FOREST AND STREAM. 
THE FOREST AND STREAM GREETING. 
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N the advent of the New Year the Fornst anp STREAM 
offers its congratulations to its numerous readers and 
thinks the occasion a most fitting one for its editor to re- 
turn his sincere thanks to the public who have so gene- 
rously given the paper their patronage and support. 
Perhaps there is no feeling in the human heart so pleas 
ant, or*which impels one to more vigorous action than a 






directed towards the visits paid by foreign Volunteer troops 
to England, when contests took place at Wimbledon. 
Socially, these visits were of the greatest benefit, and with 
their well-known hospitality, the English Volunteers gave 
to their foreign guests a most cordial greeting. But when 
it came to shooting for rifle contests, whole foreign brigades 
not knowing anything about their weapons, save their drill 
manual, the exhibition of their shooting must have been as 
wearisome as it was without practical results. 

























A WEEK Y JOURNAL, 
DEVOTED TO FIELD AND Aquatic Sports, PRACTICAL NATURAL HISTORY, 
Fish CULTURE, THE PROTECTION OF GAME, PRESRYATION OF FORESTS, 
AND THE INCULCATION INMEN AND WOMEN OF A HEALTHY INTERFST 
IN Out-=50R RECREATION AND STUDY: 
PUBLISHED BY 
Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 
103 FULTON STREET, NEW YORK. 
APES 
Terms, Five Dollars a Year, Strictly in Advance. 
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sending us one subscription and Five Dollars will receive a copy of 
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eedetg ae, 
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extra. Where advertisements are inserted over 1 month, a discount of 
10 per cent. will be made; over three months, 20 per cent; over six 
months, 30 per cent. 
NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JAN. 1, 1874. 
Re ar 
To Correspondents. 
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correspondence, must be addressed to THe Forrest AND STREAM PuB- 
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All communications intended for publication must be accompanied with 
real name, as a guaranty of good faith. Names will not be published if 
objection be made. No anonymous contributions will be regarded. 
§ Articles relating to any topic within the scope of this paper are solicited. 
We cannot promise to return rejected manuscripts. 
Ladies are especially invited to use eur columns, which will be pre- 
pared with «areful reference to their perusal and instruction. 
Secretaries of Clubs and Associations are urged to favor us with brief 
notes of their movements and transactions, as it is the aim of this paper 
become a medium of useful and reliable information between gentle- 
men sportsmen from one end of the country to the other; and they will 
find our columns a desirable medium for advertising announcements. 
The Publishers of Forrest anD STREAM aim to merit and secure the 
patronage and countenance of that portion of the community whose re- 
fined intelligence enables them to properly appreciate and enjoy all that 
is beautiful in Nature. It will pander to no depraved tastes, nor pervert 
the legitimate sports of land and water to those base uses which always 
send to make them unpopular with the virtuous and good. No advertise- 
ment or business notice of an immoral character will be received on any 
terms; and nothing will be admitted to any department o the paper that 
may not be read with propriety in the home circle. 
We cannot be responsible for the dereliction of the mail service, if 
money remitted to us is lost. 
Advertisements should be sent in by Saturday of each week, if possible. 
CHARLES HALLOCKH, 
Managing Editor. 

HAPPY NEW YEAR]! 

