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RECREA TION. 



One of the most important sections of the 

 bill is that relating to cold storage. It reads 

 in part as follows: " It shall be unlawful and 

 is prohibited to have in possession during 

 the close season therefor, any fish or game, 

 whether lawfully or unlawfully taken, and it 

 is hereby made the duty of any owner or 

 occupant of any cold storage warehouse to 

 permit the examination of the premises by 

 any officer authorized to enforce the game 

 laws, who shall seize any fish or game found 

 in the possession of the warehousemen "dur- 

 ing the closed season." 



Another vital part of the bill is that pro- 

 hibiting spring shooting. This proposition 

 is now endorsed by nearly all of the best 

 sportsmen even-where and the sooner all 

 states adopt this measure the better for all 

 concerned. 



It should not take more than half a day to 

 pas? this joint bill through the legislatures 

 of the 4 states named. 



COLD STORAGE GAME IS POISONOUS' 



Here is a communication of vital impor- 

 tance to everyone who eats game. The 

 writer, Dr. Robert T. Morris, is one of the 

 most prominent physicians in this city. He 

 is an adjunct professor of surgery at the New 

 York Post Graduate Medical College, the 

 author of " How We Treat Wounds To- 

 day." " Lectures on Appendicitis," and other 

 valuable scientific books and papers. 



I asked Doctor Morris for an opinion on 

 this all important question and he replies as 

 follows : 



New York. December 15, 1898. 



Dear Mr. Shields: Answering your query 

 about the unwholesomeness of cold storage 

 game, I would say that when albuminous 

 substances, like meat, milk, eggs or cheese 

 are subjected to a temperature sufficiently 

 low to prevent the free development of the 

 common bacteria of putrefaction, they seem 

 to be still open to attack by certain sapro- 

 phyte bacteria, the toxines of which are 

 harmful. These toxines in milk, ice cream 

 and cheese often prove violently poisonous, 

 and many fatal cases are reported. 



In meats, especially in cold storage game, 

 the toxines do not often accumulate in suffi- 

 cient quantity to produce dangerous symp- 

 toms, but they are apt to cause pretty severe 

 gastro-intestinal irritation, and I presume 

 few people who have eaten much cold stor- 

 age game have failed to suffer at least from 

 diarrhoea from its effects. One might eat a 

 good deal of cold storage game before com- 

 ing upon any important quantity of toxines, 

 but there is always so much speculation 

 about it that when ordering game at a res- 

 taurant I make the waiter interview the chef 

 to make sure that no cold storage game will 

 be sent to fill my order. Cold storage game 

 is not served at any decent restaurant be- 

 cause it loses flavor and juice to such an ex- 

 tent that a good class of people keep away 

 from any place where any such stuff is served 



to patrons. A certain restaurant near here 

 is in disfavor with several patrons whom I 

 know because the steward, apparently, wish- 

 ing to economize, tried to deceive patrons 

 with cold storage game. Perhaps he ren- 

 dered a bill for fresh game and pocketed the 

 difference in price. I do not know about that 

 but I do know there was an exodus of good 

 game patrons. Restauranteurs do not know 

 why they lose such customers, but the cus- 

 tomers know and they tell other people. 

 Every first-class restaurant should state on 

 the menu that no cold storage game is of- 

 fered to tempt the palates and to test the in- 

 wards of the guests. 



Yours truly, 

 Robt. T. Morris. A.M., M.D. 



This raises a question of great importance, 

 not only to sportsmen, but to all others who 

 eat game of any kind that is kept in cold 

 storage. If there is danger in eating game 

 that has been thus preserved, it should be 

 widely advertised and I should be glad to 

 have a free and full discussion of the ques- 

 tion. Will not physicians and others who 

 have known of persons being poisoned by 

 eating cold storage game kindly make 

 known the facts and thus oblige all readers 

 of Recreation? — Editor. 



STOP THE SALE OF GAME. 



Grand Rapids. Mich. 



Editor Recreation: I believe, if we can 

 get a law passed in all the States prohibiting 

 the sale of any kind of game or game fishes, 

 at any season of the year, it will do more to 

 accomplish our purpose than any other one 

 thing we can do. Limiting the bag does 

 not have the desired effect. Our deer limit 

 in this State is 5, yet I am satisfied that some 

 of the old hunters in the Northern Penin- 

 sula are killing from 50 to 100 a year, for 

 which they find a ready market in Detroit, 

 at prices that are better than average day 

 wages. These men begin hunting about 

 2 weeks before the legal season opens, and 

 on the first day of the season they begin 

 shipping. They keep up their shipping un- 

 til the last day of the season. The 5 deer 

 limit is no earthly good. What we want is a 

 law that will prohibit the sale of game. Then 

 we can squelch the market hunter; and, 

 when he is out of business we can regulate 

 the sportsman hunter with a limit bag. In 

 fact, I am satisfied that 9 out of 10 of the 

 sportsmen, so-called, make every effort pos- 

 sible to kill their limit, and even more. 



I know a lot of hunters who have hunted 

 as hard as they could every day since the 

 season opened to get deer enough to pay 

 their expenses. They are more interested in 

 the price of. game than any other one thing 

 .1 know of during the open deer season, here 

 in Michigan. 



I have just returned from a trip North; 

 and, when I got 2 deer, I came home. While 

 in that territory, I was told by one man, a 



