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l^isSme ® and ^ ^uBtivm» 
 
 Hunting Grounds of Southeast Missouri 
 and Arkansas. 
 
 Lakes, Rivers and Streams of Soutlieast 
 — 1— T^j^-, — Missouri and Arkansas. 
 
 THIS REGION ABOUNDS IN GAME AND GAME FISH. 
 
 The following Rivers are Reached by this Route. 
 
 MERAMEC RIVER, CURRENT RIVER, WHITE RIVER, 
 
 B!G RIVFR, CASTOR RIVER, WACHITA RIVER, 
 
 ST. FRANCIS RIVER, GREEN RIVER, LITTLE RIVER, 
 
 BLACK RIVER, CACHE RIVER, L'ANGUILLE RIVER, 
 
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 IRON MOUNTAIN ROUTE. 
 
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 The Paradise of the Hunter and Fishepman 
 
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 TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
 
 Page. Index 
 to Map. 
 Act to prohibit the exportation of game and fish 
 
 out of the State of Arkansas 6 
 
 Act to prohibit the exportation of game and fish 
 
 out of the State of Missouri 6 
 
 Amanzonia, Mo 21 C-3 
 
 American Rules for Trap Shooting 49 
 
 Ardeolia, Mo 12 D-12 
 
 Batesville, Ark 9 D-14 
 
 Bean Lake, Mo 21 
 
 Bemis, Ark '^'^ G-15 
 
 Bismark, Mo ^ L-16 
 
 Chadwick, Mo 1^ 0-9 
 
 Clarendon, Ark 14 1-15 
 
 Corning, Ark « B-17 
 
 Cotton Belt Route, Hunting and Fishing along. . 12 
 
 Crockor. Mo. 16 K-11 
 
 Dexter, Ark 12 J-12 
 
 Frisco, Line Hunting and Fishing along 16 
 
 Game and Fish Laws 22 
 
 Gilmore. Ark H H-lo 
 
 Hannibal, St. Joseph Ry. (Burlington Route) 20 
 
 Hatchiecoon, Ark 18 E-18 
 
 Hopkins, Mo 21 A-4 
 
 Horse Shoe Lake, 111 20 
 
 Idalia, Mo 12 0-19 
 
 Illinois Hunting and Fishing Points. . : 19 
 
 Iron Mountain Route, Hunting and Fishing along 7 
 
 " " " Hunters' Rates 10 
 
 " " Passenger Agents of the.. 11 
 
 Jacksonville & South Eastern Ry 19 
 
 «< " " '• Passenger Agts.. 19 
 
 Jerome,Mo 16 K-12 
 
 Jonesboro, Ark 1^ ^-1 ' 
 
 Kansas City, Springfield & Memphis Line, Hunt- 
 ing and Fishing along the 17 
 
 Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs Ry (Bur- 
 lington Route) 21 
 
 Keeners,Mo \ 0-16 
 
 Knoble 8 B-17 
 
 La Forge, Mo 14 P'^l' 
 
 Lake Contrary, Mo *1 
 
Page. 
 
 Langdon, Mo 21 
 
 Long Lake, 111 20 
 
 Maiden, Mo 12 
 
 Mammoth Springs, Ark 17 
 
 Mansfield, Ark 16 
 
 Mill Creek, Ark 7 
 
 Neeleyville, Ark 7 
 
 Newport, Ark , 9 
 
 New Madrid, Mo 14 
 
 Oakdornick, Ark 18 
 
 Paragould, Ark 13 
 
 Paw Paw Junction, Mo 14 
 
 Poplar Bluff, Mo ,.',., 7 
 
 Quiver Lake, 111 20 
 
 Ristine, Mo 13 
 
 Rogersvilie 17 
 
 Salem, Mo 16 
 
 Seneca, Mo 16 
 
 Spring Lake, 111 19 
 
 St. Francis, Ark 13 
 
 Swan Lake, Mo 20 
 
 Swif ton. Ark 9 
 
 St. Louis, Arkansas & Texas Ry •. . . 15 
 
 " " Passenger Agts... 15 
 
 Thayer, Mo 17 P-13 
 
 Walnut Ridge, Mo 8 
 
 Weiner, Ark 13 E-16 
 
 Williamsville, Mo 7 0-14 
 
 Winslow, Mo 16 C-5 
 
 Index 
 o Map. 
 
 B-1 
 
 0-2 
 
 A-14 
 
 G-5 
 
 F-8 
 
 P-17 
 
 C-18 
 
 N-3 
 
 0-8 
 0-17 
 
 N-8 
 P-20 
 
 L-13 
 0-4 
 
 A-19 
 D-10 
 D-15 
 
MISSOURI AND ARKANSAS, 
 
 THE PARADISE OF THE 
 
 HUNTER ^ FISHERMAN 
 
 As the season approaches when the h)ver of the gun 
 and rod anxiously consults the calendar which will once 
 more legitimize this favorite sport, he asks himself with 
 perplexity: Where shall I go this year? Where can I 
 tind a place which will fit my time, my pocket and my 
 inclination ? 
 
 To enable either the deciple of Nimrod or Sir Isaac 
 VValton to choose a place where he can regale himself 
 with the pleasure of hunting and fishing to his heart's 
 delight, we have completed accurate information as to 
 the different resorts in Missouri and Arkansas, Avhere 
 good hotel and camiiing accommodations can be found 
 with the character of the game and fish incident to such 
 locality and means of reaching the same from St. Louis. 
 
 MISSOURI is still furnisiiing a very large propor- 
 tion of the game for the markets of all the larger cities 
 o-f the United States. From October 15th to February 
 *Jlst of every year, there is not an express car arriving 
 in St. Louis which does not bring large consignments ot 
 game. Deer are numerous in the thinly settled moun- 
 tainous districts, and also in the swampy districts of the 
 southeastern part of the State. These lands and the 
 Ozark mountains consititute the gi'eat deer park and 
 game preserve. Game in the Ozarks, of all kinds, is most 
 plentiful . It is joy to the Sportsman on arriving in this 
 country to see the skins of deer and wild cats, foxes and 
 minks, hanging on the posts in front of country stores, 
 
6 HUNTING AND FISHING. 
 
 while the skias of bears and wolves are not infrequent. 
 Small game is so plentiful that it is practically ignored by 
 the natives, 
 
 AN ACT TO PROHIBIT THE EXPORTATION OF GAME AND FISH 
 OUT OF THE STATE OF MISSOURI. 
 
 If any ag-ent or servant of any railroad company, express com- 
 pany, steamboat or other com non carrier, or private individual, 
 have or re eive for transportation or carriage, or for any other 
 purpose, any of the birds or game hereinbefore mentioned, during- 
 the seaso;i when the cat hiiig, killing- or injuring the same is pro- 
 hibited, every such person shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. 
 
 Revised Statutes op 1889. 
 
 ARKANSAS is heavily covered with woodlands, 
 where not only the larger game, such as bear, deer and 
 wild hog, but turkeys, ducks, grouse and quail are deni- 
 zens, and the streams abound with salmon, black bass and 
 croppie. 
 
 AN ACT TO PROHIBIT THE EXPORTATION OF GAME AND FISH 
 OUT OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS 
 
 Section 1. That all the game and flsh, except fish iu private 
 ponds found within the limits of this State, be, and the same is 
 hereby declared to be, the property of this State; and the hunting, 
 killing and catching of the same is declared to be a privilege. 
 
 Section tl. It shall be unlawful for any person to export any 
 ti>horgame from this State until April 13,1895; and any person 
 Violating t le provisions of this Act shall be guil y of a misde- 
 me nor and shall b; fined, upon convijtioi. in any sum notleis 
 than twenty-five dollars and no. more than fifty dollars 
 
 Section 3. It shall be unlawful for any Railroad Company, 
 Steamboat, Express Company or any other common carrier to take 
 for carriage any fish or gam ^ consigned to points beyond the limits 
 of this State. 
 
 Section 4. Any such common carrier may refuse to receive 
 any package which it may suppose contains fish or game desired 
 for export, and may cause said p ickages to be opened, or may sat- 
 i-fy themselves in any other way that said package does not con- 
 tain game or fish. 
 
 Section 5. Any common carrier violating the provisions of 
 this Act sh ill be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon con. 
 viction shall be fined in any sum not less than fit tv •>>. . m i , 
 two hundred dollars. 
 
HUNTING AND FISHK.G. 7 
 
 Section 6. Any violation of this Act shall be prosecuted in 
 the name of the State of Arkansas, and one-half of the fine shall 
 be paid into the '"ounty Treasury as other fines are requirhd to be 
 paid, a'd the other half shall g-o to the informer. 
 
 Section 7. Justices of the Peace shall have jurisdi tion of 
 prosecut ons under this Act. 
 
 Section 8. All laws and parts of laws in confli-t herewith are 
 hereby repealed and this Act shall be in force from and after its 
 
 ])assage. 
 
 Appioved, April 12, 1889. 
 
 AMENDMENT. 
 
 Provi "e 1 that it shall not be unl Avful under this Act to export 
 h aver opossums, hares or rabbits g-round hog-s or wood chucks, 
 rac oons squirrels, snipes or plover, provided the same shall i e 
 sh pped openly. 
 Approved, March 31, 1891. 
 
 HUNTING AND FISHING POINTS 
 
 • • • ON THE • • • 
 
 IRON MOUNTAIN ROUTE, 
 
 Mill Creek, Williamsvilie, Keeners and 
 Poplar Bluff are stations on the Iron Monutaiii Route 
 in Southeast Missouri, and are also located on the banks 
 of the Black River, which abounds in all kinds of game 
 fish, and is every year visited by hundreds of anglers from 
 a distance. West of these points, and a little more in 
 the interior of Ozark Mountains, is a rapid mountain 
 stream, the Current River. Here is fcnind some of 
 the finest trout fishing in all these regions. By a short 
 land tour this river may be reached from any of the 
 above points, or by rail from Williamsvilie. At Neeley- 
 ville, itself a very good hunting and fishing point, a branch 
 of the Iron Mountain extends to Doniphan. This point is 
 situated on the banks of the Current River. It is the cen- 
 tre of the great game region of Southeast Missouri, and, 
 in addition to the larger game a hunter is sure to bag tur- 
 keys, partridges, quail, squirrels, etc., which abound in 
 
g HUNTING AND FISHING. 
 
 great quantities. The Belmont branch of the Iron Moiiulaiii 
 Route extends from Bismarck, Mo., to Columbus, Kj., 
 passing through very desirable hunting ground, as does 
 also the Cairo Branch, extending from Cairo to Poplar 
 Bluff. If it is thought desirable to penetrate far from the 
 railroad, a good method is to hire a freigliter's wagon and 
 driver who can cook. Plain food is cheap here, and a sup- 
 ply should be taken to last as long as the hunter desires to 
 stay. From $3.00 to $3.75 per day will pay for the driver 
 and his rig. Country hotel rates are $1.00 per day, or from 
 $4.00 to $0.00 per week. 
 
 STATIONS IN ARKANSAS. 
 
 Corning is the first noted hunting and fishing point 
 in the State, and is known as the "Sportsmen's Retreat." 
 "Deer Range," near the town, abounds indciu* (as its name 
 implies), turkeys, ducks, squirrels and all the smaller 
 game. Corning Lake and the famous Bhick River are well 
 stocked with croppie, perch, bass and pickerel. Boats can 
 be obtained, and huts have been erected along the river, 
 which are rented at a small cost to hunting parties. 
 
 Knobel has good hotel accomnKxlations, game, deer, 
 turkey, ducks, squirrel, etc. Black bass, jack salmon, croj)- 
 pie, perch, etc., are caught in Mill Lake, Maiden Lake, 
 Allen Lake, Black and Cache Rivers. 
 
 Walnut Ridge is the next good point below Knobel. 
 Hotel accommodation, all kinds of game from deer down, 
 in the Black and Cache River bottoms, and on the borders 
 of the numerous lakes, in which are found, in large quan- 
 tities, bass, perch, croppie, trout, buffalo and cat fish. Fin- 
 est sporting grounds in the State. All the varieties of lisli 
 of Northern Arkansas are found in the Cache River and 
 numerous lakes in the vicinity. 
 
 St. Francis River.— This River, flowing through 
 Eastern Arkansas and emptying into the Mississippi above 
 He^«na, is the most famous duck-hunting resort in the 
 
HUNTING AND FISHING. 
 
 United States, i'locks of ducks, brant, geese, swan and 
 smaller water fowl swarm the river and its backwa- 
 ters, from Big Lake to its mouth, throughout the winter 
 season. This river is accessible from Wynne, Earle and 
 other points on the Memphis Extension, and from Forrest 
 City and Marianna on the Helena Branch. 
 
 Swifton, farther south, has a large tract of thinly 
 settled country, both to the east and west, that abounds 
 in bear, deer, wolves, wild cats and all small game. Cat 
 and buffalo fish, trout, basSj croppie, white and sun 
 perch, are found in large quantities in Black, White, 
 Cache and Strawberry Rivers, Holli ngshead and Clear 
 Lakes. 
 
 Newport is a large town, with good hotels and ex- 
 cellent hunting in the vicinity. All kinds of game, such 
 as bear, deer, quail, teal, wood duck and mallards are 
 very plentiful in season. Fish, such as black bass, crop- 
 pie, jack salmon, channel cat, etc., are found in great 
 quantities. 
 
 Batesville is west of Newport, on the White River 
 Branch. It is a large town in a new and mountainous 
 country, abounding in all kinds of game and fish. White 
 River, Polk Bayo, Spring and Miller's Creeks and Spring 
 Creek Lake, team with cat fish, goggle-eyed perch, trout, 
 pike, striped bass, black bass, croppie, salmon, white perch, 
 sturgeon, buffalo and drum fish. Hunting unsurpassed. 
 Good hotels. 
 
 A letter from Samuel Cronin, Traveling Freight and 
 Passenger Agent of the H. C. A. & N. Railway, Alexan- 
 der Division, w^hich is a branch of the Iron Mountain 
 System, and which was opened for business January 1st, 
 says that this country is surely a sportsman's paradise. 
 Deer are plenty and fish in abundance. Trout (they look 
 like our bass) and perch can be easily caught in any of 
 the little and apparently insignificant streams between the 
 Ouachita and Red Rivers. The country is very sparsely 
 settled and hunters should carry their supplies along, such 
 
10 HUNTING AND FISHING. 
 
 as camp equipage, etc. The country is one vast forest of 
 pine, oak and cypress, principally pine, between the above 
 mentioned rivers. 
 
 Hanteps' l^ates and Special Cars. 
 
 Special rates found below have been made via the 
 Iron Mountain Route to hunting parties of three or more. 
 Tickets are good for thirty days, but not later than March 
 1st, in Missouri, and May 1st, in Arkansas, with stop 
 overs at pleasure, and 150 pounds of baggage, including 
 guns and dogs, will be carried free of charge. Hunting 
 cars, having sleeping accommodations for about thirty, 
 with cook, cooking utensils, dishes and full equipment, 
 may be chartered by parties, and will be side-tracked at 
 any point desired. 
 
 For further information, call on or address any of 
 the Company's agents 
 
 FROM ST. LOUIS. 
 
 Augusta $13 90 
 
 Beebe _ 12 50 
 
 Charleston _ 7 10 
 
 Corning: 7 70 
 
 Crawfordsville 12 40 
 
 Gainesville 8 45 
 
 Harrisburg „ 10 35 
 
 Hoxie 9 05 
 
 Knobel 7 90 
 
 reeleyville 7 35 
 
 Nettleton _ 9 50 
 
 Newport 10 50 
 
 Para«ould 8 80 
 
 Poplar Bluflf.. 6(5 
 
 i-'wifton 9 75 
 
 Wynne 11 20 
 
 FROM CAIRO. 
 
 FROM MEMRHI8. 
 
 $8 40 
 
 $4 10 
 
 920 
 
 555 
 
 1 00 
 
 
 440 
 
 5 26 
 
 8 35 
 
 160 
 
 4 65 
 
 440 
 
 6 15 
 
 3 40 
 
 5 75 
 
 
 466 
 
 500 
 
 3 95 
 
 5 70 
 
 5 90 
 
 3 40 
 
 7 20 
 
 
 4 6-> 
 
 4 15 
 
 3 3'. 
 
 6 30 
 
 6 45 
 
 
 7 10 
 
 2 80 
 
HUNTING AND FISHING. ]\ 
 
 VALUABLE ASSISTANCE. 
 
 Thefol'owi- g Traveling and Passenger Agents of the MISSOUBI 
 PACIJICEAILWAY and IRON MCUITTAINEOUTE are constantly looking after 
 the interests of the Line, and will call upon parties comtemplating 
 a trip, and cheerfully furnisb them lowest rnte^ of Fare, Maps, 
 Guides. Land Pamphlets, Time Tables, etc. Or they may be ad- 
 dressed as follows. 
 
 ATCHISON, KAN. 
 
 C. E. STYLES Passenger and Ticket Agent 
 
 AUSTIN, TEX. 
 
 J. C. LEWI- Traveling Passenger Agent 
 
 BOSTON, MASS. 
 
 G. K. DELAHANTY. New Enjrland Pass'r Agt., 300 Washington St 
 CAIRO, ILL. 
 
 J. W. MiiSON Passenger Agent 
 
 CHATTANOOGA, TENN. 
 
 A A. GALLAGHE < Southern Passenger Agent. 1.3 Head House 
 CHICAGO, ILL. 
 
 JOHN E. ENNIS Dis rict Pass'r and Land Agt., 199 S. Clark St 
 
 CINCINNATI, OHIO. 
 
 N. K. WARWICK District Passenger Agent, 131 Vine St 
 
 DENVER, COL. 
 
 ('. A. rtaPP General Western Freight and Passenger Agent 
 
 INDIANAPOLIS, IND. 
 
 COKE ALEXANDEti District Pass'r Agent, 7 Jackson Place 
 
 JACKSON, MICH. 
 
 H. D. AKMSTHONG Traveling Passenger Agent 
 
 KANSAS CITY, MO. 
 
 E. S. JEWETJ" Passenger and Ticket Agent 533 Main St 
 
 J. H. LYON Western Passenger Agent, 533 Main St 
 
 LEAVENWORTH, KAN. 
 
 J. N. JOERGEi{ Passenger and Ticket Agent 
 
 LINCOLN, NEB. 
 
 R. F. K, MILLAR General Agent 
 
 LITTLE ROCK, ARK. 
 
 H.F. BERKLEY Passenger and Ticket Agent 
 
 LOUISVILLE, KY. 
 
 L. E. DKAKK southern Traveling Agent, 319>4 4th St 
 
 MEMPHIS, TENN. 
 
