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Show A Mighty 'MassacKusetts Hunter. Roland Smithy who lives In the town of Sheffield, probably holds the record locally 'as a hunter of musk rats, says the Springfield Republican. 'Every ybnr durlng'tho January thaws, ho In company with a man spenda the warm days shooting rats .and-they .and-they hnvo capturod a great many This month during tho twpdays that tho waten ovorjlowed the. meadows they went out in' a boat And killed between be-tween 150 and 1G0 rnta. Theso will bring from CO to 75 cents a pelt, according ac-cording to .the slzo nnd qual ty of tho fur. Mr. Smith hunts tho wits with a rifle and in this way Is able to kill them, ? without .damaging the Hkln tn nny p,Y.tnnt: gnmotlmon whw lt la necessary1 u shotgun is used. |