T^^ Game Breeder 



Published Monthly. Entered as second-class matter, July 9, 1915, at the Post Office, New York City, 



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



VOLUME X 



MARCH, (9J7 



SURVEY OF THE FIELD. 



NUMBER 6 



New Bills in Connecticut. 



Mr, G. H. Scranton sends two bills 

 which are approved by the Connecticut 

 Fish and Game Protective Association. 



1. A bill to provide for the licensing 

 and regulation of cats ; fee, 25 cents. Any 

 cat without a metal license tag may be 

 destroyed at any time when found on 

 premises other than that of the owner. 



2. A bill fixing the open season for 

 hares and rabbits (excepting Belgian or 

 German hares) . October 7 to November 

 24, both inclusive. 



There can be no doubt that cats are a 

 great menace to game, and it is to be 

 hoped the new law will reduce the num- 

 bers of these animals. We imagine even 

 the cat with a tag on it may be in jeop- 

 ardy if it encounters a game keepers' 

 dog of traps, and we would not insure 

 it against the gun if the cat should be 

 observed taking young pheasants, unless 

 the tag be a very big one and easily seen. 



We have always enjoyed rabbit shoot- 

 ing on the snow and often the rabbits 

 are not at their best in early October 

 if the weather remains warm. The pro- 

 posed law probably will not affect rabbits 

 and hares owned by clubs and preserve 

 owners, since the clubs now make their 

 own bag and season limits and laws re- 

 lating to public game do not apply, or, at 

 least, they should not be applied to game 

 produced by industry and owned by ihc 

 producer. 



Maine Novelties. 



A charming lot of game law novelties 

 is pending in the Maine . Legislature. 

 There is a bill to regulate fishing in Big 

 Jim pond, west of B. K. P. ; a bill to 



license trappers ; a bill prohibiting fishing 

 in the brook flowing into Hot Hole Pond, 

 for three years; a bill amending the act 

 relating to the taking of suckers, eels and 

 hornpouts. There are bills regulating the 

 fishing in Ross Pond; to prohibit plug 

 fishing in Rangeley Lake ; to allow hunt- 

 ing on Sunday; to regulate fishing in 

 Walton's Mill Pond ; to prevent bathing 

 in Varnum's Pond so long as the water 

 is used for domestic purposes in any vil- 

 lage (a most laudable measure) ; to reg- 

 ulate the taking of smelts, minnows, 

 white fish and cusk; to make it unlaw- 

 ful to catch more than five pounds of 

 fish in Big Jim, "except in case the first 

 fish caught weighs more than 5 pounds." 

 If the second fish runs the catch over 

 five pounds it also may be "carried 

 away" ; to regulate the transportation of 

 fish under special tag; regulating fishing 

 through the ice in Unity Pond ; to amend 

 the law relating to cusk; to provide a 

 bounty on bears, etc., etc. 



There are many more interesting 

 measures listed in Maine Woods — so 

 many, in fact, that one might well imag- 

 ine the population had no other occupa- 

 tion but sketching new game laws. It 

 .would appear, however, that architec- 

 tural enterprise has not been entirely 

 abandoned, since the same issue of 

 Maine Woods we are told that, "the 

 building occupied last summer as a candy 

 shop and recently purchased by A. L. 

 Oakes has been sawed apart and is now 

 ready to be moved to the head of Haley 

 Pond, where it will be made into a dwell- 

 ing house. There appears to be no new 

 law regulating the shooting and fishing 

 on Haley's Pond this year, possibly be- 