 H. D. WILSON Passenger and Ticket Agent, 309 Main St 
 
 NEW YORK CITY. 
 
 W. E HOYl' General Eastern Passenger Agent, 391 Broadway 
 
 J. P. McCANN Eastern Traveling Agent, 391 Broadway 
 
 OMAHA, NEB. 
 
 J. O. PHILLIPPl Ass't Ge eral Freight and Passenger Agent 
 
 THO . F. GODFREY, Pass'r & Ikt A-t., N. eJ.cor. 13th &Farham Sts 
 PITTSBURGH, PA. 
 
 . H. THOMPSON Central Passenger Agent 1119 Liberty St 
 
 ST. JOSEPH, MO. 
 
 F. P. WAOE Passenger and Ticket Agent 
 
 ST. LOUIS, MO. 
 
 B. D. CALDWELL A'^s't General Passenger and Ticket Agent 
 
 S. W. ELLIOTT City Ticket Agent, 103 N. Fourth St 
 
 M. GRIFFIN City Passenger Agent, 102 N. Fourth St 
 
 W. H. MORION Passei ger Agent, Union Depot 
 
 WICHITA, KAN. 
 E. E. BLECKLEY Passenger and Tick t Agent. 120 N. Main St 
 
 S. H. H. CLARK, H. C. TOWNSEND, 
 
 1ST VICE-PRES-T & GEN-L MGR. GEWL PAS«"R & TRT. AOT. 
 
 ST. LOUIS, MO. 
 
Hunting and fishing 
 
 ON THE 
 
 COTTON BELT ROUTE. 
 
 The Cotton Belt Route opens up this country, and 
 makes what was formerly an impossible journey to the 
 average man, a trifling matter of ten or twelve hours in a 
 luxurious Pullman! 
 
 Leaving St. Louis 7:55 a. m., the first hunting points 
 of any importance are Ardeola and Idalia, 166 and 177 
 miles from St. Louis, respectively. Here, within a few 
 miles of the stations, deer and turkey are plentiful— not 
 to mention the smaller game, which, in this region, is 
 almost left to the small boy with his irrepressible muzzle- 
 loader. 
 
 Guides and teams, at a cost of from $2.00 to $3.00 per 
 day for man and team, can be secured on application to 
 the railroad agent. 
 
 Dexter, the next point, 185 miles from St. Louis, is 
 situated in the midst of a beautiful track of prairie land, 
 dotted here and there with islands of trees of from one to 
 fifteen acres in extent. Here is the paradise of the quail 
 and chicken hunter. Two miles in any direction from the 
 station will start covey after covey, while at a distance of 
 ten miles deer can be secured. 
 
 No guides are necessary, and teams and dogs can be 
 procured in the town, which also provides good hotel ac- 
 commodation at $1.50 per day. 
 
 Maiden, Mo., 202 miles from St. Louis, and 58 miles 
 from Cairo, is the next point, thirty miles south from 
 which, in the vicinity of Big Lake, the ideal of the sports- 
 man is found. No clearing attests the domicile of man; 
 the settler's axe is as yet unheard. The silence of the 
 night is broken only by the solemn hooting of the owl or 
 the blood-curdling screech of the panther. Bears hide in 
 the thicket, and the graceful deer leap the fallen trees in 
 
HUNTING AND FISHING. |3 
 
 the wikl abaiidoti of thoir freedom. Wildcat, foxes, mink 
 and wild hog are found, and turkey and smaller game are 
 plentiful, while the lake and bayou swarm with flocks of 
 duck, swan, geese, brant and other water-fowl. 
 
 Guides and teams can be secured at Maiden, and hotel 
 accommodations can be had at that point for $1.00perday 
 and ui)wards. * 
 
 At St. Francis, 213 miles from St. Louis and 70 miles 
 from Cairo, the St. Francis river is crossed. This river 
 abounds in black bass, jack salmon, croppie, perch, etc., 
 and furnishes good duck shooting, while at a distance of 
 10 or 12 miles deer, turkey, etc., can be found. Guides 
 and teams can be secured on application to the railroad 
 agent. 
 
 At Paragould, Ark., 248 miles from St. Louis and 103 
 miles from Cairo, a branch railroad runs out to St. Francis 
 Lake, 10 miles distant. This lake furnishes excellent 
 fishing, and duck, geese and brant cover its surface, while 
 on Buffalo Island, across the lake, all kinds of game, in- 
 cluding bear, deer and turkey, can be found. JS'o guides 
 or teams are necessary, as the Buffalo Island Railroad 
 runs directly to the shores of the lake. 
 
 Between Paragould and Jonesboro, the land is cov- 
 ered with timber, and at various distances of from one to 
 ten miles on both sides of the railroad are bayous, furnish- 
 ing excellent duck shooting, while in the intervening 
 woods deer and turkey are found. * 
 
 To go south of Jonesboro, it will be necessary to take 
 the Cotton Belt night express, leaving St. Louis 8:20 p.m., 
 and the principal points are Weiner. Fisher and Bemis. 
 The surrounding country partakes of the same general 
 characteristics as that described between Paragould and 
 Jonesboro. The only abodes of man l)eing an occasional 
 saw-mill in the vicinity of the railroad. 
 
 At a distance of one mile from Bemis is Crooked Ba- 
 you. Fishing is excellent; duck, geese and water fowl in 
 great numbers, and bear, deer, turkey and small game 
 plentiful. 
 
;[4 HUNTING AND FISHING. 
 
 Teams and guides can be hired on application to the 
 railroad agents. 
 
 At Clarendon, 330 miles from St. Louis and 215 miles 
 from Cairo, is the White River, in which fish of various 
 kinds, principally trout, bass and croppie, can be found. 
 Duck, geese and other water fowl are plentiful, while the 
 banks and bottom tands both east and west of the railroad 
 furnish bear, deer and smaller game. 
 
 South of Clarendon commences the Grand Prairie of 
 Arkansas, which can be reached from Roe, Ulm or Stutt- 
 gart. This prairie, 20 miles in width and 80 miles in 
 length, dotted with islands of timber, provides the finest 
 chicken and quail shooting in the West, while the bayous 
 and bottom lands of the White and Arkansas Rivers, 
 which bound the prairie on the north and south, are full 
 of deer and turkey. Teams, etc., can be hired at Ulm or 
 Stuttgart. 
 
 Between Cairo and Maiden are what is known as the 
 sunk lands, vast marshy tracks, with ridges of dry lands, 
 swarming with duck, geese, swan, brant and all varieties 
 of water fowl. These lands can be reached from LaForge, 
 Ristine, Paw Paw Junction or New Madrid. Good hotel 
 accommodation can be had at New Madrid, also guides 
 and boats. 
 
 The various sections of the country south of Maiden 
 partaking of the same general characteristics, it is hard to 
 particularize any special spot as either the best or the 
 most desirable, and as the localities which at one time 
 during the season may abound in game, at other times 
 may not be so well stocked, the best plan to pursue would 
 be to purchase tickets to the farthest point which time 
 and means will justify, and stop oft' at the intermediate 
 points en route until a satisfactory location is found. 
 This can easily be done, as Cotton Belt Hunters' tick- 
 ets provide for stop-oft" at pleasure both going and re- 
 turning. 
 
 Below find conditions under which Hunters' tickets 
 are sold ; also round-trip rates from St. Louis and Cairo. 
 
HUNTING AND FISHING. 15 
 
 Hunters' tickets will be sold to parties of three or 
 more on one ticket, commencing Octobor 1st, limited to 
 thirty days from the date of sale, but in no case later than 
 March 1st to points in Missouri, or May 1st to points in 
 Arkansas. Stop-over will be permitted to all points with- 
 in the limit of the ticket, and guns, dogs and camping 
 outtits to the amount of 200 pounds will be carried free for 
 each passenger. 
 
 HUNTERS' RATES 
 
 To Points on St. Louis, Arkansas & Texas Railway. 
 
 FROM 
 
 FROM 
 
 CAIRO. 
 
 ST. LOUIS OR 
 
 
 E. ST. LOUIS. 
 
 $1 70 
 
 * 8 70 
 
 2 Oj 
 
 8 7-) 
 
 
 6 70 
 
 
 6 9J 
 
 
 7 JO 
 
 
 7 40 
 
 3 85 
 
 8 10 
 
 3 3) 
 
 8 65 
 
 4 65 
 
 8 75 
 
 5 5U 
 
 9 50 
 
 tt 05 
 
 10 15 
 
 6 ;J5 
 
 10 45 
 
 67i 
 
 10 85 
 
 73j 
 
 11 3J 
 
 8 UO 
 
 12 05 
 
 H 4> 
 
 12 55 
 
 9 10 
 
 13 20 
 
 9 35 
 
 13 45 
 
 9 35 
 
 13 95 
 
 TO 
 
 La Forge 
 
 Paw Paw Jc. 
 
 Ardeola 
 
 Day 
 
 Idalia 
 
 Dex.er 
 
 Maiden 
 
 St. Frincis 
 Para-ould . 
 Joae^boro. 
 
 Obe r 
 
 Weiuer 
 
 Fi!<her 
 
 Tiltoa 
 
 Hunter 
 
 Brinkl y 
 
 Clarendon . 
 
 Koe 
 
 Stuttg-art .. 
 
 Ark 
 
 If hunting parties will notify any of the following, an 
 Agent of the Company will meet them at St. Louis or 
 Cairo, and render all assistance possible in the way of 
 help and information. 
 
 J. E. DAVENPORT, S. G. HATCH, 
 
 CITY PASSENGER AND TICKET AGENT, TRAVELING PASSENaCR AGENT. 
 
 No. 215 North Fourth Street, St. Louis, Mo. 
 
 J. H. JONES, 
 
 ticket agent. 
 
 M. ADAMI, 
 
 TRAVELING ><ASSENGER AGENT, 
 
 CAIRO, ILLINOIS. 
 
 D. MILLER. 
 
 GENERAL TRAFFIC MANAGER, 
 
 E. W. LaBEAUME, 
 
 GENERAL PASSENGER AGENT 
 
 W. B. DODDRIDGE, General Managkr. 
 ST LOUIS, MO. 
 
HUNTING AND FISHING 
 
 ON THE 
 
 FRISCO LINE. 
 
 It is a well kuown fact to sportsmen that there is no 
 section of the westovn country th;it itilords better hunting 
 and fishing than Southwestern Missouri, Arkansas, Indian 
 Territory and Southern Kansas, tra,versed Ly the Frisco 
 liiiio. Tlio Meranicc Kiver, crossed several times by this 
 liitjc, ailVn'ds eyocllont fisliing. The Gasconade and Little 
 Pincy Rivers, crossed at Jerome, Mo., by this Line, are 
 noted for their garae fisli. TJie James River, near Spring- 
 held, Mo., is another hnc stream for fishing; the Spring 
 River, near Verona, Mo.; the Grand River, near Seneca, 
 Mo.; the Virdigris River, near Virdjgris, T. T.; the Whil^e 
 River, near Eureka Springs, Ark.; the Kiamichi River, 
 near Kosoma, I. T., all abound with game fish. 
 
 The hunting is good in all the counties of Southwest 
 Missouri and Northwestern Arkansas. Large and small 
 game of all kinds are plentiful, and no mistake can be 
 made by going to the Ozark, Boston and Kiamichi Moun- 
 tains, on the Frisco Line, for excellent sport. 
 
 Enquire of game dealers in St. Louis, and you will 
 learn that the most game and greatest variety come from 
 the Frisco Line. 
 
 This Line sells round-trip excursion tickets to parties 
 of three or more on one solid ticket from October 1st to 
 March 31st. Tickets are limited thirty days from date of 
 sale. From St. Louis to, viz.: 
 
 Salem, Mo $ 5 00 I Seneca, Mo $13 00 
 
 Jerome, Mo 5 00 | Winslow, Ark 15 00 
 
 Crocker, Mo 5 90 St. Paul. Ark 15 50 
 
 Chad wick, Mo 11 00 | Mansiield, Ark 17 90 
 
 For further particulars address nearest Station Agent 
 of the Frisco Line, or D. Wishart, General Passenger 
 Agent, St. Louis, Mo. 
 
HUNTING AND FISHING GROUNDS 
 
 ALONG THE 
 
 Kansas City, Springfield & JVIemphis Line 
 
 IN SOUTHWESTERN MISSOURI AND ARKANSAS. 
 
 The statistics have been carefully gathered by repre- 
 sentative sportsmen who reside in that region, and much 
 valuable information about the prospects for game, the 
 kind of game that most abounds, the topography of the 
 country, and the accommodations and facilities oilered to 
 sportsmen. The reports generally show an abundance of 
 game, including bear, deer, turkeys, ducks and quail, and 
 also plenty of excellent lisliing. 
 
 The best turkey and quail shooting is reported from 
 Rogersville to Gilmore, a distance of 140 miles, turkey 
 being so plentiful that the trainmen have no difS.culty in 
 bagging all they need for their own use from the track, 
 where they come in flocks during the dry weather to 
 scratch in the gravel along the line of the road. Deer are 
 to be found in large quantities between Norwood and 
 Hatchiecoon, but west of that range are scarcer. 
 
 Thayer, Oregon County, Missouri, is one of the first 
 points on the line where game is reported to be plentiful. 
 The hunting grounds in that vicinity extend over an area 
 of about forty-miles square, and are known to sportsmen 
 as the celebrated Irish Wilderness and Indian Camp. 
 Deer, turke3% qnail and duck are thick, and the season will 
 not close until the latter part of February. Dogs and 
 guides can be secured at reasonable rates by visiting 
 sportsmen, and the hotel accommodations are good and 
 charges low. There being no objection on the part of 
 property owners to hunting on their grounds, this point 
 is one of the best on the line for sport. 
 
 At Mammoth Springs in Arkansas, the game is plen- 
 tiful over a large territory; deer, turkey, quail and squirrel 
 
18 HUNTING AND FISHING. 
 
 being the principal species, and quail and turkey being 
 most numerous. The season extends over a period of 
 three months, from November to February; guides can 
 be secured at 50 cents per day, board at $1.00 and livery 
 $3.00 per day. There are few dogs in the vicinity, how- 
 ever, and sportsmen who shoot over dogs exclusively 
 will find it necessary to take their own. There are no 
 objections made to hunters. 
 
 The hunting grounds in the neighborhood of Big 
 Bay, in Craighead County, cover a radius of about twenty 
 miles. There are some deer and an abundance of bear. 
 Turkey aud duck are plentiful, and the season runs from 
 September to May, while deer are shot as late as Febru- 
 ary, squirrel are also thick in that region, and hunters are 
 not molested in that territory. Heavy breech-loading 
 guns and Winchesters are suggested as the weapons to be 
 used, and gum boots and rubber coats are necessary to a 
 complete outfit. 
 
 Oakdornick is the name of the hunting grounds that 
 are located at about a mile and a half from Hatchiecoon, 
 and is the headquarters of the southern sportsmen, the 
 Chickasaw Gunning and Trolling Club and the Osceola 
 Ducking Club of Memphis, both having club-houses and 
 leased grounds in that vicinity. The duck, turkey and 
 squirrel shooting is excellent during the entire season, 
 which runs from October 15 to February 1, and there is a 
 large lake near the Hatchiecoon, where the duck are very 
 plentiful; it also affords rare sport for the angler. All 
 that is necessary for the visiting sportsman is to get a per- 
 mit from the secretary of either club, aud the privilege is 
 freely accorded. 
 
 At Big Creek, a mile or so out of Gilmore, there are 
 plenty of bear, deer, turkey, duck and squirrel, and the 
 fishing is the best in the Southwest. There being no 
 hotels of any consequence in the neighborhood and the 
 country unbroken and very sparsely settled, sportsmen 
 visiting there will find a camp outfit necessary. The sea- 
 son lasts from October 15 to February 1, and the best time 
 
HUNTING AND FISHING. 19 
 
 to visit that point is during November and December. 
 Last year ducks Avere killed by the thousands, and they 
 are just as plentiful now. Turkeys are also abundant 
 and quite a number of bear and deer have been shipped 
 out of Gilmore. 
 
 The hunting grounds are easily reached from Kansas 
 City, the Fort Scott & Gulf and Springfield & Memphis 
 line running directly through them. Sportsmen can leave 
 this city at 6:30 in the evening and arrive at Thayer for 
 breakfast the following morning, and if they desire to go 
 further south, they reach Hatchiecoon by noon. 
 
 Special round-trip rates for hunting parties can be had 
 on application to any ticket agent of the Fort Scott and 
 Gulf line, or to the General Passenger Agent. Tents and 
 Camp Equipage, if in convenient shape for handling and 
 not of unreasonable weight, and carried free in baggage 
 car. For further information address, 
 
 J. E. LOCKWOOD, 
 
 General Passenger Agent, 
 Kansas City. 
 
 Illinois Hunting and pishing. 
 
 Among the important Hunting and Fishing resorts 
 Spring Lake, situated near Manito, on the Jackson- 
 ville & Southeastern Railway, cannot be surpassed for its 
 elegant fishing — bass, pickerel, croppie and other game fish 
 are bountiful and aftord delighful sport. 
 
 Small game can be found in season, thereby afl:'ording 
 good hunting. This lake is about 18 miles in length and 
 from 100 yards to f-mile in width, and is within a short 
 distance of Copperas Creek dam, located at government 
 lock, 'a beautiful resort." Upwards of fifty people can 
 be comfortably accommodated at Spring Lake, and a large 
 club house and hotel will be erected in a short time by 
 
20 HUNTING AND FISHING. 
 
 the Pekia and Spring Lake Hunting and Fishing Club, 
 which has recently been organized. Capital stock, $50,000. 
 
 Quiver Lake is another resort on Illinois River, 
 located near Havana, also affords splendid hunting and 
 tishing. Ample accommodation for all. 
 
 Long Lake and Horse-Shoe Lake, well- 
 known resorts, are located on J. S. E. Line. These 
 kikes are only about twelve miles from St. Louis. 
 Fishing is very good, boats, etc., can be obtained at the 
 lakes. 
 
 In addition to above mentioned resorts, there are 
 several others located on J. S. E. Line that furnish great 
 sport. 
 
 Sport seekers rates the year around to all these places. 
 
 Address. 
 
 H. A. SUTTLE, 
 
 General Passenger Agent, 
 
 513 Chestnut St., St. Louis. 
 
 HUNTING AND FISHING POINTS 
 
 ON THE 
 
 Hannital S. St. Joseph Railway. 
 
 BURLINGTON ROUTE. 
 
