CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME. 



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Many of the best sportsmen who are in 

 favor of reasonable protection, with a 

 view to preserving this valuable little 

 game hircl and preventing its extermina- 

 tion, are not in favor of commencing dove 

 shooting in September, for the reason that 

 doves are not through with their nesting 

 season at th:it time of the year. In some 

 parts of this state doves nest all through 

 July and August ; their eggs are fre- 

 quently found in September, and occa- 

 sionally as late a.s the middle of Octo- 

 ber.— H. P. Attwater. 



PENALTIES FOR VIOLATION OF 

 OREGON GAME LAWS. 



The following interesting penalties are 

 imposed upon the violators of game laws 

 in Oregon : 



"Any person killing any mountain 

 sheep, mountain goat, antelope, elk, or 

 moose, may be fined from .$200 to $1,000 

 and imprisoned not less than sixty days 

 nor more than six months." 



"Besides fines, any one violating laws 

 shall be subject to a civil liability 

 ranging from $2 for each game bird 

 to $300 for elk and mountain sheep ; 

 shall forfeit all guns, dogs, boats, traps, 

 fishing apparatus and implements used 

 in violation of laws, and shall forfeit 

 his hunting license for the iialance of 

 the calendar year in which the offense 

 was committed." 



NEVADA PROHIBITS DEER HUNTING 

 WITH AID OF DOGS. 



Although both California and Oregon 

 place certain restrictions upon hunting of 

 deer with dogs, a provision of the Ne- 

 vada law states : 



"Sec. 40. It shall be unlawful for 

 any person or pei'sons, firm, company, 

 corporation, or association, at any time 

 of the year to hunt, chase, pursue, 

 catch, or kill, any deer, antelope, cari- 

 bou, elk, mountain sheep, or mountain 

 goat, with or by the use or aid of any 

 hound or hounds." 



Another interesting provision of the 

 Nevada law is that which protects the 

 American eagle. The law states : 



"Sec. 56. It shall be unlawful for 

 any person or persons, firm, company, 

 corporation or association to kill, de- 

 stroy, Avound, trap, injure, keep in cap- 

 tivity, or in any other manner to catch 

 or capture, or to pursue with such in- 

 tent the bird known as the American 

 eagle, or to take, injure or destroy the 

 nest or eggs of said before-mentioned 

 bird." 



VALUE OF WILD LIFE ENORMOUS. 



Reduced to statistics the annual value 

 of wild life assets of the state of Minne- 

 sota, after careful investigation and in- 

 quiry, are estimated as follows : 



Food value of game and fish__ $2,000,000 



Furs, skins and pelts 1,300,000 



Value of tourist trade 1,500,000 



Value of commerce depending 



upon game and fish 3,000,000 



Value to agriculture of insec- 

 tivorous birds 2,500,000 



Total $10,300,000 



Every effort has been made to make 



this estimate conservative, and doubtless 



some of the items should be much larger. 



— Fins, Feathers and Fur, December, 



1916. 



MINNESOTA COMMISSION REMODELS 

 FISH AND GAME LAWS. 

 A commission created by the last Min- 

 nesota legislature is remodefing the fish 

 and game laws of that state. The work 

 of the commission will be to make a 

 thorough study of the provisions of the 

 laws governing fish and game and to re- 

 vise and simplify them, striking out those 

 laws which are ambiguous and conflicting. 



A SUCCESSFUL SPARROW CAMPAIGN. 

 The Davenport Bird Club of Daven- 

 port, Iowa, has almost wiped out English 

 sparrows in that city. Poisoned grain 

 in the form of cracked corn and wheat 

 screenings coated with sti-ychnine-poi- 

 soned starch was used. After two 

 months a careful count disclosed a reduc- 

 tion of 95% in the sparrows feeding in 

 the streets. The club estimates that 

 about 150,000 sparrows were destroyed 

 during the winter. As far as is known 

 only two or three native birds were 

 poisoned. — Current Items of Interest, 

 October 26, 1017. 



NEW YORK HAS CONSERVATION 

 SCHOOL. 



The New York legislature has appro- 

 priated $15,000 for a game farm to be 

 conducted as a part of the New York 

 State College of Agriculture at Ithaca, 

 New York. The administration of the 

 farm is in the hands of the trustees of 

 Cornell University, who will cooperate 

 with the New York Conservation Com- 

 mission. Instruction will be along edu- 

 cational and experimental lines. 



