Fes, 24, 1906.] 
FORESTVAND STREAM. 

most of the States impose a license fee on non- 
resident hunters, it has become almost a necessity 
for Massachusetts to take that method of further 
protecting her game. 
Mr. A. B. F, Kinney, of Worcester, and sev- 
eral others spoke in favor of the bill, and no one 
appeared in remonstrance. It seems probable that 
the committee will, in due time, render a favor- 
able report on the bill. 
On the same day a hearing was given on Sen- 
ate bill 184, accompanying petition of Mr. Bayard 
Thayer and others that persons propagating 
pheasants may shoot them on their own premises. 
The bill amends section 16 of chapter 92 of the 
Revised Laws by adding this proviso, viz., that 
any person may, between Oct. 15 and Nov. 30, 
both inclusive, upon lands owned or controlled by 
him, and subject to the approval of the Board of 
Commissioners for Fisheries and Game, shoot, or 
permit to be shot any of said birds which have 
been procured, bred or propagated at his own cost 
or expense and liberated on said premises. 
Attorney-General Herbert Parker appeared for 
the petitioner. It appeared in evidence that the 
Thayers have bred pheasants in large numbers 
and that these birds have spread over the adjacent 
country, some having gone a distance of a dozen 
miles:or more. The fact that the pheasant is not 
looked upon with much favor as a game bird by 
sportsmen generally may, in part, account for the 
fact that no one appeared in remonstrance; and 
if a proposition were put forward to take the law 
off those birds the present year, in the opinion of 
the writer, there would be little opposition, if any, 
from our sportsmen. A favorable report on this 
bill is anticipated. 
House bill 850 puts a close season on wood or 
summer duck, That bill was strongly advocated 
by several persons on the 14th. ‘This bill is sup- 
ported by the State Association, our president be- 
ing much interested in it. The hearing has been 
continued to Feb. 28. 
Senate bill 117, on possession of ferrets, put in 
by the Commissioners, is designed to put a stop 
to the extensive use of those animals in rabbit 
hunting which now prevails in some parts of the 
State. Should the bill become a law owners of 
ferrets must register them with the Commission, 
they must als notify the Commissioners in writ- 
ing on the day a ferret or ferrets leave the pos- 
session of the former owner or possessor and give 
the name of the person into whose possession the 
ferret passes, otherwise they are liable to Gonfis- 
cation and the possessor to a fine of not more 
than $10 for each ferret in possession. The bill 
was favored by all who appeared and the hearing 
closed. 
House bill 851, presented by the State Associa- 
tion, aims to close or at least greatly restrict the 
marketing of ducks and pinnated grouse. House 
bill 853, by the Association, makes the sale sea- 
son for quail the same as the shooting season. 
These bills were urged by Mr. George Mackey, 
C. H. Nowell, of the Eastern Massachusetts Club; 
Mr. A. B. F. Kinney and others, and in compli- 
ance with a request from the writer the further 
hearing was postponed to Feb. 28 in order that 
Dr. Palmer may be heard upon them. On that 
date it is expected the cold storage and market 
interests will marshal their forces. 
House bill 825, presented by the State Asso- 
ciation, provides for taking away the privilege of 
snaring grouse, hares and rabbits which land 
Owners now have on their own premises. The 
Commissioners had put in a similar bill applying 
to grouse only, but at the hearing on the 14th 
the chairman said they would prefer the Associa- 
tion bill. No one appeared in remonstrance and 
a favorable report is not improbable. 
On Wednesday, Feb. 21, a bill to give more 
powers to Commissioners and their deputies will 
be heard, and one giving them a right to search 
the person of the man afield under certain con- 
ditions. It would seem that a deputy seeing a 
man that he knows is out in pursuit of game, and 
perhaps is morally sure has game upon him, 
should have a right to compel him to show what 
he has or as an alternative accompany the deputy 
into the presence of a justice that a warrant may 
be obtained before the hunter has an opportunity 
in any way to dispose of his game. 
H. H. Kimsatt. 

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