 Swan Lake, three antl one-half miles south of 
 Wheeling, INIo. Several good lakes on the " bottom" 
 lands below "Swan Lake," equally as good as Swan 
 Lake. Good hotel accommodations are afforded at Wheel- 
 ing for those desiring to visit this locality. 
 
 There are two lakes, one 2^ miles, and the 
 other three miles southwest of Utica, Mo. Good 
 
HUNTING AND FISHING. 2 1 
 
 hotel accommodations. A number of timber lakes on the 
 prairie near the same locality are equally good. 
 
 The bottom lands one and one-half miles east of Utica, 
 Mo., offers good inducements for duck hunting, as also 
 other game. Good rabbit and quail hunting may be found 
 in the vicinity of Holt, Kearney and Robertson, Mo. 
 
 A large lake with a variety of fish, three miles south 
 of Liberty, with first-class facilities for fishing. Good 
 hotel accommodations at Liberty. 
 
 Lake Contrary, one mile south of St. Joseph, af- 
 fords good fishing. A good hotel being situated at the 
 hike, boat houses, etc. 
 
 POINTS ON THE 
 
 K. C, ST. J. & C. B.R. R, 
 
 BURLINGTON ROUTE, 
 
 Bean Lake, a point forty miles north of Kansas 
 City, Mo., fine hunting and nsliing. New hotel erected 
 for accommodation for the benefit of people who go there 
 to hunt and fish. 
 
 From Amazonia to Hopkins on the Hopkins Branch, 
 and to Corning on the Main Line, good hunting and hotel 
 accommodations at the dift'erent stations. 
 
 Langdon, the hunting and fishing is fine. This place 
 has become quite a resort for the people in the county. 
 Good accommodations can be had at all times. 
 
33 GAME LAWS. 
 
 THE OPEN SEASONS. 
 
 The appended synopsis of the game and fish laws of all the 
 States and Territories of the United States, and of the British 
 Provinces . 
 
 CAUTION. 
 
 The Game Laws printed herein are corrected up to August ist, 1891. 
 Owing to frequent changes made at the session of each legislature, we 
 would advise sportsmen and hunters to make inquiry from the State or 
 Territorial officials to learn i^ any changes have been made. 
 
 ALABAMA.— In the counties of Monroe, Olarke, Wilcox, Talladega, 
 Bibb, Autauga, Clay, deer, October 20 to February 14; wild turkeys, Octo- 
 ber 20 to May 1; turtle doves, August 1 to April 1, and Montgomery County, 
 July ID to April 1; quails or partridges, September 15 to March 15; ducks, 
 October 1 to May 1. • In Perry County: doves, July 1 to March 15; quails, 
 October 15 to March 15; deer, October 15 to February 15; ducks, October 
 1 to April 1 ; .turkeys, October 20 to May 1, Mobile and Baldwin counties: 
 deer, November 1 to February 1 ; turkeys and quails, No.vember 1 to 
 April 1; turtle doves, September 1 to April 1; ducks, November 1 to May 
 1. Barbour County: deer, October 20 to May 1; quails, September 1 to 
 May 1; turtle doves, August 1 to May 1. Butler and Elmore counties: 
 deer, October 20 to February 15; turkeys, October 20 to May 1; quails, 
 September 15 to March 15; turtle doves, August 1 to April 1. Calhoun 
 and Tuscaloosa counties: deer, turkeys and quails, November 1 to March 
 1; turtle doves, July 15 to March 1. Chilton and Sum^er counties: dee r 
 September 15 to February 15; turkeys, September 15 to May 1; turtle 
 doves, August 1 to March 15; quails, October 1 to April 1. Colbert, Cov 
 ington, Jeflferson, Lauderdale, Marengo, Pike and St. Clair counties: 
 deer, September 1 to April 1; turkeys and quails, October 1 to April 1; 
 quails protected in Covington County. Coosa County: deer, October 1 to 
 April 1; turkeys, October 1 to May 1. Cullman, Limestone and Madison 
 counties: deer, July 4to February 1; turkeys and quails, September 1 to 
 March 1. Dallas County: deer, October 20 to Febiuary 4: turkeys, Octo- 
 ber 20 to April 1; turtle doves, July 10 to April 1; quails, October 10 to 
 March 15. Greene County: deer, November 1 to Janiiary 10; turkeys, 
 November 1 to April 15; quails, November 1 to March 1; turtle dove^ 
 November 1 to February 1. Hale County: deer, October 1 to February 1; 
 turkeys, October 15 to May 1; quails, March 16 to November 1; turtle 
 doves, July 15 to March 15. Lawrence County: quails, October 15 to 
 March 25. Lowndes County: deer, October 20 to February 14; turkeys, 
 October 20 to April 1; turtle doves, July 4 to April 1; quails, October 10 to 
 March 16. Macon County: deer, October 1 to February 1; turkeys, Obto 
 
GAME LAWS. 23, 
 
 ber 1 to May 1; turtle doves, July 15 to April 1; quails, October 1 to March 
 1. Montgomery County: deer, October 23 to February 14; turkeys, Octo- 
 ber 20 to May 1; turtle doves, July 10 to April 1; quails, October 15 to 
 March 15; ducks, October 1 to May 1, Perry County: deer, October 15 to 
 February 15; protected east of the Cahaba Kiver. Turkeys, October 20 to 
 May 1; turtle doves July 1 to March 15; quails, October 15 to March 15; 
 ducks, October 1 to April 1. Pickens County: deer, September 15 to 
 February 1; turkeys, September 15 to April 15; turtle doves, August 1 
 to April 1; quails, October 15 to March 15; ducks, October 1 to April 1. 
 Camp hunting, use of nets, traps and devices- other than a shoulder gun, 
 night hunting, floats, sneak boats, box or battery shoooting, prohibited 
 in nearly every county. State law forbids Sunday shooting. Birds' 
 nests and eggs protected, except tiose of biris of prey. Dams, traps, 
 weirs, or other obstructions to the free passage of fish up streams, and 
 poisons, drugs and explosives prohibited 
 
 ALASKA.— The erection of dam ', barricades, or other obstructions, in 
 any river, which would prevent fish from reaching their spawning 
 grounds, prohibited. 
 
 ARIZONA.— Elks, deer, antelopes, mountain sheep, mountain goats, 
 October. 1 to February 1. Partridges, wild turkeys, geese, brants, swans, 
 curlews, plovers, snipes, quails and ducks, September 1 to March 1. 
 Prairie chickens or pinnated grouse protected to 1892 The capture of 
 flsh by means of nets or explosives prohibited. 
 
 ARKANSAS.— Deer, August 1 to February 1. Turkeys, September 1 
 to May 1, Prairie chickens, September 1 to February 1. Quails, October 
 1 to March 1. Netting or snaring of quails, prairie chickens and turkeys 
 prohibited, except on a person's own premises during open season and 
 at any time to protect fruit. Yell County, partridges and quails, Sep- 
 tember 15 to March 15. Wild turkeys, August 15 to April 15. Nests of 
 all birds protected except those of crows, blackbirds, hawks, owls, eagles 
 and birds of prey. Possession and transportation prohibited during the 
 close season. Exportation of game and fish prohibited until April 12, 
 1895, except beavers, opossums, hares or rabbits, ground hogs, wood- 
 chucks raccoons, squirrels, snipes and plovers, provided the same shall 
 be shipped openly. All fish, except in private ponds, declared to be the 
 property of the State, and catchintr same a privilege. Netting, seining^ 
 trapping, dragging or maintaining any obstructions in the waters of the 
 State prohibited; provided, small seines may be used for catching min- 
 nows for bait; and for supplying necessary food, but not for sale, nets 
 having meshes not less than three inches in size may be used in navi- 
 gable waters. 
 
24 GAME LAWS. 
 
 CALIFORNIA.— Deer, aatelopes, elks and mountain aheep protected 
 until 1893. Quails, partridges, grouse of any kind, ducks and rails, Octo- 
 ber 1 to March 1. Doves, July 1 to January 1, Wild turkeys. Bob White 
 quails, pheasants and skylarks protecte<il until January 1, 1895. Blue and 
 white cranes protected. Netting and snaring of game and insectivorous 
 birds prohibited ; egge and nests protected. Trout, April 1 to November 
 1 ; taking of trout, except with hook and line, prohibited. Salmon, Octo- 
 ber 1 to August 31. Fishing between 6 p. m. Saturday and sundown of 
 succeeding Sunday, prohibited. The pollu';ion of waters with lime, saw- 
 duet, drugs or any substance deleterious to fish, and the use of explosives 
 or any poisonous substance, or nets, weirs, traps or similar devices, pro- 
 hibited. Marketing of shad weighing loss than eight pounds prohibited. 
 Permiasion of owner of premises required in most counties to hunt 
 or flsh. 
 
 COLORADO. — Deer, elks and antelopes which have horns, July 1 to 
 December 1. Not more than five deer, five antelopes and two elks al- 
 lowed to be killed in any one year by one person, and hides of same may 
 be shipped out of the State by obtaining a tag for each from the 
 county clerk. The killing for food is limited to the immediate and nec- 
 essary use of the person killing the animal, game bird or fish. Killing 
 for market or sale prohibited. Hounding prohibited. Exportation of 
 game and fish prohibited. Mountain sheep protected until March 26, 
 1897. BufEalos and mountain goats protected until March 26, 1899. 
 Prairie chickens, grouse, quails and pheasants, September 1 to Novem- 
 ber 15. Ducks, brants, geese and swans, September 1 to April 1. Wild 
 turkeys, larks, whip-poor-wills and all other song and insectivorous 
 birds protected. Owner's consent necessary to hunt in any inclosure. 
 Night hunting, netting and trapping prohibited. Trout or any food 
 fish for immediate use. May 1 to December 1. Fishing with hook and line 
 only permitted. The use of explosives, drugs, nets, seines, weirs and the 
 pollution of streams with sawdust or other deleterious substances, pro- 
 hibited. The Slate is divided into four game districts, with paid game 
 and fish wardens. 
 
 CONNECTICUT.— Quails, woodcocks, ruffed grouse (called partridges), 
 and gray squirrels, October 1 to January 1. Exportation of quails, wood- 
 cocks and grouse prohibited. Eggs and nests are protected. Wild ducks, 
 geese and brants, September 1 to May 1. Nests and eggs of above pro- 
 tected equally. Trapping, snaring or netting of woodcocks, quails and 
 ruffed grouse forbidden, except on a man's own grounds. Possession by 
 any person, or any express company, or carrier, during the close season 
 is forbidden. Exportation of game prohibited. Shooting or being with 
 gxm and dog without leave on the inclosed grounds of any individual or 
 corporation where notices forbidding hunting are posted is a breach of 
 lavr even in the open season. Shooting, hunting, or havli<g firearms in 
 
GAME LAWS. 25 
 
 possession'on Sunday in the open air is illegal. Song and insectivorous 
 birds and their nests protected. Restrictions placed upon certain parts 
 of Housatonic River and flats, hunting being prohibited except on Tues- 
 days and Fridays between October 20 and April 20. Rails may be shot 
 in New Haven, Fairfield and Litchfield counties from August 20 to Janu- 
 .ary 1 ; other portions of the State from September 1 to January 1. Rab- 
 bits not protected. The use of ferrets for hunting rabbits prohibited. 
 Trout, April 1 Ho July 1. Unlawful to sell trout less than six inches long. 
 Fishit^ in any other way than with hook and line, and within four hun- 
 dred yards of any flshway, prohibited. Black bass, June 11 to May 1. 
 Striped bass or salmon shall not be caught in seines or nets from June 20 
 to July 13, and striped bass must not weigh less than one-half pound. 
 Shad, March 1 to June 20. Numerous local laws govern fishing ponds 
 and streams.. Netting ponds and lakes forbidden. A game and a fish 
 warden in each county is appointed by the county commiaeioners. 
 
 DELAWARE.— Partridges, grouse, quails, rabbits and hares: in New 
 Castle County, November 1.5 to January 1; in Kent and Sussex counties, 
 November 15 to February 1. Reedbirds, ortolans and rails, September 
 1 to February 1. Geese, swans, brants and ducks, except Summer 
 mer or woodducks, October 1 to April 15. Woodcocks, July 1 to Septem- 
 ber 15 and in New Castle County, November 15 to January 1, and in Kent 
 and Sussex counties, November 15 to February 1. Non-residents must 
 procure a license (fee $25) from the Delaware Game Protective Associa- 
 tion . Netting or snaring and night-hunting of partridges, grouse, wood- 
 cocks and quails, and trespass, and hunting game birds in snow prohib- 
 ited. Hunting wildfowl with punt or swivel guns or with light prohibited. 
 Insectivorous birds and their nests (except on one's own premises) pro- 
 tected. Muskrats, December 1 to March 30. Sunday hunting illegal. 
 Shipment of game, except ducks and geese, out of a county ot State with- 
 out license is illegal, unless the shipper make oath that the game was 
 legally killed and is not intended for sale or profit. Residents may ship 
 one dozen or less birds out of the State without a license. Black bass 
 and trout, in New Castle County, June 1 to November 1; less than six 
 inches in length protected. 
 
 DISTRICT OF COLUM^A.— Partridges or quails, November 1 lo 
 February 1. Pheasants or ruffed grouse, August 1 to February 1. Wood- 
 cocks, July 1 to February 1. Prairie chickens, September 1 to February 
 1. Snipes and plovers, September 1 to May 1. Geese and ducks, Sep- 
 tember 1 to April 1. Reed birds and ortSlans, September 1 to February 
 1, Deer, August 15 to January 1. Insectivorous birds protected, also 
 nests and eggs. Trap or snare and swivel gun, Sunday shooting, night 
 shooting, and trespass, prohibited. Fishing with hook and line, at any 
 time. 
 
26 GAME LAWS. 
 
 FLORIDA.— Deer may be killed, in each county, for four months of 
 the year, said four months to be designated by the respective county 
 
 .>mmig8ioner8, whose duty it is to publish same in some local newspa- 
 or post it. Quails, partridges and turkeys, November 1 to March 1 
 Fire hunting, snaring and trapping prohibited 
 
 GEOKQIA.— Richmond County, deer, October 1 to January 1. Fawns 
 protected. Wild turkeys and partridges (quails), October 15 to April 1. 
 Summer ducks and doves, July 1 to April 1. Woodcocks, August 15 to 
 January 1. Trappmg and netting, poisoning, and destruction of nests of 
 any game or insectivorous birds, prohibited. Dougherty, Randolph, 
 Calhoun and Baker counties, deer and partridges (quails), October 1 to 
 April 1. Lincoln and Baldwin counties, does and fawns, August 1 to Jan. 
 uary 1; bucks, May 1 to September 1, and November 1 to March I. Wild 
 turkeys and partridges (quails), October 15 to March 15. Clarke, Fulton, 
 Camden, Bartow, Floyd, Chatham and Whitfield counties, doer, par- 
 tridges (quails), wild turkeys, doves and wild ducks, October 1 to April 
 1, except Fulton County, where doves may be killed from August 1 to 
 April 1, Many other county laws Fire-hunting deer within the State 
 prohibited, except on one's own premises, or with full consent of the 
 owner of the lands hunted on. Sunday shooting prohibited. Fishing 
 with hook and line permitted; traps, nets, weirs, etc., drugs, explosives, 
 obatrucUons, etc., prohibited. 
 
 kIDAHO.— BufFalos, elks, deer, antelopes and mountain sheep, Septem 
 ber 1 to January 1. Moose protected until 1897. Sage hens, pheasants, 
 grouse and prairie chickens, July 15 to February 1. Geese and ducks, 
 August 1 to April 15. Netting of fish prohibited except in taking salmon 
 and sturgeon. No close season on fish. 
 
 ILLINOIS.— Deer and turkeys, September 1 to January 15. Piunated 
 grouse or prairie chickens, September 15 to November 1. Ruffed 
 grouse or quails, October 1 to December 1. Partridges or pheasants 
 and quails, October 1 to December 1. Woodcocks, July 15 to Septem- 
 ber 15. Geese, brant ducks, or other waterfowl, September 15 to April 
 15. Gray, red, fox or black squirrels, June 1 to December 15. Possession 
 and sale of game prohibited in close season, except game brought in from 
 other States, which may be sold from October 1 to February 1. The 
 sale or exportation of quails, grouse, squirrels and turkeys killed within 
 the State, prohibited. Doves and insectivorous birds and their nests pro- 
 tected. Bounty of two cents per head paid on English sparrows. 
 Trapping, night hunting, swivel guns, shooting from sink boat, 
 sailboat or steamboat, and artificial blinds prohibited. Hunting or 
 fishing within the enclosures of others without leave is a punishable 
 misdemeanor. Obstructions in or across any stream eo' as to ob- 
 struct the free passage of fish up, down or through such watercourse 
 
GAME LAWS. 27 
 
 prohibited ; the law prohibits the taking of fish with any device other 
 than hook and line, except minnows for bait, within one-half mile 
 of any dam ; prohibits the use of spears, acids medical and chemical 
 compounds or explosives ; prohibits Ashing through the ice from 
 December 1 to March 1. Three game wardens, to be appointed by 
 ftie Governor. 
 
 INDIANA.— Deer, October 1 to January 1; chasing or worrying at any 
 timt and trapping -prohibited. Quails and pheasants (ruflfed grouse), 
 October 15 to December 20. Wild turkeys, November 1 to February 1. 
 Pralrift chickens, September 1 to February 1. Woodcocks, July 1 to 
 January 1. Wil I diacks, September 1 to April 15. Squirrels, June 1 to 
 December 20. Wild pigeons protected from any kind of molestation 
 within ah&lf mile of nesting. Insectivorous and song birds, their nests 
 and eggs, except English sparrows, crows, hawks and other birds of prey, 
 protected. Hunting with dogs or shooting on inclosed lands without 
 written permission, forbidden. Any dog found roaming over the coun- 
 try unattended by owner or agent shall be deemed a run-about dog and 
 may be legally killed. Sale, possession and transportation in close sea- 
 son prohibited; and tha transportation beyond the State at any time is 
 forbidden. Gigging and spearing fish allowed only from July 1 to Jan- 
 uary 1. Artificially stocked waters protected for three years after planting 
 fish. Nets, seines, shooting, explosives and poisons prohibited. Hook 
 and lino fishing all )wed at any time. Road supervisors are constituted 
 officers of the law and are compelled by its provisions to enforce the 
 same. 
 
 INDIAN TERRITORY.— The Government prohibits every person, 
 other than an Indian, from hunting or fishing. 
 
