188 Fourth Annual Report of the 



season on November 10th, the season closing the same as formerly, 

 April 20th. 



Section 199 is changed, making the opening of the season on 

 skunk November 10th, to February 10th, it formerly being from 

 November 1st to January 31st. 



Section 200, relating to the propagation of skunks, is amended 

 to allow the possession of all species of fur-bearing animals to be 

 kept alive in captivity at all times for the purpose of propagation 

 and sale, provided a license so to do is first obtained from the 

 Commission. The license fee was formerly $10, and is reduced 

 by the amendment to $5. 



Section 201, giving protection to muskrats, changes the opening 

 of the season from November 1st to November 10th, closing April 

 20th. In addition to prohibiting the injuring or disturbing of 

 muskrat houses, it prohibits the taking of muskrats by shooting. 

 The prohibiting of the shooting of muskrats was done for the pur- 

 pose of giving a more high class fur, as a muskrat taken by shoot- 

 ing is only worth about twenty-five per cent, the value of one taken 

 in traps, even where the fur is of equal quality. 



Section 214, relative to the season on pheasants, changes the 

 open season from Thursdays in October to the last two Thursdays 

 in October and the first two Thursdays in November, and posses- 

 sion is allowed during the period of time between the 'first open 

 Thursday in October and the last open Thursday in November. 

 Only wild male pheasants may be taken. 



(Section 232 changes the opening of the season on trout from 

 the 15th of April to the first Saturday in April, closing August 

 31st the same as formerly. This makes the open season on trout 

 uniform throughout the State. 



Section 234 makes a very important change in the season on 

 lake trout. The season in 1913 on lake trout was from April 

 1st to December 31st. The amendment makes the season from 

 April 1st to September 30th. 



Section 235 makes no close season on lake trout and whitefish 

 which are taken in Lakes Erie and Ontario. Lake trout and white- 

 fish when so taken may be possessed, bought and sold, provided 

 that every person to whom a license is issued to take such fish 

 with a net or nets operated from power boats shall, when required 

 bv the Commission, furnish without charge to the Commission 



