Note 2 — Chapter III

For the following data concerning the history of the “split-bamboo” we are indebted to articles by Messrs. William Mitchell and Lawrence D. Alexander, appearing in vol. II of Sport with Gun and Rod, published by The Century Co., in 1883, though their original source is The American Angler. Mr. Mitchell himself first made a split-cane rod, in four longitudinal sections of Chinese bamboo, “which is much harder and more homogeneous,” in June, 1869.