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THE GAME BREEDER 



tag system, although this department has 

 urged the Legislature to enact a law of 

 this kind, as I believe it is the only 

 way by which bag limits can be enforced. 

 We are not sure, however, whether the 

 Legislature will consider the proposition 

 at this session or not. 



"We are satisfied that game breeding 

 is a very interesting industry and we 

 expect, in the near future, to establish 

 a State farm by which experiments along 

 this line can be made. This department 

 has extended to any person who desired 

 to raise game in captivity, all the en- 

 couragement possibly under our existing 

 laws. Where game can be legally se- 

 cured from other States or during the 

 open season for taking same, we are is- 

 suing permits by which they can be held 

 in captivity during the closed season, 

 for the purpose of propagation and sci- 

 entific investigation." 



[We prefer a game breeders' law similar to 

 that of Vermont (and some other States) 

 which provides for a low priced breeders' 

 license and the regulation of the sales of game 

 as food, either by requiring invoices as the 

 Colorado law does or by requiring tags as 

 other State laws do. Game owned and pro- 

 duced by breeders should, of course, be sold 

 as food, and we doubt if the Indiana law will 

 result in much wild game being so sold. If 

 the law works badly it can be amended. The 

 experiment is interesting and creditable. — 

 Editor.! 



The Oklahoma Game Breeders' Law. 



[The following sections of the new Okla- 

 homa game law are excellent. Oklahoma soon 

 should produce game abundantly. — Editor.] 



AN ACT RELATING TO FISH AND GAME 



AND PROVIDING FOR AND ENCOURAGING 



THE BREEDING OF FUR-BEARING 



ANIMALS, FISH AND GAME. 



Be it enacted by the people of the 

 State of Oklahoma: 



Section 4. The State Game and Fish 

 Warden is authorized to issue permits to 

 propagate fur-bearing animals, game and 

 fish, and he shall make rules governing 

 such industries. 



Section 5. The application for a 

 breeders' permit shall be signed by the 

 applicant and shall describe lands or 

 waters owned or leased by such breed- 

 ers, and such other facts as may be re- 



quired by the State Game and Fish 

 W^arden. 



Section 6. When it appears that the 

 application is made in good faith, the 

 State Game and Fish Warden shall is- 

 sue a permit upon the payment of the 

 fee of two dollars, which, with the fees 

 for tagging hereinafter mentioned, shall 

 be paid to the State Game and Fish 

 Warden. 



Section 7. Licensed breeders shall be 

 permitted to sell and transport fur-bear- 

 ing animals, game and fish at all times, 

 alive for propagation, and alive or dead 

 for food, during such seasons as the 

 State Game and Fish Warden may de- 

 scribe. 



Setcion 8. Such fur-bearing anmals, 

 game or fish shall be properly identified, 

 either by marking the packages or by in- 

 dividual tagging, as may be described by 

 the State Game and Fish Warden. 



Section 9. The licensed breeder sell- 

 ing game illegally procured from lands 

 outside of his premises as described in 

 his application for his license, or who 

 violates the law relating to fur-bearing 

 animals, game or fish, or a regulation 

 made by the State Game and Fish War- 

 den, except as permitted by this act, 

 shall forfeit his license and be fined not 

 more than one hundred dollars and in 

 addition thereto shall be fined and im- 

 prisoned as prescribed for the viola- 

 tion of the laws relating to fur-bearing 

 animals, game and fish. 



Section 10. A person owning a nat- 

 ural pond of not more than twenty 

 acres, or an artificial pond, entirely upon 

 his premises, stocked at his own ex- 

 pense with fish artificially hatched or 

 reared, may take fish from such natural 

 or artificial pond at any time for the 

 purpose of propagation or consumption 

 as food, provided, the sources of the 

 water supply of such natural or artificial 

 pond are entirely upon his premises, and 

 the fish do not have access to such pond 

 from water not under said owner's con- 

 trol, or from waters stocked at the 

 State's expense; provided, that it shall 

 be unlawful to take, catch, possess, or 

 fish for any black bass, small mouth 

 bass, large mouth bass, strawberry or 



