RESTRICTIONS AS TO PURPOSES FOR WHICH GAME MAY BE 



KILLED. 



Not only are limits set to the time for killing^ game and the methods 

 of hunting, but in many instances the killing or possession of game for 

 certain purposes is prohibited. Restrictions of this kind may be con 

 veniently considered under the four heads 'Market hunting,' 'Killing 

 for hides,' 'Possession and storage,' and 'Sale.' 



MARKET HUNTING. 



Traffic in game, especiall}^ since the advent of railroads in the West 

 and the introduction of modern methods of refrigeration, has grown 

 to large proportions, and in several instances threatens with extermi- 

 nation some of the most valuable game in the United States. The 

 amount killed for sport or for food, however large it may be, is small in 

 comparison with that killed for market. With a view to preventing 

 extermination of their game, some States have prohibited killing for 

 sale, and others the sale of all game taken within the State or pro- 

 tected by its laws. Ohio prohibits killing for sale of squirrel, quail, 

 ruffed grouse or pheasant, prairie chicken, wild turkey, Mongolian, 

 English or ring-neck pheasant, and woodcock; Pennsylvania, deer, 

 elk, quail, partridge, grouse, pheasant, wild turkey, and woodcock; 

 Indiana, quail, ruffed grouse, and pinnated grouse; Iowa, these and 

 woodcock; Tennessee, deer, quail or. partridge; Wyoming, big game. 

 The Province of Ontario prohibits the employment of any one to kill 

 game for sale; and Nebraska and the Indian Territory the slaughter of 

 game for any purpose except food. In many States that do not abso- 

 lutely prohibit killing for sale, such killing is greatly restricted by 

 laws requiring hunters to secure licenses, and limiting the number 

 that may be killed (see pp. 44-50). Oregon requires nonresident 

 market hunters to obtain a special license, the fee for which is |10. 

 Georgia has a general law forbidding killing for sale, except under 

 license, but it is not operative in any county until recommended by 

 the grand jury of that county. 



KILLING FOR HIDES. 



Killing for hides may be regarded as a special phase of market 

 hunting and one which has proved extremely destructive to big 

 game in certain States of the West. Of late years legislation ha^ 



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