OW let the joy-bells that usher in the NEw YEAR 
ring out a merry peal! Let all the rubbish of the 
OLp—its sorrows, panics, perils, and distresses, go out with 
the departed dead. Dig deeply the grave, if need be, and 
bury all in oblivion. Set the old veteran’s face toward the 
East, Indian fashion, pitch him his hour-glass and scythe, 
pull his cowl over his head, and bid him good speed on 
wings of time to join the hosts of years that have gone 
before to make up the cycles. Hopes and promises are 
ever wound like wreaths of flowers around the chain of the 
future, and past distresses bring no discouragement to re- 
peated efforts. And yet, after all, not much of serious dis- 
aster or peril has marked the year just past. Clouds that 
threatened have either lapsed away, or actual calamities 
have been tempered by the purification that resulted. 
As for us of the Forrest AND STREAM, whom financial 
troubles overtook with others, we can hang green garlands 
upon the milestone that marks the year departed. Our 
journal is already a success, both pecuniarily and in the 
estimation in which it is held by its patrons at home and 
abroad. We presume no newspaper has ever started in this 
country which so soon established its position; and old 
journalists pronounce its success a marvel. We have re- 
_ ceived the recognition in Europe and here of leading scicn- 
tific men and institutions, and their actual support, in large 
measure. We promise much for the future, but not more 
than we can perform. Improvements in quantity and 
quality of our material will keep pace with the patronage 
vouchsafed to us. Our friends are both earnest and stead- 
fast, and we feel with kindly sympathy the warmth of the 
grip which the true brotherhood of sportsmen give us. 
Gentlemen: The protection given to our streams and 
forests, is a guaranty of abundant bags in future. What 
can we say with more earnest purpose or courteous expres- 
sion, than to wish you all A Happy New Yxar, and to 
express the hope that with the recurring seasons your bags 
may be always full, and your hearts overflow with kindness 
to all men, and especially to the beautiful dumb creatures 
who claim your protection and areentitledtoit. Brethren, 
we salute you ! 
—<$_$$<—<- > _____ 
CHampion Pornter Doe ‘“ Beitun.”—The portrait of 
this remarkable dog, the champion of England for 1878, 
the winner of the great Bala Field trials, for all aged 
pointers and setters, beating Mx, Macdona’s Ranger, Mr. 
Llewellen’s Countess and Flax, Mr. Slatter’s Rob Roy, &c., 
&c., with pedigree, and points made in the trial appended, 
sent by mail. Price, $1. Discount to thetrade. Forest 
AND STREAM Publishing Co., 103 Fulton street, N. Y. 
retrospective survey taken of obstacles successfully sur- 
mounted, and of work accomplished amidst checks and hin- 
drances. If impediments have been placed in our way, 
they have arisen solely from accidental causes, such as of 
the monetary crises, which affected all business, and not 
from any inherent fault within the paper itself. 
The projector of the Forest AND STREAM, had carefully 
surveyed the ground many years in advance, and was 
thoroughly imbued with the idea that the gentlemen of the 
United States, those who hunted and fished, who rowed 
and sailed, who played cricket or base ball, who loved 
horses and dogs, who were fond of rational sports, who 
discountenanced what was coarse and low, would take most 
kindly to just such a paper as he proposed to edit, and his 
aspirations cf success have been more than verified in the 
paper of his creation, the Forrest AND STREAM. 
From the very first number, issued August the 14th, 1878, 
the appreciation we have met with has been even a matter 
of surprise tous. To-day, with our twenty-first number, 
though in a newspaper sense we may be but a bantling as 
to years, we have been warmly taken in hand not only by 
the public, but by our older confréres of the press, and have 
been treated with a respect beyond our years (or months) 
or merits. 
Of course there must be always certain amount of indivi- 
ality about & paper which gives it its peculiar stamp, but 
the ForEsT AND STREAM owes its success and credit per- 
haps more to the efforts of of its contributors than to any- 
thing else. With us the task has been often a most diffi- 
cult and delicate one, to select from the varied richness 
which has been showered upon us. From North, South, 
East and West there has come to us matter of rare excel- 
lence, written with freshness and elegance, describing lo- 
calities, giving notes on birds and fishes, which have not 
only been of use to sportsmen, but have called the atten- 
yion of naturalists both at home and abroad. 
One, two or three men, no matter how thorough may be 
their journalistic training, from the peculiar character of 
their task, cannot, even at their best, always furnish that 
vigorous and natural matter which often emanates from 
fresher and younger pens, outside of the profession. We 
repeat, then, that our sincere thanks are due to our con- 
tributors, believing that the success of the Forest anp 
STREAM belongs more to. them.than to ourselves. 
But it is for us rather to’think of the time to come, and 
the advance the Forest AND STREAM must make in 
this year, than to expatiate on past performances. Now 
that the first course has been eaten, the appetite whetted, 
not satiated, what is coming by and by? 
It takes time, a long time, to arrange thoroughly all those 
various lines, which, like telegraph wires diverge from one 
common newspaper centre. The Forrest AND STREAM has 
arranged to have correspondence of interest furnished it 
from England, the Continent, and from the East. 
There is a homely adage ‘‘that the proof of the pudding 
is in the eating of it.’ When at this season the old year 
is lost sight of, and the new year, strong and lusty at his 
birth, is greeted with shouts and toasts and merry mak- 
ings, as the plum pudding is placed on the board, think of 
us, kind reader. . As we are with all of you this year in your 
rejoicings, (if not in person at least in spirit,) let us hope 
that we may be even better acquainted, and that a perma- 
nent frienpship may be made between you and the Forzstr 
AND STREAM, not only for this year of 1874, but for many 
a long year to come. 
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WHAT THEY -GHINKBOrR OUR RINE 
MOVEMENT IN ENGLAND. 
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NDER date of December 19th, the Volunteer Service 
Gazette, the official organ of the English Volunteer 
Force, copies in full from the columns of the Formst anp 
STREAM our extended reports of Creedmoor, and thus 
editorially comments upon the rifle movement in the United 
States :— 
““We have great pleasure in publishing, from a New 
York contemporary, a full report of the meeting of the 
United States Rifle Association in October last. We see 
that our American cousins are, already contemplating the 
probability of International Rifle matches. May we once 
more repeat that a team from the United States would be, 
we are sure, most heartily welcomed at’ Wimbledon, and 
that the objections we have so often urged against Huropean 
International competitions do not apply at all to the inter- 
change of visits of ‘eights’ or ‘twenties’ between Wimbledon 
and Creedmoor.” 
We perfectly agree with our contemporary in regard to 
the stupidity of bringing together on the rifle range in an 
International match, whole companies of men unaccustom- 
ed to the more delicate use of the rifle, who fire away mo- 
notously for hours, making ricochets and scoring nothing. 
Of course practice is necessary for all hands, and while we 
may watch with interest the exercises of eyen an awkward 
squad at the rifle range, when it comesto amatch one feels 
tired and disappointed at having to witness the efforts of 
tyros.” 
The reference the Volunteer Service Gazevtemakes to ‘‘the 
objections urged against European International matches,” is 
A vifle range is the place of course for both the muffs and 
experts. But when at some future time. our International 
match takes place and we send our men abroad, of course 
it will be only a most carefully selected team, which must 
represent the elite of our rifle shots, and should the Irish 
team, whose challenge was reeorded by us some time ago, 
pay us a visit, we may feel pretty sure that the best rifle 
men in Ireland will he selected. 
We sincerely trust that the challenge thrown out by Mr. 
Leech in behalf of the Irish Rifle Association, will be taken 
up by the members of our own National Rifle Association, 
and that the Amateur Rifle Club, will make all due arrange- 
ments for their reception, and will have the authority to 
select such American marksmen as they may think the 
most fitting to enter in the contest. Whether it would be 
wise to accept the challenge for the coming season of 1874 
or to postpone it until our own men have had more practice 
at long ranges, we suppose the Amateur Rifle Club will best 
be able to determine. 
We feel, though, very certain that when we are honored 
by a visit from the English or Irish Rifle Teams, the same 
courtesy on the range, which welcomed our Provincial 
rifle friends, and which they have most pleasantly acknowl- 
edged, ill be extended to all the members of the English 
Volunteer Service.: 
The Volunteer Service Gazette concludes the review of 
Creedmoor as follows in regard to the Irish challenge 
victory :— 
‘““The conditions of the challenge are liberal, and do not 
impose ny seriously objectionable restrictions. 
The want of experier ce and need of a reliable long-range 
rifle of American mazufacture may cause some mistrust, 
but should the American National Rifle Association accept 
and invite the English and Scotch teams to participate, 
Wimbledon could scarcely create more interest or a greater 
furore than Creedmoor.” Just as we were writing this, 
we have the intelligence of the 
ACCEPTANCE OF THE CHALLENGE. 
In pursuance of the resolution of the Amateur Rifle Club, 
published in the Forrest anp Stream of November 27th, 
a letter has been addressed to their President, Captain Geo. 
W. Wingate, to A. Blenerhasset Leech, the Captain of the 
Irish Team, stating the willingness of that Club to accept 
the challenge on behalf of themselves and the riflemen of 
America, and asking Mr. Leech to specify the nature of the 
deposit referred to in his letter. No objection is made to 
the terms of the challenge, except, that as the range at 
Creedmoor is limited to one thousand yards, the firing must 
not exceed that distance. 
The letter closes with the remark, that while the Amateur 
Club, from their recent organization, are not very sanguine 
of surpassing marksmen of such renown as Mr. Leech’s 
Irish Team, yet, they have no hesitation of assuring them 
of a cordial welcome to this country. 

