T^^ Game Breeder 



Published Monthly. Enteied as second-class matter, July g, tgis, at the Post Office, New York City,- 



New York, under the Act of March 3, 1879. 



VOLUME X 



FEBRUARY, J9J7 



NUMBER 5 



SURVEY OF THE FIELD. 



More Laws. 



Forty-two States and Alaska, Porto 

 Rico and Hawaii have legislative ses- 

 sions this year and the amount of legis- 

 lation relating to game and fish, no doubt, 

 will be large. It is to be hoped, and 

 safely it may be predicted, that the num- 

 ber of laws will not be as large as it has 

 been in previous years : the "more game 

 and fewer game laws" idea seems to 

 have traveled far and wide. 



It is gratifying to observe that there 

 is much interest in game breeding enact- 

 ments and that probably the few remain- 

 ing States which have prevented game 

 production will enact short simple laws 

 encouraging such industry; and these 

 laws promise to be permanent and not 

 subject to repeated changes when they 

 permit the breeding and sale of all spe- 

 cies of game without too many regula- 

 tions and restrictions. 



A Much Needed Amendment. 



The laws should be amended every- 

 where so as to permit breeders to trap 

 game for propagation purposes. It 

 should not be legal to destroy a certain 

 number of birds and illegal to take a sim- 

 ilar number alive for the purpose of mul- 

 tiplying their numbers. This idea seems 

 to hav^ been endorsed by all intelligent 

 sportsmen and naturalists. 



More Lavvrs for Penhsylvania. 



At a meeting of the Pennsylvania 

 Game Commission and representatives 

 of sportsmen's organizations', January 4, 

 recommendations for more g^me laws 

 were prepared for submission to the leg- 



islature. It was proposed to shorten the 

 season for small game ; to make the sea- 

 sons for wild turkeys November 10 to 

 November 25 ; for Snipe September 1 to 

 November 25. Raccoon to be unpro- 

 tected because of the harm they do to 

 wild life and trout. The season for 

 waterfowl to be September 1 to Decem- 

 ber 15. 



Daily bag limits are recommended: 

 rufifed grouse, 4 ; rabbits, 8. Season lim- 

 its are proposed for ruflfed grouse, 20; 

 wild turkey, 1 ; quail, 25 ; woodcock, 20 ; 

 ring-necked pheasants, 10; Hungarian 

 quail, 10 ; bear, 1 ; assorted squirrels, 20 ; 

 rabbits, 40; hares, 15; deer, 1. 



Oklahoma. 



Oklahoma sportsmen have resolved to 

 have numerous changes in the game 

 laws : providing for a dove season August 

 1 to October 1; a quail season Novem- 

 ber 1-December 15 ; the removal of the 

 bag limit from ducks and geese ; a 

 bounty on hawks, 50 cents; a small fee 

 for fishing licenses, etc. 



Virginia. 



Reports from Virginia indicate that 

 the new game law is being given a fair 

 trial. Hundreds of arrests have been 

 made, for the most part, we are told, for 

 failure to purchase shooting licenses. 

 This, after all, is the most important part 

 of game statutes. Anyone easily can for- 

 get the ever changing bag limit provi- 

 sions, the fleeting regulations about sea- 

 sons and the having of game in posses- 

 sion for propagation purposes, etc., but 

 no one should forget to pay his license 



