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boats, forbidden. Hounding deer prohibited until June, 1892, Trouit 

 ' and land-locked salmon, January 1 to September 1. Jack salmon or 

 white salmon, June 15 to April 1. Nets, weirs, traps, obstructions, poi- 

 sons, drugs, explosives and trespass, prohibited. 



WISCONSIN.— Woodcocks, quails (except in Walworth, Rock, Jeffer- 

 son, Waukesha, Milwaukee, and Racine counties, where quails, their 

 nests and eggs are protected until September 1, 1894), partridges, 

 pheasants or ruffed grouse, prairie chickens, sharp-tailed grouse, or 

 grouse of any "other variety, snipes plovers, mallard, teal or wood ducks, 

 September 1 tp December 1. Wild ducks of any other variety, wild geese 

 or brants of any variety, or any aquatic fowls whatever, Septemb^ 1 to 

 May 1. Hunting quails or any kind of grouse( partridge, pheasant, or prairie 

 chicken) with dogs prohibited until September 1, 1893. Squirrels, August 

 1 to December 1. Deer, November 1 to Decemb3r 1. Hounding or wor- 

 rying deer prohibited at all times. Snaring, netting, trapping, spring 

 guns, pivot guns, swivel guns, or any similar contrivance, or any firearm 

 other than a shoulder gun, prohibited. Sneak boats, scull boats, sail- 

 boats, steamboats or floating rafts or. boxes, or any similar device; or 

 any blinds in open water outside the natural growth of grass or rushes,- 

 prohibited. Otters, martens, and fishes, November I to May 1. The use 

 of dogs or ferrets, nets, traps, snares, clubs or sticks, in the taking or 

 killing of hares or rabbits, prohibited. Eggs and nests of wild pigeons, /■ 

 game and song and insectivorous birds protefeted. Pigeons protected 

 within three miles of theif roost. English sparrows not protected. Brook, 

 rainbow and mountain trout, April 15 to Septemb3r 1. Mackinaw (lake) 

 trout, January 15 to October]. Pike (wall-eyed), May 1 to March 1, 

 Black, green and Oswego bass, and mascaloiige. May 1 to February 1. 

 Hook and line only. Whi'.efish may be taken in inland waters with a dip- 

 net having a hoop not exceeding thirty inches in diameter fjt>m Novem- 

 ber 10 to December 15. With this exception the use of any gill, fyke, 

 pound, seine, dip or other net or snare is prohibited in the inland lakes, 

 rivers or streams of the State. Minnows, shiners, chubs, dace, suckers 

 or stickle-backs may be caught for bait in quantities not exceeding one- 

 half bushel in measure, at any one time, by means of a dip-net or seine, 

 except in streams or waters inhabited by or containing trout of any 

 variety. No such fish caught for bait allowed to be shipped out of th3 

 State. The use of dynamite or other explosives, and the pollution 

 waters with sawdust, fish offal, etc., prohibited. Spearing prohibited, 

 except in the wavers of the Mississippi River and sloughs, Lake Winne- 

 bago, Fox and Wolf rivers, and all waters emptying into Green Bay, where 

 sturgeons and pickerel only may be speared. Catching brook, rainbow 

 or mountain trout for sale, out of public waters, is prohibited. The sale 

 of any wall-eyed pike, black bass and frog bass, of less than one pound 

 each, prohibited. It is unlawful for any person to have in his possession 

 to exceed ten pounds of wall-eyed pike, black basa or frog bass weighing 