 IOWA.— Prairie chickens, September 1 to December 1. Woodcock? 
 July 10 to January 1. Ruffed grouse or pheasants, quails and wild tur- 
 keys, October 1 to January 1. Deer and elks, September 1 to January 1. 
 Any wild duck, goose or brant, August 15 to May 1. Not more than 
 twenty-five each of grouse, woo^dcocks or quails' to be billed in any one 
 day by any one person. Beavers, minks, otters and muskrats, November 
 1 to April 1 (for the protection of private property at any time). 
 Trapping, snaring and netting of above birds forbidden. The killing of 
 pinnated grouse, woodcocks, quails or ruffed grouse, for traffic, declared 
 unlawful ; and shipping or carrying them out of the State is forbidden. 
 Not to exceed one dozen per day may be shipped to any person within 
 the State. Use of swivel gun or poison prohibited. Bass, wall-eyed pike 
 and croppies. May 15 to November 1. Salmon and trout, • Aprl 
 1 to November 1. Traps, nets, seines, trot lines, spears an 
 
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 obBtruotloas of any kind, explosives and poisonous drugs, 
 prohibited. Transportation or sale during close season 
 prohibited. Trespass and fishing in stocked waters forbidden. 
 Hook and line fishing only permitted, except that a net not exceeding 
 five yards in length may be used to catch minnows, and buffalo fish an* 
 suckers only may be speared between November 1 and March 1. 
 
 KANSAS. — Prairie chickens or pinnated grouse, September 1 to Jmu- 
 ary 1. Quails, November 1 to January 1. Snaring and trapping pro- 
 hibited. Pursuing or hunting game of any kind on improved or occupied 
 land, without consent of owner, prohibited. Unlawful to catci black 
 bass, croppies, or wall-eyed pike except with rod, line and hojk. All 
 other fish. May 1 to July 1. 
 
 KENTUCKY.- -Deer, males not • protected-, females September 1 to 
 March 1. Wildfowl, September 15 to May 1. Wild turkeys, September 1 
 to February 1 Woodcocks, June 1 to January 1. Quails and ruffed 
 grouse, October 1 to March 1 . Doves, August 1 to February 1. Song and 
 insectivorous birds, and nests of all birds, protected. Trapping, snaring 
 and netting forbidden. 
 
 LOUISIANA.— Deer and ducks, October 1 to March 1, Turkeys, Octo- 
 ber 1 to April 15. Quails, partridges and pheasants, October 1 to April 1. 
 Insectivorous birds protected . Nests and eggs protected . In the parish 
 of Orleans, woodducks, July 1 to October 1. Deer, August 1 to March 1. 
 Rabbits and hares, May 1 to August 1. Quails, October 1 to April 1. Night 
 herons, July 1 to October 1. Marsh hens, May 1 to August 1. Song birds 
 protected, except grasses, larks, caille doves martins, papabottes and 
 swallows. This is the general State law The police juries of the differ- 
 ent parishes have the right to regulate the season in regard to deer, 
 ducks, turkeys, quails, partridges and pheasants, and in many parishes 
 they have done so. Where the police juries do not regulate the time for 
 their respective parishes, the general State law governs. Nets, seines, 
 traps, weirs, etc., poisons, drugs, pollution of streams, or any obstruc- 
 tion to the free passage of fish, prohibited. 
 
 MAINE.— Moose, deer and caribou, October 1 to January 1. Deer, on 
 the Island of Mt. Desert, November 1 to January 1. The killing or hav- 
 ing in possession, except alive, of more than one inoo?e, two caribous 
 and three deer is prohibited. Hounding illegal. Any person may law- 
 fully kill any dog found hunting moose, deer or caribou. Minks, bea- 
 vers, sables, otters, fishers and muskrats, October 15 to May 1. Wood- 
 ducks, dusky ducks (black ducks), teals and gray ducks, September 1 to 
 April 1. Ruffed grouse (partridge). and woodcocks, September 1 to De- 
 cember 1. Quails, Oct<iber 1 to December 1. Pinnated grouse (prairie 
 chickens), September 1 to January 1. Plovers, August 1 to May 1. Trap- 
 ping, netting, snaring and killing any wild duck or game bird otherwise 
 than with a shoulder gun prohibited. Insectivorous tirds and tlieir 
 
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 uestts protected, excepting crows, English sparrows, hawks and owls. The 
 Governor may commission persons to take birds or nests for scientific pur- 
 poses, hut tiie whole number holding commissions shall- not exceed ten 
 ataiy one time. A bounty of five dollars-paid for every wolf and bear 
 MUed in any town. Transportation and exportation of game pro- 
 hbited, unless tagged and open to view. Shooting and hunting 
 on Sunday prohibited. Black bass, July 1 to April 1; illegal to 
 take at any time from their spawning beds. No salmon, shad 
 ^or ot»er migratory fish shall be taken or fished for within five hun- 
 dred yirds of any fishway, dam or millrace, nor in the tenobscot River 
 between the mouth, of the Kenduskaag Stream and the waterworks dam 
 at Treat's Falls, on said river; nor between the Augusta highway bridge 
 over the Kennebec River and the Augusta dam, between April 1 and 
 November 1, except with a single hook and line, nor shall hook and line 
 or artificial files be used at any time within one hundred yards of any 
 fishway, dam or millrace; provided that fly fishing shall be allowed up to 
 the bridge across Denny's River at Lincoln's Mill, but not between the 
 said bridge and Lincoln's milldam. No salmon shall be killed or taken 
 in any manner betwaen July 15 and April 1, except that between July 15 
 and September 15 salmon may be taken with a rod and single line. Ale- 
 wives, April 1 to July 15; not allowed to be taken at any time in non-tidal 
 or non-navigable waters by any net other than the ordinary hand dip- 
 net. Smelts, in tidal waters, with hook and line only, Octbber 1 to April 
 1. Land-locked sUmon, trout and togue, May 1 to October 1, except on 
 the St. Croix River and its tributaries, and all the waters in Kennebec 
 County, which is from May 1 to September 15. White perch, Julj^ 1 to 
 April 1. Daring February, March and April bona fide citizens of Maine 
 may fish for and take to their own homes land-locked salmon, trout and 
 togue. Grapnels, spears, trawls, weirs, nets, scenes, traps, spoons, set—' 
 lines, or any device other than the single baited hook and line, or with 
 artificial flies, prohibited in all fresh water lakes, ponds and streams 
 The taking of sea salmon or land-locked salmon less than nine inches in 
 length, or trout less than five inches in length, prohibited. Not more 
 than fifty pounds, at any one time, of land-locked salmon, trout or tosue, 
 in all, allowed to be transported by one person, and must be in pos- 
 session of the owner. Dip-nets, with meshes smaller than one inch square 
 in the clear, in any waters^ frequented by migratory fishes except the St. 
 Croix River, October 1 to April 1. The pollution of streams by offal of 
 any kind prohibited. " Special laws govern the sea and shell fish indus- 
 tries Special laws: Trout, land-locked salmon or other fish in the 
 
 Misery and Saccatien or Socatian rivers which empty into Moosehead 
 
 Lake, may be taken only from May 1 to September 10 Trout and 
 
 land-locke 1 salmon in the Kennebagi, Rangeley, Cupsuptic, Mooselucma- 
 guntic, MoUychunkamunk and WelokeunebacooK Lakes, or in streams 
 flowing into or connecting said lakes, may be talien nly from May 1 to 
 February 1. The use of spawn as bait for fishing in any of the foregoing 
 
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 waters (luring September prohibited Trout or nd-locked salmon 
 
 in the Rangeley Stream between the mouth of the Kennebago Streao 
 and the head of the island at the eddy, so called; and in the South B(g 
 Stream which empties into Rangeley Lake, abave the dead water at t-ie 
 mouth of said stream; and iu the Bemis Stream which empties jato 
 Mooselucmaguntic LakH, above the blue water, at the mouth of said 
 stream; and in the Cupsuptic Stream which empties into CupsupticLake, 
 between the first falls toward its mouth and its source. May 1 to .uly 1. 
 Kennebago Stream between the foot of the first falls toward its mouth 
 and the upper falls at the outlet of Kennebago Lake, May 1 to September 
 1. That portion of Rangeley Stream from the head of the island at the 
 eddy to the Rangeley Dam is protected at all times. Fish may be taken 
 only from May 1 to October 1 in the following ponds: Blue Mountain, 
 Tufts, Grindstone, Dutton, Beaver, Long Potter's and Four Ponds. Togue 
 protected in Anonymous Pond until 1895. Trout protected in Chase's 
 Pond until 1894. Trout and pickerel protected in Great, Shorey's, .Sta- 
 ples' and Parker's brooks until 1893. Kneeland Pond fish protected until 
 1893. Pickerel may be taken with hook and line in Little Sebago Pond 
 June 1 to October 1. Fish protected in Long and Weeks' Ponds and 
 Woodsuffl's Brook until 1894:. Nevers', Carsley, Rogers', Tingley and 
 Lakia brooks protected until 1895. Per^as' and Nute brooks protected 
 until 1893. 
 
 MARYLAND. — Woodcocks, State law, June 15 to February 1, County 
 laws: Anne Arundel, Caroline, Kent, Prince Georges, Queen Anne, July 
 4 to February 1 ; Carroll, Montgomery, July 1 to January 1 ; Charles, 
 Cecil, July 4 to February 4 ; Harford, June 10 to January 1 ; Talbot, 
 July 4 to January 1 ; Wicomico, June 15 to February 1 ; Howard, June 15 
 to December 24. Rabbits, State law, October 15 to January 15. County 
 laws: Allegheny, September 1 to January 1 ; Frederick, October 15 to 
 January 1 ; Montgomery, September 1 to February 1 ; Cecil, Harford, 
 November 1 to January 10 ; Worcester, November 1 to January 15 ; Bal- 
 timore, November 1 to December 26 ; Dorchester, October 20 to February 
 1 : Howard, October 24 to December 24 ; Carroll, October 1 to December 
 24 ; Garrett, September 1 to December 1 ; Washington:, August 12 to Jan- 
 uary 1. Wild turkeys, county laws: Frederick, November 15 to Jan- 
 uary 15 ; Garrett; September 15 to January 1. Quails or partridges. State 
 law, November 1 to December 24. County laws: Allegheny, Frederick, 
 Talbot, October 15 to January 1 ; Queen Anne, October 15 tcV* January 1 ; 
 Baltimore, October 1 to December 26 ; Caroline, Worcester, Somerset, 
 November 1 to February 1 ; Howard, October 24 to December 24 ; Cecil, 
 Harford, November 1 to January 10 ; Carroll, October 20 to December 
 24 ; Montgomery, November r to December 15; Dorchester, October 20 
 to February 1 ; Washington, October 20 to January' 1 ; Wicomico, Novem- 
 ber 1 to January 1. Pheasants, Cecil, September 5 to February 1 ; Har- 
 ford, September 1 to February 1 ; Howard, August 15 to December 24. 
 
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 Rail and reed birds: Cecil, September 5 to February 1 ; Harford, Sep- 
 tember 1 to February 1 ; Talbot, September 10 to January 1 Squirrels, 
 <9unty laws: Carroll, September Ito December 24 ; Wicomico, Septem- 
 by- 1 to February 15. Plovers and sandpipers, county laws: Wicomico, 
 N(Vemlrer 1 to January 1. Wood and Summer ducks, county laws: Tal- 
 bot 'jnd Wicomico, September 10 to January 1. Minks, otters and musk- 
 rats, Wicomico County, December 15 to March 15. Deer, October 1 to 
 Januajy 1. Hounding prohibited. Speckled brook trout and speckled 
 river trout, April 1 to August 15. Hook and line fishing only allowed. 
 Sunday ^shing for trout prohibited. Use of swivel or big guns, and 
 night shooting, prohibited. License necessary in Caroline, Charles, Dor- 
 chester, Howard, Anne Arundel and Baltimore counties. In all above 
 counties except Caroline written permission from landowi^er is required 
 in lieu of license and in Garrett County is absolutely necessary. Ex- 
 portation of game is forbidden from Montgomery, Worcester, Wicomico 
 and Caroline counties. Many insectivorous birds are protected in Mont- 
 gomery County. 
 
 MASSACHUSETTS.-Deer protected. Gray squirrels, hares and rab- 
 bits, September 1 to March 1. Ruffed grouse or partridges and woodcocks, 
 September 15 to January 1. Quails, October 15 to January 1. Prairie 
 chickens or pinnated gropae protected. Ducks, all kinds, September 1 
 to April 15. Plovers, snipes, rails, sandpipers and other shore, marsh 
 'and beach birds, July 15 to May I. Wild and passenger pigeons, gulls 
 and terns. October 1 to May 1. Shooting at wildfowl and shore birds 
 prohibited in the harbor and great ponds of Nantucket and the waters in 
 and around the islands of Tuckernuck, Muskeget and the Gravelly Isl- 
 ands. All wild, and insectivorous birds not named above, except English 
 sparrows, crow blackbirds, crows, jays, birds of prey and wild geese, pro- 
 tected. Snaring, trapping, use of ferrets, battery, swivel or pivot guns, 
 and torch or other artificial light prohibited. Black bass, July 1 to 
 December 1. Trout, lake trout and land-locked salmon, April 1 to Sep- 
 tember 1 ; trout, in Berkshire, Hampshire and Franklin counties, April 1 
 to August 1. Hampden, April 1 to September 1. Salmon, May 1 to 
 August 1. Smelts, June 1 to March 15. Black bass arejiot to be taken from 
 Lake Cochituate, in the towns of Natick, Wayland and Framingham, 
 Middlesex County. Trout and pickerel may be taken by line and hook 
 only. Nets or seines with meshes less than five inches prohibited on the 
 Connecticut River and its tributaries. Trespass, Sunday shooting and 
 fishing, the pollution of streams, use of nets, seines, and exportation of 
 game birds or animals, prohibited . 
 
 MICHIGAN.— Deer in Upper Peninsula, September 25 to October 25; 
 Lower Peninsula, November 5 to November 25. Killing deer or fawns 
 in red or spotted coat, and in the water, or by means of pitfall or trap or 
 artificial light, forbidden. Hounding prohibited, and dogs found on a 
 
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 deer track may be killed. Deer and elks protected on Bois Blanc Island 
 until November 1, 1899. Wild turkeys, November 1 to December V. 
 Woodcocks, August 15 to December 15. (This is the new law, but it dc«s 
 not take effect untlll October 1, 1891, therefore the old law is in fcce 
 until then, which makes the open season on woodcocks commence Sep- 
 tember 1. The same is true regarding grouse, which, under the olc'law, 
 may be legally killed from September 1 to October 1 and ander 
 the new law as stated herewith.) Lower Peninsula: Ruffed grouse 
 (partridge), pheasants, quails (Colins or Virginia partridge), Ncemberl 
 to December 15. Upper Peninsula: Ruffed grouse (partridge). October, 
 1 to January 1 . Snipes and wild geese, red-heads, bluebills, canvas-backs 
 widgeons and pintail ducks September 1 to May 1. A.11 othfr wildfowl, 
 September 1 to January 1. Prairie chickens protected to Not ember, 1894. 
 No trapping or snaring allowed. No punt or swivel £;uus nl.'owed. Nests 
 and eggs of birds protected. Possession, sale or transportation during 
 close season prohibited.. Insectivorous and songbirds protected. Expor- 
 tation of game prohibited. Bounty of three cen^s per head paid on spar- 
 rows. Usingguns within five miles of pigeon nestings and netting within 
 two miles is prohibited. Speckled trout, grayling, California trout, and 
 landlocked salmon, with hook and line only. May 1 to September 1; less 
 than six inches in length protected; also protected in streams wh^re they 
 are not native for three years after first planting; brook trout and gray- 
 lings shall not betaken for sale or sold. Black, strawberry, green or white 
 bass at any time, but by hook and line oniy:mascalonge, July 1 to March, 
 1. The use of dynamite, herculean or giant powder or. other explosives, 
 seines, pound nets, gill nets, or any species of nets, jacks or artificial 
 lights of any kind prohibited. There are local laws in several counties 
 The Governor shall appoint a game and fish warden, to serve four years, 
 and he in turn shall appoint deputy wardens— not to exceed three In each 
 county, 
 
 I MINNESOTA —Deer and elks. November I to December I. Moose, 
 caribou and reindeer protected until April 20, 1896. Hounding pro- 
 hibited. Woodcocks, July 4 to November 1. Prairie chickens, sharp- 
 tailed ^ouse, ruffed grouse or pheasants, quails or partridges, Septem. 
 ber 1 to November 1. Geese, ducks, brants, snipe and all aquatic fowl, 
 Augtiet 20 to April 25. Minks, muskrats, otters and beavers, November 1 
 to May 1. All plumage, song and Insectivorous birds, their nests and 
 eggs, and the nests and eggs of game birds protected, excepting black- 
 birds and sparrows. Trapping, netting, snaring, night hunting and the 
 use of artificial lights, or other devices, prohibited, except that decoys 
 may be used to lure ducks, wild geese and brants. Trespass prohibited ; 
 lands must be posted. Speckled, river or brook trout, April 1 to October 
 I. Other flsh. May 1 to March 1, except where prohibited by local laws. 
 Hook and line fishing only permitted. Nets, weirs, seines, explosives, 
 drugs, the pollution of streams, and fish houses ouioe,- prohibited. Fiah- 
 ing within f onr hundred feet of any fishway prohibited- 
 
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 ^'^aOHSiSSIPPI — I>eer. September 1 to March 1.- Wild turkeys, ruffed 
 glpuse and quails, October 1 to May 1. Turtle doves and starllnga, Sep- 
 tember T. to March 1. Catbirds, mocking-birds and thrushes protected 
 at a\I times. In Tunica County, the killing or taking of any kind of game 
 bird ^T animal, fowl or fish for profit, sale or transportation is prohibited 
 until 1897. A land-owner may kill or fish on his own land, or give per- 
 mission to others, but for immediate use only. Numerous county laws. 
 In Tate County, open season for all kinds of game, November 1 to March 
 1. Panola County, quails, October 15 to April 15. The law grants the 
 board of supervisors of any county, the right to change the State law, at 
 any time. Seines> nets, traps, explosives, drugs, etc., prohibited. 
 