PRIZE AND FIELD DOGS. 
ae 
Vez of the pointers and setters imported from abroad 
of late years, have gained a high reputation at prize 
dogs, animals that have taken medals and cups as some 
well advertised prize dog-show. For weeks previous to the 
show, these dogs have been carefully fed, combed, brushed 
and medically treated, in order that they may appear on 
the day of competition, with all their points standing out 
in symmetrical array before the sensitive eye of the judges. 
Not satisfied with all this overwrought preparation, the ex- 
hibitors even go further; the cages and kennels are all nicely 
painted, so that the color of the dog may harmonize with 
the exact shade of the kennel, and so show the dog to the 
ever critical eye to the best advantage. Again these 
animals are clothed in an elaborately worked coat, covering 
the shoulders, ribs and hind-quarters, leaving only the 
head, legs and part of the neck of the dog to be distinctly 
seen by the oz pollot; so that the general public have no op- 
portunity of judging of some of the most important 
parts of the animal—that is the chest, ribs and _hind- 
quarters. We, of course, admit that the head of any 
animal, like the head of man, is or ought to be the promi- 
nent characteristic feature of the entire body; but we do 
consider as ranking next in importance, the hind-quarters or 
propelling part of the dog. Many sportsmen have remarked 
to the writer about prize dogs in language like the follow- 
ing: ‘‘ What a splendid dog he is to look at! How beauti- 
fully his head is shaped! Quite the correct color for shoot- 
ing over! Observe his fine feathered tail and silky coat!” 
Just take him out in the field, however, and he will be 
found for shooting over game not worth the powder to kill 
him. 
Now take the case of field dogs. They must perform 
well or they are worthless for any and every purpose. As 
a general thing those field dogs are not the beau-ideal of 
perfection of beauty, nor are they the marvels of symmetry 
that most persons outside the shooting fraternity imagine 
them to be, but take them into the scrub oak and brush, 
which is the only test of a dog for the purchaser and sports 
man, it is there these animals show thcir wonderful breed- 
ing, training and extraordinary bringing out of the dorman 
