Sept. 2, 1911.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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TAGGED GAME. 
Beginning Eriday, Sept. 1, when the Bayne 
bill goes into effect, it will be illegal for any¬ 
one to buy .or sell game killed in the State of 
New York—with the single exception of game 
raised on preserves and killed otherwise than 
with a gun—and furthermore, no one can law¬ 
fully negotiate the sale or purchase within the 
State of any game from other States similar to 
the species native to New York. In order that 
all game birds offered for sale in New York's 
markets may be identified, says the Evening 
Sun, the bill provides that they be tagged with 
lead seals in such a manner that it may instantly 
be determined who imported the game. 
In short, the Bayne bill keeps New York State 
from being a market for much of the game 
killed in the United States. A heavy penalty 
is also imposed for breaking any of its pro¬ 
visions. Game in general may still be imported 
from Europe, but all of it must be tagged imme¬ 
diately upon arrival. Since the Bayne bill will 
go into effect on Sept. 1, it is the duty of Joseph 
V. Sauter, assistant chief game protector in 
charge of the metropolitan and Long Island dis¬ 
tricts to see that every piece of game now in 
the cold storage vaults in New York city is 
properiy tagged before that time. 
In the big refrigerating plants on North 
Moore street that are used as clearing houses 
for much of the game sold in this city, M.r. 
Sauter and nine assistants are working from 7 
o’clock in the morning until 6 o’clock at night 
in order to finish the task of tagging and classi¬ 
fying 175,000 game birds before the Bayne bill 
becomes a law next Friday. In the “freezers” 
of the refrigerating plants are hundreds of 
boxes, barrels, crates, kegs, tubs and firkins 
packed and jammed with snipe, plover, teal, mal¬ 
lards, blackduck, quail, pheasants, wild geese and 
other kinds of game birds. 
Every one of these birds has to be taken 
from the “freezers” where they are kept in a 
temperature of 6 degrees below zero, carried 
down on the elevators, unpacked, sorted, tagged, 
repacked and sent back to the “freezers” again. 
The task of tagging the birds has now become 
a race against time, and before Friday of next 
week an average of between 15,000 and 20,000 
birds must be tagged every day. This requires 
that each man should tag from 1,500 to 2,000 
birds daily. 
After the game has been tagged and repacked 
the dealers must dispose of all the American 
game birds and animals in their “freezers” be¬ 
fore the new law goes into effect. One merchant 
alone has to get rid of more than 66,000 Ameri¬ 
can birds, and a number of deer as well in the 
next five days. 
Mr. Sauter realizes the difficulties confronting 
him in handling and marking 175,000 birds be¬ 
fore the time is up, but to give every piece of 
game its required legal status before the time 
limit expires, Thursday at midnight, he declares 
that he will work his men in day and night shifts 
if necessary. Pete, the elevator man, is sure “it 
can’t be done,” and in support of his opinion 
called attention to the fact that the birds when 
taken from their boxes in a frozen condition are 
often welded into an almost solid mass that 
must be separated into individual birds. If the 
game remains in the temperature of the street 
for any length of time and becomes partly “un¬ 
froze,” to quote Pete again, increased difficulties 
are experienced when the process of repacking 
begins. 
In speaking of the benefits to be derived from 
the Bayne bill, Mr. Sauter recently said: “It 
will make New York State a sportsman’s para¬ 
dise by doing away with the selling of game 
birds, and as such I believe that this bill will 
constitute an excellent foundation on which to 
build future laws in regard to game protection 
in this and other States. The Bayne bill alone 
will greatly decrease the wholesale killing of 
game in other States—particularly the killing of 
ducks in Mattituck Sound, North Carolina— 
since New York city has always been one of 
the biggest markets in the country for American 
game. 
“Of course,” continued Mr. Sauter, “we game 
wardens will often have to use common sense 
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