 MISSOURI.— Deer, October 1 to January 1 ; turkeys, September 15 
 to March i, Prairie chickens (pinnated grouse), August 15 to February 
 L Ruffed grouse (comihonly called pheasants) and quails (Virginia 
 partridges), October 1 to January 1. Woodcocks, July 1 to January 10. 
 Waterfowl not protected. Doves, meadow larks and plovers, 
 August 1 to February 1. All insectivorous birds, their nests 
 and eggs, and those of game birds, protected. Possession of 
 game out of season Illegal. Birds not showing shot marks to be 
 considered as illegally killed. All railway companies, express 
 companies and carriers are forbidden to carry game out of season. Non- 
 residents forbidden to trap or kill any deer, turkeys, prairie chickens, 
 quails, ruffed grouse, wild geese, brants, wild ducks, snipes, woodcocks, 
 and any furred animal. Shooting on inclosed lands without per- 
 mission, illegal. Any person may catch or kill on his own premises, for 
 his own or for his own fanjily's consumption, quails or prairie chickens, 
 irom October 15 to February 1. Fishing with hook and line at any 
 time. DrugB,'poisonB, explosives, permanent obstruction?, nets, weirs, 
 seines, traps, etc., prohibited, except that a net may be used to catch 
 minnows, and residents may take fish with a seine or set net having 
 meshes not smaller than two Inches square from May 1 to .\pril 1. 
 
 . MONTANA.— Deer, antelopes, mountain sheep, mountain goats, elks 
 and moose, September 15 to January 15. Buffalos and quails protected 
 until 1901. Hunting for skins only, for market or for sale, and hounding 
 prohibited. No close season for bears, curlews and snipes. Otters, 
 martens and fishers, October 1 to April 1. Grouse of all kinds, sage- 
 hens, fool hens, pheasants and partridges, August 15 to November 15. 
 Ducks and geese, August 15 to May 1. Song and insectivorous birds 
 protected; their nests and eggs, and those of all game birds, protected. 
 Hook and line and spear fishing allowed at any time, but catching speck- 
 led or mountain trout for profit prohibited; the use of explosives, poison- 
 ous drugs and nets, traps, etc., prohibited. 
 
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 NEBKASKA.— Buffalos, elks, mountain sheep, deer and antelopef, 
 October 1 to January 1. Grouse, September 1 to January 1. Quails and 
 turkeys, October 1 to January 1. Snaring and trapping forbidden. Mirks 
 and muskrats, February 15 to April 15. Ducks,' geese and woodcocks not 
 protected. Nests and eggs protected. Sneak boats and punt and swivel 
 guns prohibited. Insectivorous and song birds protected. Hounding 
 of deer prohibited in Burt, Washington, Douglas, Sarpy, Cass, Seunders 
 and Dodge counties. Transportation of grouse, quails, turkeys, buffa- 
 los, elks, mountain sheep, deer and antelopes prohibited at all times of 
 tbe year. Fish can be taken with hook and line only. Fish planted by 
 the Fish Commission or private persons protected at all times. Taking 
 fish by any other means than with hook and line prohibited. 
 
 NEVADA.— Deer, elks, antelopes, mountain sheep and goats, August 1 
 to December 1. Partridges, pheasants, woodcocks, geese, woodducks, 
 teals, mallards and Other ducks, sandhill cranes, brants, swans, plovers, cur- 
 lew3,snipes, grouse, sharp-tailed grouse, robins, meadow-larks, September 
 1 to March 15. Sag3 chickens, August 1 to January 1. Quails, September 1 
 to January 1. Beavers and otters protected until April, 1897. Insect iv- 
 orous birds and nests of all birds, protected. Unlawful to construct 
 dams or any river obstruction without proper fishways. Brook trout dnd 
 landlocked salmon, April 1 to October 1. Lake trout, Aprill to January 1. 
 Fishing with hook and line only permitted. Pollution of streams, use of 
 poisons, drugs, explosives, seines, traps, weirs, etc., prohibited. Tres- 
 passing prohibited. No close season for other fish. 
 
 NEW HAMPSHIRE.— DeGff, moose or caribou, September 1 to Janu- 
 ary 1. Hunting with do^s prohibited between September 15 and Novem- 
 ber 1. Not more than one moose, two caribou anl three deer permitted 
 to be killed by one person during the open season. Deer protected in 
 Cheshire County until August U, 1899. Minks, beavers, sables, ottera or 
 fishers, October 15 to April 1. Raccoons or gray squirrels, September 1 
 to January 1. Hares, rabbits or muskrats, September 1 to April 1. 
 Plovers, yellowlegs, sandpipers, ducks or rails, August 1 to February 1. 
 Ruffed grouse, woodcocks and quails, September 1 to January 1. Insectiv- 
 orous and song birds protected. Nests protected. Snaring or trapping 
 ruffed grouse or quails prohibited. Transportation, possession or sale In 
 close season prohibited. Land-locked or fresh water salmon, April 15 
 to September 30. Brook and speckled trout, April 15 to September 15. 
 Pike-perch and white perch, July 1 to May 1. Black bass, June 15 to 
 May 1. Mascalonge, pickerel, pike and grayling, June 1 lo April 1; pick- 
 erel in Lake Warren, May 1 to November 1. Lobsters, September 16 to 
 August 25. Brook trout less than five inches in length protected. In 
 Sunapee Lake, brook, speckled. Loch Levin or rainbow trout of less than 
 ten inches in length, and black bass less than eight inches iu length pro- 
 tected. Not more than ten pounds of brook or speckled trout allowed 
 
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 va possession at one time. Striped bass, land-lock»d aalm6j[i» aureolas 
 or |i;olden trout less than ten inches in length protected. Lami>er eels, 
 August 1 to May 1, under certain restrictions. Fishing in certain sec- 
 tions of Cockermouth River and Fowler's River prohibited until August 
 14,- 1893. The use of nets, drugs, explosives and sp.'aring, and the polla- 
 tion of streams prohibited. The Governor appoints a fish and game 
 comml»eion, not exceeding three In number, aid game wardens are 
 appoint«d for each town. Sundaj: shooting and trespass prohibited. 
 
 NEW JERSEY.— RufiEed grouse, October 1 to Deceinbar 16, Quails, No- 
 vember 1 to December 16. Woodcocks, October 1 to December 16, and 
 during the month of July. Plovers, August 1 to December 16. Snipes, 
 October 1 to December 16, and during the months of March and 
 April. Prairie chickens, November 1 to January 1. Reed birds, rail 
 birds and marsh hens, August 25 to December 16. Woodducks, Sep- 
 tember 1 to January 1. Gray anl black squirrels, September 15 to De- 
 cember 16. Fox squirrels, September 1 to January.l. Rabbits, Novem- 
 ber 1 to December 16. Song and ineectivorous birds, and nests and eggs 
 of ail birds protected. Trapping and snaring prohibited. Salmon trout, 
 March 1 to October 1. Brook trout, April 1 to July 15. Black and Os- 
 wego, bass, May 30 to -December 1. Pickerel and pike. May 1 to March 
 1. Bet lines, nets, seines, or any device obstructing the free passage of 
 fish prohibited. Non-residents must comply with the by-laws of the 
 game protective .societies of the State or be debarred from shooting 
 under penalty, 
 
 NEW MEXICO,— Elks, buffalos, d^er, fawns, antelopes, mountain 
 sheep, wild turkeys, grouse and quails, September 1 to May 1 'Not appli- 
 cable to travelers or persons in camp, whose necessities may compel 
 them to kill for purposes of subsistence. Trout or other fool fishes for 
 subsistence only and with hook and line only, June 1 to November 1. 
 The use of poisons, drugs, explosives, nets or similar devices, artifldial 
 obetructions and pollution of streams, forbidden- 
 
 NEW YORK.— Deer, August 15 to November 1 ; hounding permitted, 
 from September 1 to October 20, except in Queens and 'Suffolk counties 
 where it is lawful only the first ten days of October, exclusive of Sun- 
 days; in St. Lawrence and Delaware counties hounding is prohibited at 
 all times ; moose and fawns protected. But three deer can be taken in 
 one season, and one only may be transported when accompanied by the 
 owQer. Crusting and yarding of deer prohibited. Ducks, geese and 
 brants, September 1 to May 1 ; in the waters of Long Island, October 1 
 to May 1 ; in Chautauqua County, September 1 to February 1. Night 
 hunting.and use of artificial light, punt or Bwivel gun and nets prohibited. 
 Use of floating batteries, etc., prohibited ; and bough houses and decoy s 
 must be within twenty rods from the shore, except in Great South Bay 
 west of Smith's Point, Peconic Bay, Shennecock Bay, Lake Gptario, 
 
36 GAME LAWS. 
 
 Blver St, Lawreuce and the Hudson River below Albany. Shooting froaa ' 
 sail or steam boats prohibited, except on Long Island Sound, Gardner's 
 and Peconic Bays, Lake Ontario and Hudson River below lona Islend. 
 Quails, November 1 to January 1. On Robins Island, October 15 (o Feb- 
 ruary 1. Rabbits and hares, November 1 to Febraary 1. . Hunting with 
 ferrets prohibited. Woodcocks, ruffed grouse and prairie chickens, \ 
 September 1 to January 1. Snipes, sandpipers and plovers, July 10 to i 
 January 1 in counties of Queens and Suffolk. Rail birds and meadow 
 hens, in counties of Queens and Suffolk, September 1 to January 1. 
 Netting and snaring prohibited. Squirrels, Augusti to February 1 ; in 
 Cortland County, September 1 to January 1. Song und insectivorous 
 birds protected. Nests protected. Robins and blackblrdamay be shot on 
 Long Island and Staten Island from November 1 to January 1. English 
 sparrows, crows, blackbirds, hawks and owls not proteck>'l. Speckled, 
 brook, California and brown trout, April 1 to September 1. ; in Forest 
 Preserve, May 1 to September 15 ; Steuben County, May 1 to August 1. 
 If less than six inches in length must be returned to waters whert) caught. 
 Lake trout, salmon trout and land-locied salmon sume as speckled trout, 
 except In Forest Preserve, May 1 to October 1; and iu inlaad waters, 
 April 1 to October I ; Lake George, May 1 to October 1. Sa'mon, March 
 1 to August 15, with hook anl line, angling by hand only. Black bass. 
 May 30 to January 1, except in Oneida Lake, June I to March l; and 
 L^ke Mahopac, Schroon Lake and River, Paradox Lake, Friends^ Lake, 
 Skaneateles Lake, Lake Erie and Niagara River above the falls, July 1 to 
 January 1 ; Lake George and Brant Lake, August 1 to January 1 ; St. 
 Lawrence, Clyde, Seneca and Oswego rivers, lakes Ontario, Conesus and 
 Black, May 20 to January 1 ; Lake Champlain, June 15 to January 1 ; Glen 
 Lake, July 10 to January 1. All black bass weighing less than one-half 
 pound or less than eight inches in length protected ; this restriction ap- 
 plies also to Oswego bass caught in Glen Lake and fresh water striped 
 bass. Mascalonge and pike-perch. May 30 to January 1 ; St. Lawrence, 
 Clyde, Seneca and Oswego rivers, lakes Ontario, Conesus and Black, May 
 20 to January 1 ; Oneida Lake^ May 30 to March 1 ; Lake Champlain, June 
 15 to January 1; Erie County, July 1 to January 1, Oswego iass, same 
 as mascalonge, except iu Glen Lake, July 10 to January 1. Fresh water 
 striped bass, M^y 20 to January 1; Erie County, July 1 to January!. 
 Salt water striped bass, no close season ; protected in Jamaica Bay 
 under six inches in length ; in other waters size same as black bass. Sea 
 bass and tautogs under six inches in length protected in Jamaica Bay. 
 Pike, Lake Champlain, June 15 to January 1. Pickerel, Lake George 
 and Glen Lake, July 1 to February 15 ; Lake Champlain, June 15 to Jan- 
 uary 1. Shad, Hudson River, March 15 to June 15 ; none allowed to be 
 taken above the northern line of Westchester County from sunset on 
 Saturday to sunrise on the following Monday. Bullheads,_Lake George 
 and Glen Lake, July 1 to April 1. The Forset Preserve includes portions 
 of the counties of.Clinton, Delaware, Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Hamli- 
 
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 Von, Herkimer, Lewis, Oneida, St. Lawrence, Saratoga, Warren, Wasliipg- 
 ton, Greene, Ulster and Sullivan. The State is divided into fifteen game 
 and fish protection districts. Protectors appointed for each district. 
 
 NORTH CAROLINA.— A new law has been passed, regulating the open 
 season in the several counties of the State. We have not received a 
 copy of it up to the time of going to press, ^but will publish a, synopsis 
 of it in a subsequent iaaue. , - ~ 
 
 NORTH DAKOTA.— BufEalos, elks, deer, antelopes and mountain 
 sheep, September 1 to January 1. Grouse of all kinds, September 1 to 
 January 1. Ducks, snipes, geese, brants, plovers and curlews, Septem- 
 ber 1 to May I. Not more than twenty-five of any of the game birds or 
 fowl mentioned allowed to be killed or had in possession at any one 
 time. Their nests and eggs protected. Exportation of game prohibit- 
 ed; not more than one dozen of either of said birds allowed to be shipped 
 or transported in any one day within the State by any one person, after 
 nuking affidavit that said birds have been legally killed. Shoulder guns 
 only allowed; all other devices, poisons, traps, etc., prohibited. Wasting 
 game or leaving the same lying about, prohibited. Pike, pickerel, 
 perch, bass^ mascalonge, May 1 to February 1. Fishing' with hook and 
 line only allowed; all other devices prohibited. 
 
 OHIO.— Deer, October 15 to November 20. Quails, November 10 to 
 December 15. Squirrels, July 1 to December 15. Woodcocks, July 
 15 to November 1. Buffed grouse or pheasants and prairie-chickens, 
 September 1 to December 15. Ducks, September 1 to April 10. 
 Turkeys, October 1 to December 15. Trapping or snaring quails or 
 partridges prohibited. The use of any other gun than a shoulder gun, 
 artificial light, sink boat or battery, steam or naphtha launch, net or 
 trap, prohibited. Nests and eggs of all game birds and fowl protected. 
 Ducks shall not be hunted on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday of any week 
 between September 1 and April 10. Sunday hunting prohibited at all 
 times. Swans, insectivorous birds and their nests protected at all 
 times. Disturbing pigeon roosts or discharging any firearm at any wild 
 pigeon within one-half mile of a wild pigeon roost, prohibited. The use 
 of ferrets for catching rabbits on the premises of another, prohibited. 
 Muskrats, minks, and otters, March 1 to April 15. Brook trout, salmon, 
 land-locked salmon, or California salmon, March 14 to September 15. With 
 these exceptions there are no restrictions to fishing with hopk and line, 
 with bait or lure, except that bass under eight inches in length, and fish 
 in private or posted waters are protected. Netting and seining are 
 allowed in many waters subject to specific or local laws. Explosives, 
 poisonous drugs, spearing, shooting, trespassing, and selling or having 
 la possession any^ kind of fish in close season, prohibited. Spearing 
 supkers la allowed in all streams flowing into Lake Erie. , 
 
38 GAME LAWS. 
 
 OEEGON.— Male deeif or buck, July 1 to November 1 ; female ae«r or 
 doe, August 1 to January 1 ; spotted fawns protected ; neither male nor 
 female deer can be killed at any time for other than food purposes. 
 Elks, moose and mountain sheep, August 1 to November 1 ; shall not be 
 killed for other than food purposes ; wilds swans and ducks, September 
 1 to March 1 ; ducks can be killed at any time to protect growing crops ; 
 grouse, pheaaanta. mongolian pheasants, quails or partridges, Septem- 
 ber 1 to November 15; netting and snaring quails, prairie chickens 
 and ruffed grouse, or having the same in possession alive, prohibfted ; 
 nests and eggs of game birds and wildfowl protected. Riug-neqk Mongo- 
 lian pheasants, Tragopan pheasants, silver pheasants and golden pheas- 
 ants protected. Mountain or brook trout, April 1 to November 1. Red- 
 ftsh and lake trout, January 1 to August 10. Salmon protected in the 
 Columbia River during March, August, September and during the weekly 
 close times in April, May, June and July, i..e., from 6 p. m. Saturday to 
 6 p. m. Sunday ; taking them with any other device than hook and line 
 prohibited in any other waters, April 1 to November 15. Fishing near 
 flshways, drugs, explosives, nets, pollution of streams, etc., and tres- 
 pass, prohibited. 
 
 PENNSYfcVANIA.— Elks and deer October I to December 15; but ow- 
 ing to an error, it is illegal to have deer in possession after November 
 30 The killing of fawns when in spotted coat, chasing of elks or deer 
 ^ith hounds, and the killing of deer when in the water prohibited. 
 Squirrels, September 1 to January 1 Hares or rabbits, November 1 to 
 January 1. Hunting or killing of rabbits with ferrets prohibited. 
 Wild turkeys, October 15 to January 1. Plovers, July 16 to January 1. 
 Woodcocks, July 4 to January 1. Quails, November 1 to December 16. 
 Ruffed and pinnated grouse, October 1 to January 1. Rails or reed 
 birds, September 1 to December 1. Wildfowl, September 1 to May 1. 
 Insectivorous birds protected, except English sparrows. Pigeon nestingsl 
 protected against firearms to a radius of one-fourth mile from roosting 
 or breeding place, and penalty for disturbance in any manner while 
 nesting; and snaring or netting for the purpose of killing during the 
 nesting season prohibited. Snaring, netting or catching of game birds 
 by torchlight prohibited. Sunday hunting and shooting pr(^lbited 
 Shooting of wildfowl limited to use of shoulder gun only. Sea salmon, 
 April 1 to July 1 Speckled trout. April 15 to July 15; under five inches 
 In length protected. Lake trout, January 1 to October 1. Black, green^ - 
 yellow, willow, rock, Lake Erie and grass bass, pike, pickerel, and wall-' 
 eyed pike or Susquehanna salmon, June 1 to January 1. Bass less than 
 six inches in length protected. German carp, September 1 to May 1. 
 Artificially stocked streams protected for three years after stocking. HoQk 
 and line fishing only allowed; use of nets or traps of any kind, poisons 
 6to„ prohibited . 
 
