﻿6 BULLETIN 22, U. S. DEPARTMENT OP AGBICULTURE. 



tivity iii Minnesota, New Jersey, and Oregon, but Maine repealed the 

 provision permitting sale of game raised in private preserves. 



The sale of all protected game was prohibited in Nevada, Oregon, 

 and Wyoming, while New Jersey enacted provisions similar to those 

 of the New York law prohibiting the sale of all game belonging to a 

 family any species or subspecies of which is native to and protected 

 by the State law. 



Other interesting sale provisions are the continued suspension of 

 sale of deer in southeastern Alaska until August 15, 1914, and the 

 prohibition in Pennsylvania of the sale of quail and ruffed grouse 

 wherever taken. 



Michigan permitted transportation and sale of rabbits lawfully 

 killed and the sale and export of deerskins or green or mounted buck 

 deer heads under permit; while Vermont permitted deer to be sold 

 during the open season and for a "reasonable time thereafter" and 

 rabbits during the open season. 



The legislation of the year shows a decided tendency to place more 

 stringent restrictions on the export of native game. Wyoming pro- 

 hibited the export of all protected game; Maine reduced the export 

 limit of partridges under a resident license tag from 6 to 5; Ohio 

 reduced the export limit under a nonresident license from 50 to 25 

 birds and animals, while Maine increased the export limit on ducks 

 under nonresident license from 10 to 15, and permitted a nonresident 

 to export one pair of game birds a month under a 50-cent tag; Michi- 

 gan restored the provision permitting a nonresident to export one 

 deer under permit and license, and New York required nonresidents 

 to obtain permits to export deer. 



BAG LIMITS. 



The changes in bag limits tend as usual toward further restrictions. 

 Some novel features in weekly limits were enacted in the Northwest, 

 where in an effort to forestall large week-end bags of birds, Washington 

 provided that the week should end at midnight Wednesday night, 

 and Oregon provided limits for seven consecutive days. 



In the case of big game, Washington reduced the limit on sheep 

 and goats from two to one each, and Wyoming now permits only one 

 female elk under each ordinary resident license. In the case of deer, 

 Florida and Oregon reduced the limits from five to three; Montana 

 provided that the limit of three deer shall not include more than one 

 doe; Wyoming reduced the number of deer from two to one, and 

 Maine from two to one in Androscoggin County. 



With these restrictions, deer hunting, as shown in the accompanying 

 map, is now permitted in 36 States, 12 of which limit the hunter 

 to one deer a season, and 10 to two. In only about a quarter of the 



