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 