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 RHODE ISLAND. — Woodcocks, ruffed grouse or partridges, September 
 1 to January 1. Quails, October 1 to January i. Bartram's tattlers or 
 grass plovers, August 1 to April 1. Dusky or black ducks, wood or Sum- 
 mer ducks, and blue or green-winged teals, September 1 to March 1, 
 grouse or heath-hen, November 1 to January 1. Trapping prohibited, 
 and shoulder guns only allowed . Squirrels, rabbits and hares, September 
 1 to January 1; uce of ferrets or weasels to catch rabbits or hares forbid- 
 den. Wild pigeons, August 10 to January 1. Eggs and nests protected. 
 All fresh water ducks other than those before mentioned, all sea ducks, 
 geese, crowa, kingfishers, crow blackbirds, herons, bitterns, plovers (ex- 
 cept as mentioned above), curlews, rails, sandpipers, Snipes and all birds 
 of prey except fish-hawks, or ospreys, may be killed at any time. Trout, 
 March 1 to August 15; less than six inches in length prctected at all times. 
 Black bass protected until 1893; after that, July 15 to March 1 . Hook 
 and line fishing only allowed 
 
 SOUTH CAROLINA.— Deer, September 1 to February 1, except in the 
 counties of Clarendon Georgetown, Colleton, Williamsburg, Marlboro, 
 Kershaw, Harry, Darlington, Marion and Berkeley, where it is August 1 
 to February 1. Wild turkeys, ruffed grouse, woodcocks and quails or 
 partridges, November 1 to April 1. Doves, August 1 to March 1. In- 
 aectivorous birds protected. Fire-hunting prohibited. Non-residents 
 
 SOUTH DAKOTA.— Prairie chickens, ruffed and sharp-tailed grouse, 
 August 15 to January 1. Snipes, plovers, curlews and waterfowl, Sep. 
 i<^mber 1 to May 15. Quails protected until February 3, 1893. Song 
 and Insectivorous birds protected. Netting and trapping prohibited. 
 Shooting of more than twenty-five birds of one kind in a day or the 
 possession of the same prohibited. Shipping out of State, and the ship- 
 ment of more than twelve birds within the State, prohibited. Deier, buf- 
 falos, elks, antelopes and mountain sheep, September 1 to January 1. 
 In the counties of Clay, Union and Lincoln, deer from October 1 to Jan- 
 uary 1.. Bass, mascalonge, pike, pickerel and perch. May 1 to February 
 I. Those intended for breeding may be taken at any time. Netting 
 prohibited except in the Missouri and Red rivers. Shipment out of the 
 State of carcass of buffalo, elk, deer, antelope or mountain sheep pro- 
 hibited. 
 
 TENNESSEE.— In counties of Anderson, Cheatham, Coffee, Davidson, 
 Dickson, Fayette, Fentress, Giles, Grundy, Hamblen, Hamilton, Hancock, 
 Hardeman, Haywood, Henry, Houston, Jefferson, Knox, Lake, Lincoln, 
 l^ndon, McMinn, Madison, Monroe, Montgomery, Obion, Roane, Ruther- 
 ford, Sevier, Shelby, Stewart, Sullivan, Sumner, Tipton, Trousdale, 
 Unicoi, Williamson and Wilson, unlawful to kill or hunt deer for profit, 
 except that citizens may kill deer for profit on their own lands' from 
 Au^Bt 1 to Janufiry 1. and during that period may hunt or kill deer for 
 
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 their own coMumption. Unlawful In these counties for any person to 
 hunt, net, trap or capture any quail or partridge except from November 1 
 to March 1, and not then for profit, except that, during that season, a 
 citizen may do so for profit on his own land but not elsewhere. Netting 
 quails at any season by any person prohibited in said counties , In 
 counties of Scott, Fentress, Pickett, Morgan, Cumberland, Bledsoe, 
 Sequatchie, Van Buren, White, Putnam, Rhea, Clay, Campbell, Henry. 
 Johnson, Carter, Sullivan, Meigs, Claiborne, Grundy, James, Overton, 
 Marion, Roane, and Warren unlawful for non-residents to hunt, kill, 
 catch or capture any species of game or fish, and unlawful for any person 
 to hunt or kill any species of game for profit. Morgan County, deer and 
 wild turkeys, October 1 to December 1. Benton and Humphreys counties, 
 deer, September 1 to January 1. Dyer, Maury, and Bedford counties, 
 deer, September 1 to March 1. Pheasants, grouse, quails, partridges, 
 larks, woodcocks, and snipes, September 15 to March 1 ; wild turkeys, 
 September 16 to May 1 ; song and insectivorous birds and nests protected. 
 Unlawful to trap or net gcme. Robertson and Maury counties, wild 
 turkeys, partridges, quails, grouse, pheasants, woodcocks, snipes and 
 larks, September 1 ta February 1. Shelby County, squirrels, September 
 ] to February 1 ; nests and eggs protected. Montgomery and Cheatham 
 counties, grouse or pheasants and larks, October 15 to March 1 ; wood- 
 cocks, doves and wild turkeys, August 1 to March 1 ; snipes, plovers or 
 ducks, September 1 to May 1. Johnson, Carter, Washington, Greene 
 and Marion counties, partridges, quails, woodcocks, pheasants and wild 
 turkeys, October 1 to April 1 ; Unicoi, Hamilton, Henry and Haywood 
 counties, woodcocks, pheasants and wild turkeys, October 1 to ApWl 1 ; 
 unlawful to export game mentioned from these counties beyond the limits 
 of the State ; this does not apply to persons killing game on their own 
 premises. Johnson and Carter counties, deer protected. Bedford County, 
 partridges may be trapped ornetted September 15 to March 1 ; wild 
 turkeys may be trapped September 15 to May 1. The use of dynamite, 
 giant powder, explosive or any other substance, other than angling with 
 hook and line prohibited. Use of hand or minnow net for taking small 
 flah or minnows for bait allowed, 
 
 TEXAS.— Deer, June 1 to December 1. Wild turkeys, September 1 to 
 May 16. Prairie chickens, August 1 to March 1. Quails and partridges, 
 October 1 to April 1. Song and insectivorous birds protected. No sein- 
 ing, trapping or netting of fish permitted above tidewater from Febru- 
 ary 1 to July 1. Use of nets or seins with meshes less than two and one- 
 half inches square, drugs, explosives and poisons, prohibited. Owing to 
 their being too thinly settled or unorganized, these provisions do not ap- 
 ply to the counties of Anderson, Andrews, Angelina, Archer, Armstrong 
 Ataecosa, Bailey, Baylor, Bell,- Borden, Bosque, Brazos, Briscoe, Brown, 
 Callahan, Cameron, Camp, Carson, Cass, Castro, Cherokee, Chlldres, Clay, 
 Cochran, Collin, Collingsworth, Comanche, Cooke, Coryell, Cottle, Crosby, 
 
GAME LAWS. 41 
 
 Dallam, Dawson, Dea5 Smith, Delta, Dickens, Dimmlftt, Donley, Easland, 
 Ellis, Erathi, Fisher, Floyd, Franklin, Freestone, Frio, Gaines, Garza, 
 Gonzales, Grar, Greer, Gaudalupe, Grimes, Hale, Hall, Hamilton, Hans- 
 ford, Hardeman, Hartley, Haskell, Hemphill, Hockley, Hood, Hopkins, 
 Howard, Hunt, Hutchinson, Jack, Jackson, Jones, Karnes, Kent, King, 
 Kinney, Knox, Lamb, Lipscomb, Lubbock, Lynn, Martin, Maverick, 
 Mitchell, MontJ^gue, Montgomery, Moore, Morris, Motley, Nacogdoches, 
 Nolan, Ochiltree, Oldham, Palo Pinto, Parmer, Polk, Potter, Rains, Ran- 
 dall, Robert, Robertson Rockwall. Runnells, Sabine, San Augustine, San 
 Jacinto, Scurry, Shackletford, Shelby, Sherman, Smith, Somervell, 
 Stephens, Stonewall, Swisher, Taylor, Terry, Throckmorton, Titus, 
 Upshur, Van Zandt, Walker, Wheeler, Wichita, Wilbarger, Wilson, Wise, 
 Wood, Young, Yoakum, Zavalla. Houston protects Quails, only, as 
 above. Fannin County protects prairie chickens, quails and insectivor- 
 ous birds, as above. Lee and Fayette protect turkeys, prairie chickens 
 and quails, as above. Bastrop and Brazoria protect deer, turkeys, pral. 
 rie chfckens and quails, is above. Kaufman protects quails and insectiv- 
 orous birds, as above. Bowie protects deer and turkeys, as above. 
 
 UTAH.— Elks, deer, buffalosor bisons, antelopes and mountain sheep, 
 September 1 to December 1. Hounding prohibited; dogs in pursuit of 
 above animals may be legally killed. Hide and skin hunting, the expor- 
 tation of game animals or fish, or having in possession during the close 
 season, prohibited. Quails, partridges, pheasants, prairie chickens and 
 sage-hens or grouse, August 15 to March 15. Wild geese, ducks and snipes, 
 September 1 to April 1. Night hunting and trapping prohibited. Insec- 
 tivorous birds, the English sparrow and blackbird excepted, protected. 
 Neets protected. Trout, June 15 to February 15. Trout less than six 
 inches in length pirotected. Imported fish protected. Seining, with law- 
 ful size meshes, in Bear and Utah Lakes, October 1 to March 1; in Gre3n 
 Jliver at any time. The use of set lines, nets, seines, weirs, dams or 
 other artificial obstructions, poisons, drugs and explosives of any kind, 
 prohibited. Indians are not exempt from the laws except on their res- 
 ervations. 
 
 VERMONT. — Gray squirrels, September 1 to February 1. Quails and 
 ruffed grouse, September 1 to February 1. Hunting ruffed grouse 
 with dogs prohibited. Woodcocks, August 15 to February 1. Wildfowl, 
 September 1 to February 1, except woodducks. Nests and eggs, pro- 
 tected, and trapping and snaring forbidden. Insectivorous birds, eggs 
 and nests protected. Sunday shooting prohibited. Deer protected 
 until 1900. Minks, beavers, fisners and otters, November 1 to April 1. 
 Trout, land-locked salmon, salmon trout or longe, May 1 to September 1. 
 Trout, land-locked salmon and salmon trout less than six inches in 
 length, protected. Black bass, June 1 to February 1. Black bc^ss less than 
 ten inches in length, protected. Whitefish or lake shad, November 15 to 
 
43 GAME LAWS. 
 
 November 1. Wall-eyed pike, pike-pcrch, JiiDe 1 to Febniary 1. Fish- 
 ing allowed with liook and line only All other devices prohibited. Local 
 laws govern many waters 
 
 VIRGINIA —The game and tit^h laws of Vir^aiiiii are so complicated 
 that it is almost impossible to compile an intelligible synopsis of them, 
 the State law not being in force in the majority of counties owing to lo- 
 cal enactments. A license in writing must be obtained from the owner 
 or tenant of any land or watercourse. Non-residents prohibited from 
 killing any wildfowl below the head of tidewater. Night shooting and 
 shooting from skifTs, floats or sink boxes prohibited Deer, August 15 to 
 January 1; Essex County, August 15 to February 1; Frederick and Shen- 
 andoah counties, September 15 to December 15; Ring and Queen coun- 
 ties, August 15 to February 1; King William County October 1 tojFebruary 
 1; Lancaster and Richmond counties, October f) to February 1. Pro- 
 tected in Page County; Rockingham County, October 1 to November 15. 
 Hounding prohibited by State and county laws, with slight exceptions. 
 Pheasants or ruffed grouse and turkevs, Sepember 15 to February 1, in the 
 counties west of the Blue Ridge i except Rockbridge), and in Rockbridge 
 and counties east of the Blue Ridge (except Prince Edward ), October 15 
 to January 15; Prince Edward^^ounty, October 15 to March 1. Turkeys, 
 Frederick and Shenandoah counties, November 1 to February 1; Isle of 
 Wight, Nansemond and Southampton counties, September 15 to Febru- 
 ary 15; King and Queen counties, August 15 to February 1; King Will- 
 lam County, November 1 to March 15. Wild fowl (except Summer 
 ducks), September 15 to May 1. Woodcocks, November 1 to April 1; 
 Frederick and Shenandoah counties, July 1 to April 1; Alexandria and 
 Fairfax counties, July 4 to January 1; Loudon County, June 15 to Jan- 
 uary 1. Partridges or quails in the following ^counties as noted here- 
 with: From October 16 to January 15: Albemarle, Alexandria, Buck- 
 ingham. Buchanan, Campbell, Charles City, Charlotte, Chesterfield, Cul- 
 peper.Elizabeth City, Fairfax, Fauquier, Fluvanna, Gloucester. Gooch- 
 land Greene, James City, King George, King William, Louisa, 
 Madison, Matthews, Middlesex, Nelson, New Kent, Northumber- 
 land, Orange, Patrick, Pittsylvania, Powhatan, Prince George, Prince 
 William, Rappahannock, Spotsylvania, Stafford, Surry, Warwick, West- 
 moreland, York. From October 15 to January 1: Bland, Botetourt, 
 Carroll, Craig, Dickinson, Floyd, Giles, Lee. Loudon, Montgomery, 
 Page, Pulaski, Roanoke, Russell, Rockingham, Tazewell, Wise, Warren. 
 From October 15 to March 1: Prince Edward. From October 15 to 
 February 1: Lancaster, Richmond. From October 15 to February 15: 
 Halifax, Hapover Henrico, King and Queen. From October 31 to De- 
 cember 25: Clarke. From November 1 to January 1: 
 Frederick, Shenandoah. From November 1 to February 
 15: Henry, Nansemond, Isle of Wight, Southampton. 
 From November 1 to March 1: King William. From November 1 to 
 
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 February 1: Accomac, Alleghany, Amherst, Augusta, Bath, Bedford, 
 Caroline, Essex, Franklin, Grayson, Highland, Northampton, Norfolk, 
 Rockbridge, Scott, Smyth, Washington. Wythe. From November 15 to 
 February 15: Princess Anne. The counties of Amelia, Appomattox, 
 Brunswick, Cumberland, Dinwiddle, Greensville. Lunenburg, Mecklen- 
 burg, Nottoway and Sussex, have no law on the subject. Mountain 
 trout, April 1 to September 15. Bass of any kind, July 1 to May 15. 
 Hook and line fishing only allowed. Nets, traps, weirs, obstructions to 
 free passage of fish, drugs, poisons, pollution of stieams, etc., prohib- 
 ited. Local laws regulate fishing in the proximity fiff dams, junctions, 
 mill ponds, etc. 
 
 WASHINGTON,— Deer, moose, elks, mountain sheep and mountain 
 goats, for food purposes only, August 15 to January 1. Hide and head 
 'hunting prohibited. Hounding elks or moose except during October, 
 November and December, prohibited. Hounding* deer prohibited at all 
 times. Swans and wild ducks of any kind, August 15 to April 1. Prairie 
 chickens,mouatain grouse, blue grou8e,pintail grouse.pheasants and sage,- 
 hens, August 1 to January 1. California anS Bob White quails, October 
 1 to January 15. Trappij;ig and snaring prohibited. ' Nests and eggs of 
 all game birds and fowl protected at all times. Night hunting prohibited. 
 Shooting with swivel or pivot guns, or from sink boxes, rafts, sneak boats, 
 or other devices, except from shore blinds or over decoys, prohibited. 
 Brook trout, mountain trout, bull trout and salmon trout. May 1 to 
 November 1; with hook and line only. Fishing for salmon within 
 one mile below any obstruction erected to obtain fish for propagation, 
 or use of nets, weirs, seineH, traps or other similar devices, drugs, ex- 
 plosives, etc., prohibited. Trespass prohitjited; lands and waters must 
 be posted. Fish planted in waters protected for three years after plant- 
 ing. Salmon, in Columbia River and tributaries, April 10 to August 10 
 and September 10 to March 1; protected at all times between 6 p. m. Satur- 
 day and 6 p. m. following Sunday. Gray's Harbor, Shoalwater Bay and 
 tributaries, December 15 to November 15. Puget Sound, June 1 to March 
 1. Pollution of streams prohibited, and dams must have fishways. From 
 and after January 1, 1892, foreigners and non-residents prohibited from 
 taking for sale or profit any salmon, sturgeon or other fooi fish. Fish 
 co;nml8sioner appointed, with salary of $2,OO0 and expenses. Game war- 
 den and deputies appointed by the Governor. 
 
 WEST VIRGINIA.— Quails, November 1 to December 20. Wild tur- 
 keys, September 15 to January 1. Ruffed and pMnated grouse, Nove m- 
 ber 1 to January 1, Snipes, March 1 to July 1. Woodcocks, July 1 to 
 September 15. Wild ducks, geese and brants, October 1 to April 1, Deer, 
 September 15 to December 15. Insectivorous and song birds, their nests, 
 and eggs, and those of game birds and waterfowl, protected. Snaring, 
 netting or trapping, and the use of swivel or pivot guns, or aneak op pusli 
 
44 GAME LAWS. 
 
 boats, forbidden. Hounding deer prohibited until June, 1892, Trouit 
 ' and land-locked salmon, January 1 to September 1. Jack salmon or 
 white salmon, June 15 to April 1. Nets, weirs, traps, obstructions, poi- 
 sons, drugs, explosives and trespass, prohibited. 
 
 WISCONSIN.— Woodcocks, quails (except in Walworth, Rock, Jeffer- 
 son, Waukesha, Milwaukee, and Racine counties, where quails, their 
 nests and eggs are protected until September 1, 1894), partridges, 
 pheasants or ruffed grouse, prairie chickens, sharp-tailed grouse, or 
 grouse of any "other variety, snipes plovers, mallard, teal or wood ducks, 
 September 1 tp December 1. Wild ducks of any other variety, wild geese 
 or brants of any variety, or any aquatic fowls whatever, Septemb^ 1 to 
 May 1. Hunting quails or any kind of grouse( partridge, pheasant, or prairie 
 chicken) with dogs prohibited until September 1, 1893. Squirrels, August 
 1 to December 1. Deer, November 1 to Decemb3r 1. Hounding or wor- 
 rying deer prohibited at all times. Snaring, netting, trapping, spring 
 guns, pivot guns, swivel guns, or any similar contrivance, or any firearm 
 other than a shoulder gun, prohibited. Sneak boats, scull boats, sail- 
 boats, steamboats or floating rafts or. boxes, or any similar device; or 
 any blinds in open water outside the natural growth of grass or rushes,- 
 prohibited. Otters, martens, and fishes, November I to May 1. The use 
 of dogs or ferrets, nets, traps, snares, clubs or sticks, in the taking or 
 killing of hares or rabbits, prohibited. Eggs and nests of wild pigeons, /■ 
 game and song and insectivorous birds protefeted. Pigeons protected 
 within three miles of theif roost. English sparrows not protected. Brook, 
 rainbow and mountain trout, April 15 to Septemb3r 1. Mackinaw (lake) 
 trout, January 15 to October]. Pike (wall-eyed), May 1 to March 1, 
 Black, green and Oswego bass, and mascaloiige. May 1 to February 1. 
 Hook and line only. Whi'.efish may be taken in inland waters with a dip- 
 net having a hoop not exceeding thirty inches in diameter fjt>m Novem- 
 ber 10 to December 15. With this exception the use of any gill, fyke, 
 pound, seine, dip or other net or snare is prohibited in the inland lakes, 
 rivers or streams of the State. Minnows, shiners, chubs, dace, suckers 
 or stickle-backs may be caught for bait in quantities not exceeding one- 
 half bushel in measure, at any one time, by means of a dip-net or seine, 
 except in streams or waters inhabited by or containing trout of any 
 variety. No such fish caught for bait allowed to be shipped out of th3 
 State. The use of dynamite or other explosives, and the pollution 
 waters with sawdust, fish offal, etc., prohibited. Spearing prohibited, 
 except in the wavers of the Mississippi River and sloughs, Lake Winne- 
 bago, Fox and Wolf rivers, and all waters emptying into Green Bay, where 
 sturgeons and pickerel only may be speared. Catching brook, rainbow 
 or mountain trout for sale, out of public waters, is prohibited. The sale 
 of any wall-eyed pike, black bass and frog bass, of less than one pound 
 each, prohibited. It is unlawful for any person to have in his possession 
 to exceed ten pounds of wall-eyed pike, black basa or frog bass weighing 
 
GAME LAWS. 45 
 
 less than one pound each. Entering on posted preserves without consent 
 of owner is trespass. Local laws arj in force in many counties. A paid 
 State game and flsh warden, to hold office for two years, is appointed 
 by the Governor, He may appoint as many deputies as he desires, the 
 latter to receive constable's fees for performance of duty. 
 
