Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-03-07
SPORTING NOTES.
Efforts to Protect Game-Dentistry APP
Piled to Ouarrelsone Ftsh-Etc.


Efforts to Protect Game-Dentistry APP
Piled to Quarrelsone Fish-Etc-
There is quite strong movement In
New York to protect the game OF the
State, and as is always the case, the efforts
to protect are met with active opposition
by those from whom the game need protec-
ton. The game dealers of course are anx
ious to always have game to sell, and hence
are often favorable to the side of the Illicit
game-shooters. The Forest and Scream,
referring to the movement in that State,
says: The game dealers have huge refrig-
orators in which they can store game and
keep it indefinitely. They are very anx-
ions now to have license to cram these
warehouses with all the game they can
secure in open season and then sell it in
the close season. They are also anxious
to arrange the laws so that the cold-storage
warehouses can he utilized to cloak
the traffic in game killed out of
season. When they gain the right
to load up their refrigerators
with the spells secured by the market
hunters in the open season, and the oppor-
tunity to receive and dispose OF game killed
wherever it can be killed by the market
hunters in the close season, they will be
satisfied. They set out to do this some
years ago The services of a New York
lawyer were secured. He was ostensibly an
ardent game protector; and under his en-
cheering the famous, or infamous, re-
frigerator amendment was put forward as
if coming from the Long Island sportsmen.
This was cunning scheme, but we exposed
the nature of the bill, and it was killed.
The next year a like bill was presented,
and this was also killed The other day
the game dealers, apparently distressing
their "sportsmen allies, formed society
OF their own, and in a half-horse and half
alligator title for it announced that it was
for the protection of game and game deal
ers. The game protection part was rank
hypocrisy. The game dealer protection
part was sincere. They subscribed fund
of money, hired lawyer, and have pre-
pared a bill which was introduced by Mr..
Church, Of Queens, last Tuesday This
year around, provided it be killed outside
of the State. The latter clause is intended
to blind the public. With such law the
game of this State will be sold whenever it
can be captured. The Adirondack deer,
the Long Island woodstock, the grouse and
I the quail will be given no rest until ex-
! terminated The Church bill is iniquitous
1t ought never TO come back from the com
mlttee.
FISH DENTISTRY.
The gist of story told by Seth Green
in the hmevicar. Angler, is contained in the
following: CHANGING to glance at the fish
in an aquarium ia the window Of con-
fectionery establishment in Rochester, n.
| Y, noticed that all the fish but one bore
scars Of conflict The fish were California
and brook trout, and the injuries were in
| ficted by one of the former. Itseems that
one of the trout was of a sour, quarrelsome
disposition, and had been in the habit of
worrying the others peraistently. sug-
gested the removal OF the offending trout,
as We are occasionally troubled by such
| fellows among the trout in the Caledonia
fsh-ponds, and the usual remedy is to spear
and make an end of the would be destroyer
of his fellow-companio One Of these
uuarrelsome trout would otherwise wound
and cause the death of a large number of
| Others But the proprietor objected to
| adopting the remedy suggested, and
{ trouble continued to exist in the
aquarium. l revisited the establishment
day or two subsequently. Procuring
pair OF pinchers, took the big trout from
the water and extracted its teeth, aud
those that could not be drawn,
cut down with knife, exercising as
much care as possible, 50 as not to injure
the fish by handling The offending fish,
although apparently none the worse for
the operation, ceased to attach. his com
panions. / will say that the teeth Of trout
are not used for the mastication of food,
but are intended to aid the fish in main
! tanning hold of its prey. Trout in ponds
and acquariums have therefore no actual
need of teeth, for the reason that they are
not obliged to seek their own food The
experiment expected would result in the
death OF the fish, but I was happily disap-
yoirted u