The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-03-11
TO STOP Por-HUNTlNc.
Rsprssentaiivs Tseht's nan Creates -
Sensation Among Spsrssmeu.

RoDreoe0tAtive fOchCS 0ttt Cfeoses -
Sensation Among Spsrssmes.
Representative Focht, OF Union
County, on Feb. 10th. introduced in-
to the Pennsylvania Legislature, a
bill that should have the endorse
ment and approval Of eveay sports
man in the State. Ifyou are favor
able to the provisions of the bill We
hope you Will request your Senator
and Member to vote for it. aud also
call the attention of your local press
to the measure. We believe the
number of birds killed is paramount
to the time in which the killing shall
be done. A season entirely satisfac-
tory to the extreme Southern por-
tions of the State, the Central and
Northern section can never be fixed.
This point must always bs a COM
promise. But it is possible to save
our game from the hand of the cold
storage expert, aud leave the field
open for the business man and boys
who hunt for recreation.
Referring to the bill introduced
by Mr.. Focht, the Lewisburg Sdtur-
day Ners, of Feb. 18th, in u letter
from Harrisburg, says:
"A game bill introduced this week
is a hummer, and has already Great
ed u sensation among the sportsmen
of the State. 1t is modelled after
the New York State law and is de-
signed to knockout the pot hunter
and expert bird exterminator who
shoots to slaughter, aud to give the
average country gunner chance to
see q feather once in a while when
out hunting III the spirit of the true
sportsmen, which is for recreation.
The bill provides that no person
shall offer for sale any quail, pleas
ant or wood.cock, under a penalty
of five dollars for each bird. No
restaurant keeper or dealer in lei
chaudise shall employ anyone to cap.
ture or kill any of the birds above
mentioned under Il penalty of TWEEN.
ty-fve dollars for each and every
bird purchased. Transportation
companies are not allowed to re
ceive or transport any birds after
same have been killed under q pen
atty Of twenty-five dollars. The
person making the information and
procuring q conviction shall be IN
titled to oLe-half Of the fine, the
other half to 20 to the game CON-
m~issioners of propogating game
birds. Every bird killed or trans.
ported shall be considered . separ.
ate ofanse. No person shall be pre-
vented from killing any such birds
in the lawful season for the use of
himself or his family. nor the carry
ing by such person into railroad
tkolub VI COLuulOn C0AAloH uOG mOT0 |
than twelve wood-cock at one time,
and not more than twelye'pheasants
at any one time. The act does not
prohibit the carrying Of birds killed
in other states by transportation
companies. Where the pot hunter
and game butcher gets it in the neck
is here: It shall be unlawful to kill
in any one day more than five pleas
ants nor more than eight wood-cock
by any one person, under a penalty
Of five dollars for each bird killed.
If We can get this bill through the
fellow who hunts for the market for
and is hired by the cold stor-
age trusts to go into the rural dis
tricts on tours of determination,
will be out of a job, and a few birds
will be left for the rural boys and
yunners who hunt for sport as much
IS to secure game"