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RECREA TION. 



submit to the total destruction of several 

 important species of game birds and mam- 

 mals within a very few years. It is con- 

 ceded by thoughtful men of to-day that 

 the price of game should be the skill and 

 the energy to go into the fields or the 

 woods and kill it, and that men who do not 

 possess these qualities should be content 

 to eat poultry, or beef, or other domestic 

 meats. 



The great evil that results from allowing 

 game to be sold is that in open season it 

 is bought and placed in cold storage. 

 Then from these cold storage houses it is 

 sold clandestinely, in violation of law, all 

 through the year, and is served in hotels 

 and restaurants under various fictitious 

 names. As a matter of fact, cold storage 

 game is not fit to eat. It is an insult to the 

 palate of any gentleman to place before 

 him a bird or a piece of venison that has 

 been frozen and stored for a month or 

 more; yet many people who do not know 

 the difference between a fresh bird and a 

 frozen one insist on having game, at all 

 times of the year and at any price, because 

 they deem it aristocratic. To the victors 

 belong the spoils. This should be true in 

 field sports as well as in politics, and 

 sportsmen who can kill game should be 

 the only persons allowed to eat it. — 

 Editor. 



SYNOPSIS OF THE GAME AND FISH LAWS OF 

 MICHIGAN FOR 1900. 



GAME. 



Open season for grouse, quail, spruce 

 hen, snipe, woodcock and plover, Oct. 20th 

 to Nov. 30th, both inclusive, except in the 

 Upper Peninsula, where the open season 

 for grouse is Oct. 1st to Nov. 30th, both 

 inclusive. 



Prairie chickens are protected until 1902. 



Wild ducks, geese, brant and other water 

 fowl may be killed from y 2 hour before 

 sunrise until i l / 2 hours after sunset from 

 Sept. 1st to Jan. 31st. 



Blue-bill, canvasback, widgeon, pintail, 

 whistler, spoon-bill, butter-ball and saw- 

 bill ducks and wild geese may be killed 

 from Sept. 1st until May 1st. 



The open season for killing wild ducks, 

 geese, brant and other water fowl in the 

 Upper Peninsula is from Sept. 1st until 

 Jan. 15th. 



Wild pigeon, Mongolian and English 

 pheasants are protected until 1905. It is 

 unlawful to kill mourning doves at any 

 time. The killing of song or insectivorous 

 birds of any kind is unlawful. 



The sale of grouse, quail or woodcock 

 is prohibited. 



Open season for deer in any portion of 

 flic State, except Alcona. T.apeer, Huron, 



Sanilac, Tuscola, Macomb, Allegan, Ot- 

 tawa and St. Clair counties, Nov. 8th to 

 Nov. 30th, both inclusive. All hunters 

 must be provided with a license to hunt 

 deer. The resident license fee is 75 cents; 

 non-residents, $25. 



It is unlawful to make use of dogs in 

 hunting or pursuing deer, and the presence 

 of a hound in a hunting camp or club 

 house during the hunting season is made 

 prima facie evidence of guilt. 



Five days are allowed hunters to get 

 their deer out of the woods after the close 

 of the hunting season, after which it is a 

 violation for transportation companies to 

 transport or have them in possession. 



Moose, elk and caribou are protected 

 until 1909. 



Wild turkeys are protected until 1905. 



Open season for hunting foxes, black 

 and gray squirrels, Oct. 1st to Dec. 31st, 

 both inclusive. 



GAME FISH. 



Open season for catching speckled or 

 brook trout and grayling, May 1st to 

 Sept. 1st. It is unlawful to have in pos- 

 session any speckled trout or grayling of 

 a less length than 6 inches. 



The catching or shipping of brook trout 

 or grayling for sale is prohibited. 



Black, strawberry, green or white bass 

 may be taken, with hook and line only, at 

 any season of the year. 



The use of any kind of nets in any of 

 the inland waters of the State is unlawful, 

 except in streams not protected by local 

 act, where dip-nets may be used for taking 

 suckers, mullet, redsides and grass pike. 



The transportation or shipment of any 

 game or game fish beyond the boundaries 

 of the State is prohibited. 



Beaver are protected until 1906. 



Open season for taking otter, fisher and 

 marten, Nov. 15th to May 1st. 



COMMERCIAL FISHES. ». 



The taking of white fish and lake trout 

 is prohibited from Oct. 30th to Dec. 15th, 

 except in that portion of Lake Erie bor- 

 dering on Monroe county, where the 

 closed season is from Nov. 15th to Dec. 



1 St. 



Herring and other rough fish may be 

 taken in pound nets from April 1st to July 

 15th, and from Sept. 1st to Dec. 15th, 

 where it will not interfere with or catch 

 immature whitefish or trout. 



Heavy fine or imprisonment, or both, 

 is provided for a violation of any of the 

 provisions of these statutes. 



An official compilation of the game and 

 fish laws of the State may be obtained by 

 addressing the State Game and Fish 

 Warden at Portland, Mich. 



