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Virginia : Shooting of quails allowed svest of the Biue Ridge October 15 to Jan- 
uary 1, except in Rockbridge County, where it isallowed from October 15 to Janu- 
ary 15; elsewhere October 15 to January 15. 
Texas: Shooting of quails allowed from October 1 to April 1. 
Georgia: Shooting of quails allowed from October 15 to April 1. 
Wisconsin: Shooting of quails allowed from September 1 to December1l. Trap- 
ping prohibited. 
Michigan: Shooting of quails allowed from November 1 to January 1. No 
trapping or snaring allowed for market. 
Pennsylvania : Shooting of quails allowed from October 15 to January 1. 
Tennessee: Shooting of quails allowed from October 1 to April 1 in Ruther- 
ford, Shelby, Tipton, and Fayette Counties ; September 1 to February 1 in Robert- 
son, Davidson, Lincoln, and Maury Counties; September 15 to March 1 in Mont- 
gomery and Cheatham Counties. 
Missouri: Shooting of quails allowed from October 15 to February 1. Trapping 
prohibited except by owner of premises. 
Delaware: Shooting of quails alowed from November 15 to January 1. 
North Carolina: Shooting of guaiis allowed from October 15 to April 1, except 
in counties of Clay, Cherokee, Graham, Henderson, Jackson, Macon, Transylvania, 
Tyrrell, Johnston, Jones, Ware, Onslow, Carteret, and Columbus, in which they 
are not protected; in Currituck County, December 1 to April 1. 
Towa: Shooting of quails allowed from October 1 to January 1; no more than 
twenty-five quails to be killed in any one day by any one person. 
Dakota: Quaiis protected absolutely to 1890. 
Illinois: Shooting of quails allowed from November 1 to January 1. Snaring 
and trapping forbidden. 
Ohio : Shooting of quaiis allowed from November 10 to January 1. Snaring and 
trapping forbidden. in Fulton County quails protected to November 1, 1890. 
Nebraska : Shooting of quails allowed from Gctober 1to January 1. Snaring and 
trapping forbidden. 
Indiana : Shooting of quails allowed from October 15 to December 20. 
Minnesota : Shooting of quaiis allowed from September 1 to December 1. Trap- 
ping prohibited. 
District of Columbia : Shooting of quails allowed from November 1 to February 
1. Trapping prohibited. 
South Carolina: Shooting of quails allowed from October 1 to March 15. 
Montana : Shooting of quails allowed from August 15 to November 15. 
Arkansas: Shooting of quails alowed from October 1 to March 1. 
Colorado: Quaiis protected at all times. 
West Virginia : Shocting of quails alowed from October 15 to January i. Snar- 
ing prohibited. 
centucky : Shooting of quails allowed from October 15 to February 1. 
Idaho: Quails protected until September 1, 1887. (Present status of law un- 
kown.) 
New Mexico: Shooting of quails allowed from September 1 to May 1. 
Kansas : Shooting of quails allowed from November 1 to January 1. 
This compilation is drawn up in the main from an extended abstract 
of the State game laws, published in the American Field for August 
20, 1887, Vol. XXVIII, No. 8. 
DisEAsES.—The Chinch Bug has long been known to be subject toa 
so-called bacterial disease, which occasionally killsit off. Dr. Shimer, 
in his long article in the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural 
Sciences of Philadelphia, gives the following account of his observa- 
tions upon this disease in 1865 (Proceedings of the Academy of 
Natural Sciences of Philadelphia for 1867): 
July 16.—A farmer 4 miles from here informed me that a black coleopterous in- 
sect was destroying the Chinch-bugs on his farm very rapidly; and although I found 
his supposition to be an error, yet I found many dying on the low creek-bottom land 
from the effects of some disease, while they are yet in the larve state—a remarkable 
and rare phenomenon for msects thus in sucha wholesale manner to be dying with- 
out attaining their maturity—and no insect enemy or other efficient cause to be ob- 
served capable of producing this important result. 
On the low ground the young Chinch-bugs are all dead from the disease above 
alluded to, and the same disease is spreading rapidly on the hills and high prairies, 
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