Dec. 29, 1906.I 
FOREST AND STREAM 
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Presumptive Evidence. 
Attention is called by a correspondent o-f the 
New York Tribune to the following section of 
the game law of this State: “Woodcock, grouse 
and quail shall not be sold or possessed during 
the close season, except in the month of Decem¬ 
ber, and possession or sale thereof during Decem¬ 
ber shall be presumptive evidence that they were 
unlawfully taken by the possessor.” The be¬ 
wildered correspondent asks: If why, what? If 
why not, which?” Who can blame him? The 
making of laws is an art which has not been 
fully mastered, and this is not the only instance 
of a statute so carelessly worded as to leave its 
meaning in doubt. It seems not unreasonable 
to suggest that the next Legislature so revise 
this section that the ordinary citizen may know 
whether the law permits or forbids him to 
possess and sell woodcock, grouse and quail dur¬ 
ing the month of December.—Rochester 
Chronicle. 
[There is no contradiction here nor any ground 
for uncertainty. The term “presumptive evidence” 
is a common one in the statutes. The meaning 
of the provision is that while possession in De¬ 
cember is authorized, the possessor, if called on 
to do so, must prove that he became possessed of 
the birds in the open season or by bringing them 
from out of the State. The “presumption” is 
that he did not come by them lawfully; he must 
therefore show that he did.] 
Rodmakers in Demand. 
, In both England and the United States the de¬ 
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is noticeable, and it is significant that in every 
instance workmen of the highest accomplish¬ 
ments only are insisted on. Redditch firms are 
advertising for men, not in small “want ads,” 
but in large type in quarter-pages. This is the 
season when rodmakers are busily employed in 
preparing rough stock in large quantities for their 
winter’s work of selecting, fitting, mounting and 
finishing their rods, and judging from what we 
can learn, it seems they have reason to believe 
that next year’s demand will be a very large one. 
Winsted, Conn., Dec. 15.-—There is no use of 
praising Forest and Stream to one who has been 
in the “Old North Woods” for forty years. 
I would not be without it if it cost ten dollars 
a year. C. S. Foster. 
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Mr. Hammond enjoys among his field companions the 
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