GAME LAWS. 



obBtruotloas of any kind, explosives and poisonous drugs, 

 prohibited. Transportation or sale during close season 

 prohibited. Trespass and fishing in stocked waters forbidden. 

 Hook and line fishing only permitted, except that a net not exceeding 

 five yards in length may be used to catch minnows, and buffalo fish an* 

 suckers only may be speared between November 1 and March 1. 



KANSAS. — Prairie chickens or pinnated grouse, September 1 to Jmu- 

 ary 1. Quails, November 1 to January 1. Snaring and trapping pro- 

 hibited. Pursuing or hunting game of any kind on improved or occupied 

 land, without consent of owner, prohibited. Unlawful to catci black 

 bass, croppies, or wall-eyed pike except with rod, line and hojk. All 

 other fish. May 1 to July 1. 



KENTUCKY.- -Deer, males not • protected-, females September 1 to 

 March 1. Wildfowl, September 15 to May 1. Wild turkeys, September 1 

 to February 1 Woodcocks, June 1 to January 1. Quails and ruffed 

 grouse, October 1 to March 1 . Doves, August 1 to February 1. Song and 

 insectivorous birds, and nests of all birds, protected. Trapping, snaring 

 and netting forbidden. 



LOUISIANA.— Deer and ducks, October 1 to March 1, Turkeys, Octo- 

 ber 1 to April 15. Quails, partridges and pheasants, October 1 to April 1. 

 Insectivorous birds protected . Nests and eggs protected . In the parish 

 of Orleans, woodducks, July 1 to October 1. Deer, August 1 to March 1. 

 Rabbits and hares, May 1 to August 1. Quails, October 1 to April 1. Night 

 herons, July 1 to October 1. Marsh hens, May 1 to August 1. Song birds 

 protected, except grasses, larks, caille doves martins, papabottes and 

 swallows. This is the general State law The police juries of the differ- 

 ent parishes have the right to regulate the season in regard to deer, 

 ducks, turkeys, quails, partridges and pheasants, and in many parishes 

 they have done so. Where the police juries do not regulate the time for 

 their respective parishes, the general State law governs. Nets, seines, 

 traps, weirs, etc., poisons, drugs, pollution of streams, or any obstruc- 

 tion to the free passage of fish, prohibited. 



MAINE.— Moose, deer and caribou, October 1 to January 1. Deer, on 

 the Island of Mt. Desert, November 1 to January 1. The killing or hav- 

 ing in possession, except alive, of more than one inoo?e, two caribous 

 and three deer is prohibited. Hounding illegal. Any person may law- 

 fully kill any dog found hunting moose, deer or caribou. Minks, bea- 

 vers, sables, otters, fishers and muskrats, October 15 to May 1. Wood- 

 ducks, dusky ducks (black ducks), teals and gray ducks, September 1 to 

 April 1. Ruffed grouse (partridge). and woodcocks, September 1 to De- 

 cember 1. Quails, Oct<iber 1 to December 1. Pinnated grouse (prairie 

 chickens), September 1 to January 1. Plovers, August 1 to May 1. Trap- 

 ping, netting, snaring and killing any wild duck or game bird otherwise 

 than with a shoulder gun prohibited. Insectivorous tirds and tlieir 



