendon du- 
ring the zenith of his popularity. It. was his literary Villa, 
and it is probable that during his residence there, Ben 
Johnson, Edmund Walter, Sir Kenelm Digby and Isaac 
Walton were the frequenters of York House. 

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Farmer, Lirrte & Co., type founders, have* furnished 
the elegant typographical dress for this paper 
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Polo seems to have become now a regular game in Eng- 
land, though rather of an aristocratic character, and confin- 
ed to cavalry officers, with a sprinkling of hunting men. A 
London paper says ; 
““There has been some regular play at Lillie Bridge 
during the week, but on Friday the public were treated 
to some of the most fast and exciting games that have ever 
been played there. The afternoon was devoted to a chari- 
table purpose. 
attendance of the public on such short notice proved that 
they were actuated by a sense of good as well as by a love 
of manly sport. 
The turf, cousidering the late broiling weather, was in 
capital order, and the “ground was gaily decorated with 
bnunting on every side. There could not have been less 
than 2,000 spectators present, and’the carriage ground was 

crowded also. Play began at four, and kept on with a few 
intermissions only till seven A. 'M. The. band played 
some very.choice airs, and the spectators stayed to the 
end, and were highly pleased. Mr. A. Murietta’s side won 
by three goals to one.’ 
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FISH CULTURE. 
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N expression of astonishment is often heard from per- 
sons who have not kept posted in the progress of fish 
culture in America, at what seems to them a strange, new 
business, that has, like the genii of Arabian Nights, sprung 
suddenly from almost nothing into vast proportions, «and 
they often, while reading an account of the stocking of 
some lake or stream, or perhaps the starting or success of 
some private trout farm, give vent to their astonishment in 
the exclamation, ‘‘ What a business that has got to be !” 
They do not see the processes by which the results pre- 
sented in a newspaper paragraph are arrived at ; they can- 
not see the patient watching, the anxiety, with its accom- 
panying periods of hope and despair, that have made the 
time seem long to the few earnest men who embarked in 
the new business before its success was assured, and gained 
the knowledge that now seems so simple, by hard work and 
careful experiment, often accompanied by the sneers of the 
unbelieving. 
If, while Seth Green was at Holyoke for the first time 
trying to hatch the eggs of the shad, which floated, con- 
trary to all his experience with fish eggs, and it was doubt- 
fulif he would succeed that season, the unbelieving had 
confined themselves to sneers, he would have felt grateful, 
but when to these weapons they added stones, and upset 
his boxes, it plainly showed that the opposition of the ignor- 
ent fisherman was stronger than he had supposed. 
Had these things happened a hundred years before, he 
would have been put to death as a wizzard. Yet these 
same men who persecuted him in his first attempts, no 
sooner found out that he had succeeded, and that the cul- 
ture of shad was destined to become a fixed institution on 
the Connecticut River, than they came whining around for 
a job, and he showed a christian forgiveness by employing 
them. 
The writer found something of the same spirit in the 
spring of 1866,*while trying for his own amusement to 
hatch yellow-perch and alewives, (alosa tyrannus) or as they 
are called on the Hudson River, herring, between Albany 
and Castleton, and only five miles from where he was this 
year employed by Mr. Green to hatch shad. The natives 
did not use stones, but after several times emptying an old 
leaky boat in which were placed the perch spawn hanging 
in long lace-like strings over sticks they broke it to pieces 
and carried off the shoe boxes in which the herring eggs 
were glewed to twigs and plants. 
These petty annoyances, however, were comparatively 
easy to bear, coming as they did from an ignorant class of 
men who probably feared damage to their business: but 
were as nothing compared to those who under the guise of 
friendship, took care to throw cold water upon everything 
connected with the new project. 
These things are fresh in the memory of all the pioneers 
in fish culture, who, having horne the heat and: burden of 
the day, are now rejoicing at the popularity which their 
once derided schemes for increasing the food fishes are at- 
taining. 
That fish culture, although of (diet surprising progress to 
some, is only on the threshold of its usefulness, is admitted 
by all who are at all familiarit. The day will come, and that 
shortly, when the great State of New York, instead of one 
hatching house to supply its whole area with salmon trout 
and whitefish, will maintain one on every lake. 
They already have one at Cooperstown, on Otsego lake, 
which is doing a grand work in stocking its waters with the 
variety of whitefish which they petsistantly miscall Otsego- 
bass. 
But we can afford to pass the hair-splitting about names 
to those whose interest in such things is confined to nom- 
enclature, and shake hands with the public-spirited men - 
who have built the hatching house and employed competent 
men to save a valuable fish from extermination. They have 
set an example that should be followed by the dwellers near 
the other inland lakes with which the State is so bountifully 
supplied. 
As the Hudson River has furnished those living near it 
with tons of cheap and wholesome food, so can each of 
these beautiful lakes, which are now only so much waste 
space taken from agriculture, be made to yield a larger re- 
turn, acre for acre, than the best grazing ands in the State. 
That some few things have been done that will not be ap- 
proved of in another decade is not to be wondered at ; for 
instance, in the opinion of the writer, too much value is 
placed on a fish (in some quarters), for his game qualities ; 
hence the popularity of the fresh water black-bass. Waters 
have been stocked with pickerel and muskelonge, simply 
because they afford sport. This ranges a few men against 
State appropriations for fish culture, because sport is often 
considered in place of cheap food. At the State hatching 
house there is little demand for whitefish because they do 
not take the hook, and therefore this most valuable fish is 
not disseminated in as great quantities as the salmon trout ; 
but if the State would decide for itself which fish to stock 
certain waters with, and do it, instead of waiting for per- 
sons who are public- aie enough to come and take them 
at their own expense, and who will only take such fish as 
may seem acceptable to their crude ideas, it would be far 
better. 
It is not to be expected that we will all agree on many 
