Hunting in Many Lands 



States. The laws of New York may prohibit 

 the sale of quail, ruffed grouse and prairie 

 fowl, and the societies may enforce them in 

 New York city, and day by day see the mon- 

 strous wrong of carloads of prairie fowl and 

 other valuable game brought into Jersey City, 

 and sold to the population of that town and to 

 the ocean vessels sailing from its docks. Our 

 Western prairies are denuded of their birds, 

 that are frozen in the close season and are 

 afterward shipped to Europe, and sold in the 

 markets there at a price often less than they 

 would bring in New York city. 



Ao-ain, laws on these subjects should be as 

 simple as possible, including in the one open 

 and close season as many kinds of game as 

 possible, and creating a general public under- 

 standing that the shooting season opens at a 

 fixed date, say October ist, and that no shoot- 

 ing or possession of game is to be allowed 

 prior to that date, and that the close season 

 for all game should commence on another cer- 

 tain date, say February ist. 



Lastly, a defective law, that is permanent 

 and uniform throughout the State, is more 

 effective than a better and more detailed law 

 varying in different counties and towns, and 



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