 WYOMING.— Partridges, pheasants, prairie chickens, prairie hens or 
 grouse, August 15 to November 1. Sage chickens, July 15 to September 
 15. Snipes, green shanks, tatlers, godwits, curlews, avocets, or other 
 waders, plovers, quails, larks, whip-poor-wills, finches, thrushes, snow_ 
 birds, turkeys, buzzards, robins or other insectivorous birds, protected 
 at all times. Wild ducks, August 1 to May 1. Deer, elks, moose, mount- 
 ain sheep, mountain goats, antelopes, protected at all times, except that 
 a bona fide resident may at any time kill not more than three of any of 
 said animals in any one week, for the purpose only of supplying himself 
 and family with food. Non-residents prohibited from hunting them at 
 any time. Bison or buffalos and beavers protected until March 15, 1900- 
 Exportation of game, hides or heads prohibited. Any game brought 
 into the State must be accompanied by an affidavit, to be recorded in the 
 office of the county clerk and recorder of the county, to prove that said 
 game was not killed in any other State or Territory in violation of the 
 laws of such State or Territory. Trapping and netting prohibited. 
 Justices of the peace are empowered to appoint special gama constables. \ 
 
46 CAME LAWS. 
 
 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. 
 
 QUEBEC— Moose and caribou, September 1 to February 1, Deer, 
 October 1 to Januai-y \. Hounding, snaring and trapping prohibited. 
 Unless a special permit is first obtained from the Commissioner of Crown 
 Lands, no person (Indian not exempted) shall kill more than two moose 
 three caribous and four deer during the hunting season. After the first 
 ten days of the close season transportation of any game prohibited. 
 Beavers, ininks, otters, martens and pekans, November 1 to April 1, 
 Muskrats, in counties of Maskinonge, Yamaska, Richelieu and Berthier, 
 April 1 to M '.y 1. Hares, November 1 to February 1. Woodcocks, snipes 
 and partridges, September 1 to February 1. Ducks of all kinds, Septem- 
 ber 1 to May, 1. Other birds, except eagles, falcons, hawks, wild pigeons, 
 kingfishers, crows, ravens, waxwings, shrikes, jays, magpies, sparrows 
 and starlings, September 1 to March I. Guns of larger than 8-bore pro- 
 hibited. Snaring and trapping, except of partridges, prohibited. Night 
 hunting and exportation of game prohibited. Nests and eggs protected 
 A license required for persons not residents of Quebec or Ontario to hunt 
 or fish. Salmon, February 1 to August 15. Ouananiche, December 1 to 
 September 15 Speckled trout, January 1 to October 1. Gr&y trout and 
 lunge. December 1 to October 15. Pickerel, May 15 to April 15. Bass and 
 mascalonge, June 15 to April 15. Whitefish, December 1 to November 
 10. Fishing with hook and line only permitted. 
 
 ONTARIO.— Deer, October 15 to November 20. Modsa, elks, reindeer 
 or caribous entirely protected until October 15, 1895, Prior to 1895 no 
 person not a resident of Ontario or Quebec for three months shall at any 
 time kill or hunt deer, elks, moose, reindeer or caribous ; neither shall 
 any person kill more than five deer in one year, hunting parties of two 
 not more than eight, and hunting parties of three or more not more than 
 twelve. Grouse, pheasants, prairie fowls and partridges, r-'optember 1 to 
 January 1. Quails and turkeys, October 15 to December 15. Woodcocks, 
 August 15 to January 1. Snipes, rails and plovers, September 1 to Janu- 
 ary 1. Ducks, September 1 to January 1. Swans and geese, September 
 1 to May 1. Hares, September 1 to March 15 Quails cannot be scfld, 
 bought or bartered for in any way. Beavers, minks, musk- 
 rats, martens, raccoons, otters or fishers, November 1 to May 1. Trap- 
 ping, snaring, swivel guns, poisoned baits, etc , night shooting, and 
 trespass, prohibited. Insectivorous birds, their nests and eggs, and those 
 of all game birds, protected. Salmon, trout and whitefish, December 1 
 to November 1. Fresh water herring. December 1 to October 15. Speckled, 
 river and brook trout. May 1 to September 15. Bass and mascalonge. 
 
GAME LAWS. 47 
 
 June 15 to April 15, Pickepel (;dore), May 15 to April 15. Use of nets, 
 explosives, spears or grapple hooks prohibited. 
 
 MANITOBA. -Ail kinds of deer, including cabri or antelopes, elks or 
 wapiti, moose, reindeer and caribous, or their fawns, October 1 to De- 
 cember 1. Grouse, partridges, prairie chickens and pheasants, Septem- 
 ber 1 to December 1. Woodcocks, plovers (except golden plovers), snipes 
 and sandpipers, August 1 to January 1. Any kind of wild duck, sea duck, 
 widgeon, teal, wild swan, or wild goose, except the variety of wild goose 
 commonly known as "the wavey'' or "snow goose," September 1 to May 
 1. Nests and eggs of game birds protected. Otters, fishers, pekans, 
 beavers, muski-ats and sables, October 1 to May 15. Martens, November 
 1 to April 15. Trapping and netting, excepting of otters, fishers, beavers 
 muskrats, martens and pekans, prohibited. Poisons, batteries, swivel 
 guns, sunken punts and night lights and spring guns prohibited. Expor- 
 tation of game birds and animals, without a permit, prohibited. Hunt- 
 ing on lands without permission of ownerforbidden. Insectivorous birds, 
 nests and egg protected. Sunday shootinsf prohibited. Transportation 
 of game forbidden during the close season. Non-residents proliibited 
 from shooting unless provided with a license (costing $25). Pickerel 
 idoro). May 15 to April 16. Speckled trout, January 1 to October 1. 
 Explosives and poisons prohibited. 
 
 BRITISH COLUMBIA.— Deer, elks, reindeer, caribou, mountain goats, 
 mountain sheep and hares, August 15 to December 20. , Cow elks pro- 
 tected at all times. Grouse, partridges, prairie fowl, California' and Vir- 
 ginia quails, robins and meadow larks, September 1 to Febiruary 1. 
 Wild ducks, September 1 to March 1. Cock pheasants, October 1 to Feb- 
 ruary 1. Hen pheasants protected at all times. Night hunting prohib- 
 ited. Houndiltg deer prohibited except east of the Cascades. Cock 
 pheasant.^ and (juails are protected on the mainland until September 1, 
 1894 ; may be shot as above stated on Vancouver Island. Insectivorous 
 birds and their nests protected. Gulls protected in the harbors and 
 tributary streams of Victoria, E-!(iuimault, New Westminster, Nauaimo 
 or Vancouver. Skin hunting and exporting prohibited. The sale of any 
 pheasant, fawn or deer under the age of twelve months, and does of any 
 age, prohibited. A non-resident must procure a license to shoot game 
 animals. Trout, March 15 to October 16. ' Nets, weirs, seines, or similar 
 devices, explosives, drugs and poisons prohibited « 
 
 NEW BRUNSWICK.— Moose (bull), deer and caribou, September 1 to 
 January 15. Cow moose are protected absolutely. Partridges or ruffed 
 grouse, September 20 to December 1. Snipes, September 15 to March 1. 
 Woodcocks and teal ducks, September 1 to Deaembur 1. Geese, ducks 
 and brants, September 1 to May 1. Hire3 anl rabbits, September 1 to 
 •March 1. Mink, otter, fisher, sable and beaver, September 1 to May 1. 
 Night hunting by artificial lighV and use of swivel or punt gun prohibit- 
 ed. Non-residents prohibited to hunt without a license. Hounding 
 moose, caribou and deer prohibited. Bunduy shooting and ©xportatipu 
 
4g r-.AME IMWS. 
 
 of game prohibited. No person or party Is allowed t6 kill more than one 
 moose, two caribous or three rei deer durln? any one season. Sea-guHs 
 protected in the parish of Grand Manan. Bass, October 1 to March I. 
 BaHS of less than two pounds, protected. Salmon, March 1 to August 15. 
 Fly fishing for salmon, August 15 to February 1. Speckled trout and 
 land-locked salmon, May 1 to September 15. Explosives, nets, traps, etc , 
 prohibited. 
 
 NOVA SCOTIA.— Moo«e and caribou, September 15 to February I. 
 liares or rabbits, October 1 to March 1. Otter and mink, November 1 to 
 May 1. Beavers, and furred animals, November lto.\prll 1. Grourteor 
 partridge, September 15 to January 1. Woodcocks, snipes and teal 
 ducks, August 20 to March 1. Blue-wing and black ducks, August 1 to 
 April 1. Woodcocks must not be shot before sunrise or after sunset. No 
 person shall kill more than two mot)se or four caribou In one season. 
 Pheasants protected. Song and Insectivorous birds protocte<l. Non- 
 re«l<leits prohibited to hunt without a llcei^e. Exportation <»f game or 
 hides prohibited. Bn«i8 ti-hlnjr at any time with hook and line only ; bass 
 imder two pounds weight protected. Salmon, March 1 to .\ugust 15 ; fly 
 fishing, February 1 to August 15. Speckled trout, lake trout or land- 
 locked salmon, April 1 to October I. Explosives, traps, net«, etc., pro- 
 hlbitod. 
 
 NEWFOUNDf.ANi) Moose and elk* protect©«l until Jaouary 1, ISUtV 
 Caribou, October 1 to February 15. Not more than five stag aiil 
 three hlntl caribou allowed to be killed In any one season. Deer. 
 Jaiy 15 to March 1. Rabbits or hares, September 1 to March I 
 Otters and beavers, October 1 to April 1. Curlews, plovers, snipes, or 
 other wild or migratory birds (excepting wild g«eee), August 20 to Jan- 
 uary 12. Grouse or partridge, September 15 to January 12. Wild geese. 
 August 29 to April 1. Capercailzie protected. License for non-resident - 
 re<iulred. Sunday shooting and exportation of game prohlbIte<l. Trout . 
 char, whlteflsh, laud lookoil salmon, or any frej»h water or any mlgrat.)ry 
 fish, DecetulKjr 1 to September 15. Salmon, May 1 to SepteniU»r 10. Net**, 
 traps, weirs, explosives, etc., prohibited. IJcense re«iulre.l. 
 
 NORTHWEST TERRITORIES. - Elks, nuxjne, carib<>u,'antelope«,deor. 
 mountain sheep or goat, hares, September 1 t«» FeKruary 1. Sniper, 
 August 15 to May I. Grouse, partridges, pheasanlx, prairie chickens. 
 September 1 to February 1. Ducks and geese, Augusl 15 to May 1.. 
 Snaring, trapping, baiting, etc., pn)hlblted. Kx{K)rtallon prohibitei 
 Game may be killed at any time to prevent starvation, but not more 
 than Immedlote want demands. Pickerel, May 15 to April 15 8peckl«d 
 trout, January 1 to October I. Explosive.'*, nets, etc., prohibited. 
 * PRINCE EDWARDS ISLAND —Partridges or ruffed grouse, October 
 1 to February 15. Woodcocks and snipes. August 20 to January 1. Duck-, 
 August 10 to March 1. Night shooting, sneak boat^, or any similar d.- 
 vices, prohibited. Trout, December 1 to October 1, with hook and Hue 
 only. 
 
AMERICAN RULES 
 
 FOR TRAP SHOOTING. 
 Adopted b7 the National Oun Association. 
 
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50 AMERICAN RUT-ES. 
 
 lluLE G. Use of Second Barrel— Where special matches are arranged, 
 allowing the use of both barrels at single birds, a kill or break with the second 
 ))arrel shall be scored one-half. 
 
 RuT>E 7. Scoring Incorrect Handicap.— "So member is to shoot at a dis- 
 tance nearer than that at which be is handicapped. If he does so, the first 
 time the shot shall be scored "no bird;" the second time it shall be scored a 
 "lost !)ir(l;" and the third time he shall forfeit all rights in the contest, and be 
 barred from all other contests during the same meeting, and be subject to such 
 additional fines and penalties as the Constitution and By-Laws may provide. 
 
 RuLK 8. Closing nf Entries.— AW entries shall close at the tiring of the first 
 gun. In large internationd;! or interstate tournaments, all entries tor the first 
 Jiiatcli each day shall be made before G P. M. of the day preceding the shoot, 
 by depositing 10 per cent of the entrance fee, whicli shall be forfeited to the 
 management if the entry is not completed before the firing of the first gun. • 
 
 RuLEi*. Class Shooting.— A\l sweepstakes shall be Class Shooting unless 
 otherwise specified. 
 
 Rule lO. Names Claimed.— The Secretary shall keep a book in which he 
 sliall record the names of all the members who desire to shoot under an 
 assumed name, and record the name assumed by each. He shall make a 
 charge of 130 cents, and no more, for each name recorded. No two members 
 shall shoot under the same assumed name. The Secretary may, at the request 
 of a member, issue the handicap card to him. bearing his assumed title only. 
 
 Rule ll. Score with Ink only.—AU scoring shall be done with ink or in- 
 delible pencil. The scoring of a "lost bird" shall be indicated bya"0;" of a 
 "dead"' or "broken" bird by a "1." 
 
 ART. III.— THE TRAPS. 
 
 Rule 12. Arrangemmt of Traps.— Five traps shall be used. They shall 
 be set level upon the ground, without any inequahties of setting in either, in an 
 arc of a circle, five yards apart. The radius of the circle shall be eighteen 
 yards. The traps sliall be numbered from No. i, upon the left, to No. 5, upon 
 the right, consecutively. In all traps, except No. 3, the fourth notch, or a 
 maximum velocity equivalent thereto, shall he used, and the elex-ation of the 
 projecting arm siall not exceed 15 degrees, viz., so as to throw the pigeons 
 froni four to fifteen feet in vertical height above the level of the trap bottom. 
 In trap No. 3, the third notch, or a velocity equivalent thereto, shall be used, 
 with the same elevation. 
 
 Ri;le 13. Setting of Traj)s.—A stiaight line shall be drawn from the score, 
 at eighteen yards in the rear, to trap No. 3, and extended to a point not further 
 than seven yards in front of same. Traps Nos. 1 and .'i shall be set to throw the 
 birds across this line, the crossing point being anywheie within theseven^yartls 
 point in front of trap 3. Trap No. 2 shall throw in a direction left half quarter- 
 ing from the score; trap No. 4 shall throw in a direction right half quartering 
 upon the score; and trap No. 3 shall throw straight-away. 
 
 If. after such setting of the traps, the birds, for any reason, take other 
 directions, they shall be considered fair birds. 
 
 Rule 14. Pulling of Traps.— When the shooter calls "Pull" the trap shall 
 be instantly sprung, or the bird may be refused. If pulled without notice, or 
 more than one bird loosed, the shot may be refused; but. if taken it is to be 
 scored. If the shooter fails to shoot when the trap is properly pulled, it must 
 be scored a lost bird. 
 
 Rule i',. Positionof Puller. -The trap-puller shall stand from four to six 
 feet behind the shooter, and shall use his own discretion in regard to which 
 trap shall be sprung for each shooter, but he shall pull equally and regularly 
 for all shooters. 
 
 Rule 1G. Screens, Nettino, Trencft.— No screens or netting shall be used; 
 "l)ack stojjs" may be provided for trappers not to exceed ten yards from the 
 end traps, and not to exceed three feet in height. 
 
 But, when the grounds permit, a trench may be dug to shield the trapper, 
 without obstructing the view of the traps from the shooter. 
 
 Rui-E 17. Douhle Birds, Trap Settimj. -Doubles shall be thrown from 
 ti'aps Nos. 2 and 3. 
 
AMERICAN nULES. "^^ 
 
 Trap No. 3 shall be set at about fifteen degrees elevation ; trap No. 2 at 
 about twenty degrees elevation, in double bird sbooting; and trap No. 4 when 
 used for shooting oft ties in doubles, shall be set at about the latter elevation. 
 
 KuLE 18. Ties and Traps for Ties.— Ties on single birds shall be thrown 
 from traps Nos. 1, 2, and 5. 
 
 Ties on double birds from traps Nos. 3 and 4. 
 
 ART. IV.— THE GUN. 
 
 Rule 19. Position of Gun.— The gun shall be held below the ami-pit, until 
 tlie shooter calls "Pull;" otherwise, if challenged, the shot shall be declared a 
 "lost" bird, whether hit or missed. 
 
 Rule 20. Loading of Gun.— Charge of powder unlimited; charge of shot 
 not to exceed m oz., Dixon's standard measure. No. 1106 "dipped" measure. 
 Any shooter using a larger quantity of shot shall forfeit all entrance money 
 and rights in the match, and shall be subject to further action by the manage- 
 ment, as provided in the Constitution and By-Laws. 
 
 Rule 21 . Handicap of G4m.— No guns larger than lo bore shall be allowed. 
 Guns of 12 gauge weighing 8 pounds or under, shall be allowed two yards. 
 Guns of smaller calibre than 12 gauge shall be shot at the same rise as the 
 latter. 
 
 ART. v.— THET INANIMATE TARGET OR CLAY PIGEON. 
 
 Rule 22. Broken Birds.— No clay pigeon shall be retrieved to be ex- 
 amined for shot marks. A clay pigeon, to be scored broken, must be broken 
 so as to be plainly seen in the air; that is a piece must be clearly and percep- 
 tibly broken from it in the air by the shot, before it touches the ground. 
 
