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Rabbit Season. Ohio is the only State in this region which extended any 

 protection to cottontails previous to 1909- All States except Minnesota, Iowa, 

 and Missouri now limit the open season in some degree. (See Chart 5.) That 

 protection has begun in the most easterly State of the region, and is not yet in 

 effect in the three most westerly, is strong evidence of the increase in resistance 

 or productivity which occurs as one moves west or south from the Atlantic sea- 

 board. The reasons for this are unknown. 



