PROHIBITED METHODS OF HUNTING. 



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The restrictions against permitting dogs to run at large are such as 

 relate to allowing them to roam in localities where the}' may disturb 

 game. In Idaho, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont the posses- 

 sion of deerhounds within the State is made unlawful, and New York 

 prohibits their possession in Adirondack Park. The use of ferrets 

 and weasels in hunting rabbits and hares is interdicted in a few States. 



CONDITIONS. 



Trapping, snaring, and netting are prohibited by many States, which 

 recognize that these methods cause rapid extermination of game. 

 Commission houses sometimes encourage the trapping of quail, as the 

 game is in better condition for sale when trapped than when shot; but 

 this is very properly discountenanced, and some States make it an 

 offense to offer for sale birds which show no evidence of having been 

 taken otherwise than by trapping. Several States specifically pro- 

 hibit the use of grain or other food that has been soaked in opium or 

 other narcotics, or in poison, for the purpose of stupefying or killing 

 birds. Night shooting is treated under two heads — big game and water 

 fowl. In the different laws night is variously defined, but it usualh^ is 

 designated as from one hour after sunset to one hour before sunrise. 

 Killing in the snow includes what is known as ' crusting-' big game, or 

 shooting it when it is 'yarded,' and tracking and shooting rabbits and 

 upland birds when the gTound is snow covered. The various restric- 

 tions, both in regard to outfits and concerning conditions of hunting, 

 are shown in the following table: 



Prohibited methods of hunting. 



[Crosses ( x ) indicate simple proliibitions; figures indicate qualified prohibitions, as explained in the 



corresponding footnotes.] 













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