 Rule 23. Lost Birds.— A. All clay pigeons not broken in the air as above 
 defined, and not ruled as "no birds," shall be scored lost. 
 
 B. When shooting at single clay pigeons, one barrel only shall be loaded ; 
 should more than one barrel be loaded, the shot shall be scored lost. 
 
 Rule 24. Imperfect or ''No Birds."— If a clay pigeon be broken by the 
 trap, it shall be optional with the shooter to accept it; if he accepts, the result 
 shall be scored. 
 
 Rule 25. Alloioing Another Bird.— The sliooter shall be allowed another 
 clay pigeon under either of the following contingencies:— 
 
 A. In single bird shooting, if two or more are sprung instead of one. 
 
 B. If the pigeon is sprung before or at any noticeable interval after the 
 shooter calls "Pull." 
 
 C. If the pigeon does not fly twenty-eight yards from its trap, passmg over 
 a line (imaginarv), at a distance of ten yards from the traps, and four feet high 
 at the latter distance. The sviirit of this rule is to this effect: that the bird 
 shall attain an elevation of not less than four feet within ten yards from the 
 
 i>. If the shooter's gun, being properly loaded and cocked, does not go off 
 through any cause whatever, except through the fault of the shooter. 
 
 E. If a pigeon is thrown so that to shoot in proper time it would endanger 
 life or property. , 
 
 But if the shooter, in either of the foregoing contingencies, fires at the 
 pigeon, he is to be deemed as-accepting it, and the shot must be scored accord- 
 ing to its results. ' • ~ , , 
 
 Rule 26. Double Birds.— A. In case one be a fair bird and the other an 
 imperfect or no bird, the shooter shall shoot at a new pair; both birds must be 
 sprung at once, otherwise they shall be " no birds." 
 
 B. If a shooter fires t)oth barrels at one bird in succession, they shall be 
 scored lost. 
 
 C. In double bird shooting, in case of misfire of either barrel, through no 
 fault of the shooter, he shall shoot at another pair. 
 
 ART. VI.— RISES AND TIES. 
 
 Rule 27. The Rise.— The rise, in championship matches and sweepstakes, 
 where no handicap has been recorded, when ten bore guns are used^ sliall l>e 
 
.~)'3 AMERICA.N RULES. 
 
 eighteen yards in single, and fifteen yards for double clay pigeon snooting. 
 When ties are shot off, the rise shall be incrt;ased two yards until the limit of 
 the handicap is reached. See handicap rules. 
 
 Rule 28. 'r'.«s.-Ties shall be shot at singles at three birds each, and at 
 doubles at one pair. 
 
 Ties in championship matches shall be shot at five singles (thrown from 
 live traps) and two doubles. 
 
 RuLK 29. Time of Shooting Ties.— All ties shall be shot off on the same 
 grounds, immediately after the matcli. if thev can be concluded before sunset. 
 If they cannot, they shall be concluded on the following day, unless otherwise 
 directed by the judges. This, however, shall not prevent the ties from divifling 
 the pnzes by agreement. Should one refuse then the tie must be shot off. 
 Any one of the persons tieing, being absent thirty minutes after the time agreed 
 upon to shoot them off, without permission of the judges, shall forfeit his right 
 to shoot in the tie. .1.0 
 
 Rule 30. Extreme Limit Tie.— When a shooter is to shoot off a tie, who 
 has previously thereto been handicapped to the extreme limit, he and his 
 opponents shall shoot in the tie at the same distance they each occupied when 
 It occurred. 
 
 ART. VII.— TEAM SHOOTING. 
 
 , Rule 31. What Cmistitutes a Cluh.—The only club which will be recog- 
 nized by the Association for the purpose of contests, is a club which has been 
 duly organized, with the u§ual officers, and a hona-fid^ membership of perma- 
 nent standing, which maintains its organization by stated meetings and prac- 
 tical work. No clubs can be extemporized and admitted solely for the purpose 
 of shooting in contests. 
 
 Rule 32. Aye of Clubs and 3few6crs.— Clubs entering teams must be 
 known as regularly organized gun clubs at least one month previous to the 
 tournament; members of entered teams must be in good standing the same 
 leifigth of time, and be endorsed by the President and Secretary of their re- 
 spective clubs. Shooters belonging to two or more clubs must shoot with their 
 home clubs, and can shoot with one team only. 
 
 Rule 33. Order of Shooting.— The teams, in team shoots, will be called to 
 the '-score" in the order designated by the Executive Committee; said order 
 will be determined by the dates of original entry, teams being allowed to choose 
 accordingly; the members of the team will be called to the "score" in the 
 order designated by their respective captains, each member shooting at five 
 single birds in succession, and then (when all the teams have finished shooting 
 at single birds) the members will, in a similar manner, finish their scores at 
 the double birds. 
 
 Rule 34. What Constitutes a Team.— Jn team championship. matches, 
 teams of three to five must be residents of the same State, and in twin team 
 championship matches, both must be residents of the same county or parish. 
 Any State or county can enter as many teams as they see fit. In team or club 
 match, other than championships, there shall be no restrictions as to resi- 
 dence of members excepting as stated in the program. 
 
 Rule 35. No Division of First Championship Prize.— In all championship 
 matches, whether teams or individuals, there shall be no division of prizes or 
 purses among the first scorers or winners of first championship prizes, money 
 or badges, under penalty of expulsion from the Association. 
 
 ART. VIIT. -PURSES. 
 
 Rule 36. Division of Purses.— In sweepstake matches, if the number of 
 entries is less than twelve, the net purses shall be divided in two sums, viz., 
 sixty per c^nt and forty per cent: and if the number of entries is over twelve 
 and less than forty, the net purses shall be divided into three sums, viz., fifty 
 per cent, thirty per cent, and twenty per cent. If the number exceeds forty, 
 the n'et purses snail be divided into four sums, viz., forty per cent, thirty per 
 cent, twenty per cent and ten per cent. 
 
 Rule 37. Association Percentage.— In all tournaments conducted by the 
 Association, five per cent shall be first deducted from all purses for the 
 
AMEUrCAN KULES. 58) 
 
 benefit of the Association; clubs shall dediu-t two per cent, in club matches, 
 should the club so elect. 
 
 KULE 38. Paying for Birds.— The price of birds shall be extra, excepting 
 in miss-and-out matches, where it shall l)e deducted from the entrance purse. 
 
 Rule 39. Guaranteed Purse— Where a purse is guaranteed by the Asso- ' 
 ciation, if the entrance fees collectively exceed the guaranteed purse, all such 
 excess shall accrue to the guarantors, viz., the Association;. if less, then the 
 Association shall supply the deficiency. Purses mentioned in the program are 
 not guaranteed, unless especially so stated. 
 
 >v ,' >■■.., ^ ART. IX.— HANDICAPS. 
 
 Rule 40. No Handicaps for Championships.— In championsiiip contests 
 there shall be no handicap, except for guns; nor shall winners of such con- 
 tests in team championships be handicapped on account of such winning. 
 
 Rule '41.— Permanent Handicap.— Tlieve shall be a Permanent Handicap 
 for each shooter in all other than in championship matches. This handicap 
 shall be made by the Executive Committee, who, immediately after each inter- 
 national or interstate tournament, shall classify every participant therein, and 
 assign to him a handicap which may range from fifteen up to, but not exceed, 
 twenty yards, for singles, and three yards less for doubles. Such handicap 
 shall attach to such shooter thereafter (until altered) in every tournament and 
 match in which he shall engage, when he is siiooting in any Association sweep- 
 stakes; and he must daily begin his shooting at this handicap. 
 
 Rule 42. Temporary Handicap.— In addition to the permanent handicap 
 there shall be a temporary daily handicap, as fohows: If a shooter, having 
 already a Permanent Handicap, shall become a winner in a daily .shoot, he 
 shall be handicapped because of such winning, in accordance with tlic follow- 
 ing rule: AUwHiners or dividers of first money shall be handicapped two 
 yards; Mnners or (dividers) of second money shall be handicapped one yard; 
 maximum handicap, 22 yards. " That is to say, if by the scorer's card it appears 
 he is a winner or divider of first money, he shall be handicapped two yards, 
 and if second money, one yard. Winners of third money are not to be 
 handicapped for such winning. Upon presenting the scorer's card, which 
 entitles the shooter to payment of his winnings, the e^xecutive officer shall, 
 when paying, mark upon the shooter's handicap ccird the temporary handicap 
 thus maaej which shall govern for the remainder of that Klay. Provided, how- 
 ever, that in no event shall the maximum of the permanent and temporary 
 handicap combined exceed 22 yards for "singles,'^ and three yards less for 
 •'doubles." If the shooter still continues to win at his maximum handicap, the 
 other shooters shall step in towards the traps, the same distance that the suc- 
 cessful shooter would have otherwise been placed back. 
 
 Rule 43. New Member's' Handicap.— New members, whose shooting is 
 unknown, shall be handicapped for the first time indicated in Rules 21 and 27, 
 though the Chief Executive Officer shall be authorized to change same, at any 
 time during the tournament, after his present match. 
 
 Rule 44. Non-Winners' Match Handicap.— Winners in sweepstake 
 matches which are open only to non-winners in previous program matches, 
 shall not be handicapped on account of said winnings in the future program 
 matches of the same tournament, but said winners shall be handicapped in all 
 extra matches, whether shot at the main five traps, or at any extra traps 
 which may be in use on the grounds. 
 
 Rule 45. Extra Match Handicap.— All matches duly announced in the 
 program are termed "Program Matches;" all others '-Extra Matches," 
 whether shot at the main five traps, or at any other traps in use on the 
 grounds. Winners in all "Extra Matches" shall be handicapped according to 
 the above rules in all subsequent extra matches only. 
 
 ART. X.— CARDS. 
 
 Rule 46. Handicap Cards.— The Secretary of the Association shall issue 
 to each member a Handicap Card, which shall bear on its face the name of the 
 shooter, the date Qf, issue,. and his permanent handicap, and blanks for tem- 
 porary handicap records and payment of annual dues. The Secretary shall 
 
54 
 
 AMERICAN RtJLES, 
 
 Tceep a record of all such cards issued. In the absence of the Secretary, the 
 Chief Executive Officer of the Association on the crounds of a slioot, sliall 
 issue sucli card to any member wlio has not obtained one, and malie a dupli- 
 cate tliereof, to be forwarded to the Secretary. 
 
 If the permanent handicap is changed by the Executive Committee, the 
 old card shall be surrendered at the time of issuing the new one. 
 
 A permanent handicap sliall not be changed during a shooting contest. 
 
 When a shooter is called to the score, he shall show his Handicap Card 
 to the scorer (who willraarlv the handicap on the score book), and also to the 
 referee. 
 
 Shooters must provide tliemselves with Handicap Cards before going to the 
 
 The Chief Executive Officer shall countersign all Handicap Cards issued by 
 tl)e Secretary. At the beginning of a tournament, shooters shall present their 
 cards to the Executive Omcer to be countersigned. , 
 
 KULE 47. Pigeon Cards.— The Secretary shall provide the Chief Executive 
 Officer with "Pigeon Cards," which for hve pigeons, shall bear the numbers 
 from one to twenty, inclusive, and shall be sold by the Executive Officer for $5; 
 and vvhicli. for clay pigeons or other artificial targets, shall be numbered from 
 one to thirty-three inclusive, and shall be sold for $1.50. The same shall bear 
 tlie signature of the Secretary and the Chief Executive Officer. The scorer 
 will punch these before the pigeons are used. All shooters must provide them- 
 selves witli their respective cards before going to the ocore, and unused por- 
 tions thereof will be redeemed at the rate at wnich they were issued. 
 
 Kuij; 48. Winners' Cards.— At the conclusion of each match, the scorer 
 shall announce the winners, and shall fill out a card containing date, place and 
 number of the match, name of the winner, whether 1st 2d, or 3d, etc., number 
 of entries, amount of entrance fee, percentage to bed ducted, and sign it as 
 scorer. The winner shall present it to the Executive Officer, who, after adding 
 the Temporary Handicap to his record card, shall thereupon pay the amount 
 stated, and make a record of it in his minute book. A ly complaint as to the 
 amount stated must be made before receiving payme at. These cards must 
 subsequently be transmitted by the Executive Omcer to the Secretary, 
 
 ART. XI.— PROHIBITION.S AND FINES 
 
 Rule 49. ProMMftwis.—None but members shall shoot in any contest, 
 unless otherwise announced in the special rules by the Executive Committee. 
 
 Rule 50. Wire Cartridges Pronibited.—Vfhe cartridges and concentra- 
 tors are, on the ground of safety, strictly prohibited; dlso the admixture of 
 dust, grease, oil, or any other substance to the shot. 
 
 Rule 51. Muzzle-Loaders Prohibited.— On the ground of safety, and for 
 the general convenience of the shooters, muzzle loaders are prohibited. 
 
 Rule 52. Fines.— A fine of one dollar, to be added to the purses, shall be 
 rigidly exacted for any of the following acts of negligence:— 
 
 A. Pointing a gun at any one under any circumstances. 
 
 B. Firing off a gun, except when the shooter has been called to shoot, and 
 is at the score. 
 
 C. Closing a gun with cartridge in before arriving at the score, or point- 
 ing toward the shooter or spectators when in the act of closing it. 
 
 D. Quitting the score without extracting a loaded cartridge unfired. 
 
 E. Having a loaded gun anywhere on the ground, except when at the 
 score. 
 
 Rule 53. Fines for Boisterous Wrangling.— Shoukl any contestant attempt 
 to take any undue advantage of a shooter when at the score, in order to cause 
 him to lose a bird, or should any contestant create or participate in any dis- 
 turbance, or loud, boisterous wrangling during a shoot, .he shall l^e fined not 
 less than $5, or expelled from the Association, in the manner provided for In 
 the Constitution and By-Laws. 
 
 Rule 54. Bribery— Any shooter convicted of an attempt to Ijaibe, or in 
 any manner Influence the trappers, judges, scorers, referee or pullers, shall be 
 barred from all further contests during the tournament, and. shall be expelled 
 from the Association. 
 
AMERICAN nULBS. 55 
 
 ART. XII.— EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 
 
 Rule 55. Changing Stveepstakes.—ThTowgh the Chief Executive Officer 
 the Executive Committee reserve the right to add to, change or omit, any 
 sweepstalies or matches. 
 
 Rule 56. Barring Professiimal Shook vs.— They reserve the right to bar 
 out, upon request of any two amateur shooters in the, matcli, anypubUcly 
 known professional shooter, and also any sliooler who is well known to them 
 to be ungentlemanly or disputatious. • 
 
 Rule 57. Recognize no Bets.— They will not recognize bets, nor decide any 
 matters arising from them. Neither shall judges or referees do so. 
 
 Rule 58. Changing Rules.— Hules announced to govern tournament shall 
 not be changed within thirty days of the date of the tournament ; but while a 
 tournament is progressing, rules may- be made to govern future tournaments. 
 
 RULE 59. Duties of Chief Exeoutive Officer.— A\\ entrance moneys shall be 
 held by the Chief Executive Oflicer representing the Association on the 
 grounds. He shall divide the purses, retaining tne percentages. .He shall 
 mark with ink on the handicap card of the winners the date and the temporary 
 handicap for the day, and shall make a record thereof in his daily minute 
 book. 
 
 He shall take charge of the score books every night during the tournament. 
 
 He shall have authority to employ such subordinates as he may require. 
 
 He shall countersign the handicap cards. He shall have authority to 
 change the permanent handicap cards of unknown members. 
 
 He shall sell the "Pigeon Cards" and redeem any unused parts thereof. 
 
 ART. XIII.— MATCHES PER TELEGRAPH. 
 
 •Rule 60. Teams or individuals may arrange matches, or the Association 
 may arrange same, to be shot by each at their own respective locahties, with- 
 out coming together, upon complying with the following conditions, viz. :— 
 
 The entrance fee snail be sent by mail, to the Secretary of the Association, 
 to reach him before the shooting begins. If the entrance fee is not sent by 
 mail, it maybe sent by telegraph one hour before the shooting begins. Any 
 person hot a member, who desires to enter, may send by mail or telegraph 
 one hour before the shooting begins, an initiation or member's fee of $5, and 
 tlip Pntmnop fpp liPSidGS 
 
 All the rules heretofore stated shall apply equally to such matches. Mem-" 
 bers shall shoot -at their permanent handicaps. Those who have no handicap 
 record, shall shoot at the usual distance, eighteen yards, etc. The result of 
 each score must be telegraphed as the same is made, to the Secretary of the 
 Association. The scores must also be mailed to him the same day, and their 
 accuracy certified to by the President and Secretary of the local club, or by 
 two disinterested and responsible witnesses who saw the shooting, and who 
 are members of the Association. 
 
 Ties shall be shot off, under these rules, upon the twentieth week day 
 
 The Executive Committee of the Association will duly announce the 
 result, and decide upon any controverted points. The committee shall have 
 full power to make inquiry as to the accuracy of the scores as reported, and to 
 award the money according as the facts may appear. 
 
 ART. XIV.— THE LIVE PIGEON. 
 
 The following rules, (in addition to and modification of the preceding 
 rules), apply to live pigeon matches only:— 
 
 Rule 61. The Traps, Rise, Boundary, Challenged Birds.— All live birds 
 shall be shot from the ground traps, which shall be set five yardg apart. Rise 
 twenty-five yards. Use of one barrel only. Boundary unlimited. In case of 
 challenged bird the shooter allowed three minutes to gather it. 
 
 Rule 62. Birds on the Win^.—ln double bird shooting, the bird shall be on 
 the wing when shot at. A bird shot on the ground shall be scored lo5t. 
 Double birds to be shot at twenty-one yards rise, boundary unlimited; five 
 minutes allowed to gather birds if challenged. 
 
56 nKvrsKi) ciamk law>. 
 
 UliLK Go. Tics.— On single birds, twenty-ftve yards rise; doubles at 
 twenty-one yards rise. 
 
 Rule 64. Lost Birds, No Bird.—U a bird is sliot at, by any person other 
 .thantlie shooter at the score, tlie referee shall decide whether it shall, bt 
 scored lost, or whether he will allow another bird. When traps are sprung, 
 should a bird refuse to fly after a reasonable time, the shooter may call "no 
 bird." 
 . Kui.E G5. GatUcrvnfi Birds.— It Sihall be optional with the shooter to 
 
 gather his own birds or apj)oint a person to do so for him. In all cases the 
 U'ds must be {ratiiered by liand, withmit any-forcible means, within three 
 minutes from the time it alights, or it shall be scored a lost bird. All live birds 
 must show some shot marks if challenged. 
 
 
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