MarcH Io, 1906.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 

ments to the revised laws in three sections; first, 
in the interest of greater protection in this State; 
second, in the interest of a ‘square deal’ to all 
citizens; third, in the interest of comity toward 
other States in not allowing provisions under the 
Massachusetts law which encourages and directly 
incites violations of the laws of the Western 
States and Territories, and particularly of the 
Federal law with the enforcement of which I am 
charged *” 
Dr. Palmer submitted to the committee affida- 
vits from United States Deputy Marshals in Chi- 
cago as to shipments of game to Boston in viola- 
tion of the laws, and enumerated fines from $100 
to $400 that had been imposed on the shippers. 
“That is what your market exemption results 
in,’ said the Doctor. “These violations react on 
Massachusetts, as in severe winters the quail in 
the State are depleted. It is a question of the 
greatest good to the greatest number, and the in- | 
terest of the dealers should not be allowed to 
sacrifice the game of the country.” 
Of the cases of illegal shipments of game in | 
Chicago that have been investigated by the De- 
partment, Dr. Palmer declared that a large per- 
centage was for the game in transit to the Boston 
market. 
Mr. C. T. Chapin said that the game dealers 
had not supposed they were breaking any laws 
in receiving game from Chicago and Oklahoma. 
It is clear that if Mr. Chapin’s statement is true 
of the dealers generally, Dr. Palmer’s testimony 
must have been to them a revelation, and they 
should be glad of such changes in Massachusetts 
statutes as will prevent them from unwittingly 
aiding or inciting the violation of law anywhere, 
either State or National. The old Bay State 
should not longer be stigmatized as an accessory 
to crime by openly legalizing in her statutes prac- 
tices which directly or indirectly offer a premium 
on the violation of game laws. ; 
I wish to give your readers a bit of interesting 
testimony by one of the dealers—we will call him 
Smith, Said Mr. Smith: “You perhaps do not 
realize the immense advantage this sale of cold 
storage game is in helping keep the law enforced 
here. As an illustration, a man wants to give a 
dinner party. He comes to us and says, ‘We want 
some partridges.’ We say ‘the law is on; we can’t 
sell you any. You know partridges have to be 
carved. Quail can be served whole, we have 
them on sale.’ He will say, ‘Very well, we will 
have quail.’ Now, if you had a law prohibiting 
us from selling quail that we have purchased 
legally and placed in cold storage, the customer 
would go to his dealer who supplies him poultry 
-and provisions and the chances are ninety in a 
hundred the man would say to him, ‘I want some 
partridges, and he would get them. I know lots 
of cases of that kind. And you say, ‘Where did 
you get the partridges?’? The answer will be, ‘We 
shot them.’ As a matter of fact, they had been 
bought and very likely the seller never fired a 
gun in his life. I think to stop the sale of quail 
would do more harm than good to Massachu- 
setts birds.” 
The above was the testimony of a dealer at the 
hearing, almost word for word. 
The dealers asked a continuance, which, as 
their time was limited, met with no objection 
from anyone and was granted. Hearing con- 
tinued to Friday, March 9. 
H. H. KIMBALL. 
Skates and Rifles. 
THE latest thing in target shooting is the skat- 
ing rifle match. A target is set up on the edge 
of the pond or stream. Two lines are drawn on 
the ice, one ten yards above the target, the other 
ten yards below. The contestants, at given dis- 
tances, skate across the ice, and when between the 
two lines, while skating at full speed, aim and 
fire at the target. This novelty has excited great 
interest in certain ice-bound districts. It is 
hardly necessary to call attention to the extreme 
caution which should be exercised in setting up 
a target of this kind. Firing is apt to be wild, 
and when a bullet has once left the muzzle there 
is no device yet discovered by which it may be 
recalled, even though speeding straight for a 
farmhouse. 


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