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COLD STORAGE AND GAME. 
Tue Butchers’ Advocate, which is an organ of 
the cold storage game dealing interests of New 
York and Chicago, reports an interview which a 
representative of the Advocate had with Forest, 
Fish and Game Commissioner James S, Whipple 
relative to the enforcement of the laws governing 
the sale of game. One complaint was that the 
protector did not attempt to get evidence of vio- 
lation of the law until near the close of the open 
season, thus failing to make examples of offend- 
ers early in the season to serve as warnings to 
other law violators. The Advocate man thought 
that earlier prosecutions should be made, in order 
that the trade might be warned in time. 
Another protest was against the fee system, 
which makes the remuneration of the protectors 
depend in a measure upon the amount of fines 
imposed for violations, the moities going to the 
protectors. This is a subject concerning which 
much may be said on both sides. The hope of 
financial reward is a potent and valuable stimu- 
_ lant to enterprise on the part of the protector; it 
supplements his salary, gives him something to 
work for, and promotes activity. There can be 
no question of this. On the other hand, as Com- 
missioner Whipple suggested the other day, when 
a case is in court the counsel for the defense is 
likely to influence the jury against the prosecu- 
tion by urging that the suit is brought by the 
protector for his own pecuniary benefit, and that 
therefore he is not an unbiased witness; and 
sometimes this argument is so plausible as to defeat 
the ends of justice. We have known protectors 
who recognized this obstacle to securing convic- 
tions, and who have expressed a desire to have 
the law so modified as to take away their moie- 
ties. It is doubtful, however, if on the whole 
the plan of making the protectors’ remuneration 
dependent in a degree on their securing convic- 
tions is not the most advantageous system. 
The result of the Albany interview was a 
demonstration by Commissioner Whipple that all 
the actions of the protector complained of had 
been strictly within the law, and the Butchers’ 
Advocate expresses the conviction that “the only 
relief from this, to say the least, unpleasant 
application of the law must come from an attack 
on the law itself.” It thinks that it is inconceiv- 
able that the trade will continue to rest under 
the present condition, and dealers are urged to 
combine for an effort to modify the law to suit 
the business interests of those who traffic in 
game, 
It is quite natural that the game dealers should 
be dissatisfied. They want nothing less than the 
right to sell all the game they can get, at any 
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time, and without restriction. As the law now 
stands they are compelled to conduct a clandes- 
tine and illicit trade. For example, when the 
item of quail appears on the ménu of the Royal 
Poinciana at Palm Beach, it means that a thou- 
sand quail must be provided for the thousand 
guests. These birds are shipped from New York 
city, they are picked by night and hustled off by 
night to Florida. They are not manufactured in 
New York city. They come from _ outside 
sources. For the most part—such are the non- 
export laws of the several States—they have been 
shipped into New York unlawfully and _ clan- 
destinely; they are forbidden articles of com- 
merce, traded in by men who are willing to 
become law violators for the sake of what there 
is in it. Jf the law were changed to give them 
more jatitude they would still violate it. The 
more the law allows them the more they will 
take. In dealing with the cold storage game 
interests we are dealing with a class of whom 
a certain number will take every possible oppor- 
tunity to sell game in the close time and in con- 
travention of the law. The statute must be kept 
as it stands, or modified, if necessary, with a view 
to curbing the practice of these dishonest game 
traders. What the situation calls for is not a 
concession to their demands, but a more strin- 
gent law, and a more vigorous enforcement of it. 
THE .DOG IN AMERICA. 
In the matter of good dogs and plenty of them 
the advancement from little to great has been 
rapid indeed during the past few years in 
America. Time was, not so many years ago, 
when an American dog fancier might talk with 
assurance in the positive degree, but in the com- 
parative he was properly humble, so far as Eng- 
land was concerned. To that land was conceded 
full leadership in matters of accurate knowledge, 
preponderance of numbers and uniform excel- 
lence, all these as they relate to the different 
breeds of dogs in general and particular. In the 
main, English canine standards were and are 
recognized as the true ones for all American 
fanciers to emulate. In all else, we are in a fair 
way to be self-supporting in dog breeding. 
The American canine interests of to-day are 
well out of their swaddling clothes. They show 
many signs of confidence, of strength, of inde- 
pendence. 
The Westminster Kennel Club show, taking 
place this week in Madison Square Garden, New 
York, is a comforting index of American ad- 
vancement in many important canine ways, and 
in none is its progress more significant than as to 
foreign judges. None were engaged to act at 
this show. Independence of imported judges 
may reasonably be considered as achieved. Here- 
tofore, through many years, it has been a practice 
of the Westminster Kennel Club to secure one 
or more of the English judges to officiate at its 
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shows. ‘This set the pace for many other clubs 
throughout the United States in what was con- 
sidered the correct thing in American judging 
interests. The foreign judging was supposed to 
confer an atmosphere of doggy wisdom, an over- 
the-sea prestige, a mysterious accuracy of award 
without which the great American show would 
lose the interest if not the confidence of large 
numbers of unnamed fanciers. The judges’ list 
this year is confined exclusively to home talent. 
The result is a record breaking entry of 3,013, 
the total number of dogs being 1,951, as against 
2,713 entries last year, with a total number of 
1,752 dogs. 
Thus the fallacy of the foreign judge 
calamity in his absence has collapsed. Thus also 
is demonstrated that besides being independent of 
imported wisdom, the United States is in a fair 
way soon to be in the leadership in the matter 
of canine quantity. In the matter of quality the 
average is high as a whole. Indeed, were it not 
so, there would be nothing to justify the expen- 
Sive importations from Europe through past years. 
All this beneficence in the conditions of the dog 
world was not the result of chance. Intelligent 
care, foresight, skill and money were all com- 
bined to effect the ultimate result of the forma- 
tion and activity of the special clubs that have 
been a great contributing cause to improvement 
of the breeds which they safeguarded and cher- 
ished. They encouraged the improvement of 
neglected breeds, they disseminated knowledge 
of true standards and the sources of pure supply, 
and prizes and honors were incentives to com- 
petition and effort. The trend was for better- 
ment everywhere. Over all, during the years of 
progress, was the beneficent guardianship and 
initiative of the American Kennel Club. Its 
powers, prestige and benefits were national. 
Whatever may have been its errors there is no 
question that its purposes and acts have been for 
the general good of the dog world; and the great 
advancement in the American canine world, as 
exemplified at the great dog show of the West- 
minster Kennel Club, is an index of its still 
greater growth and fame. 
and 
Tue remarkably mild winter in this latitude, 
with climatic conditions suggestive of Louisiana 
and Mississippi and an unusually light snowfall, 
has been extremely favorable to the well-being of 
feathered game. In the northern limits of the 
range of the quail severe winters are recognized 
to be the chief agency of destruction, and con- 
versely when we have a season of such excep- 
tional mildness as this, we look for an increased 
supply of birds to follow. With covers bare of 
snow the quail have not been deprived of food; 
whatever may be in store for them in the few 
remaining weeks before spring shall be here, no 
prolonged stress of weather is to be expected, 
and the birds will begin the breeding season in 
vigorous physical condition. 
