FROM THE GAME FIELDS. 



NORTH DAKOTA GAME NOTES. 



Valley City, N. D. 

 Editor Recreation: 



The North Dakota Legislature has 

 changed the game laws of the State con- 

 siderably this session, and as they now 

 stand the open season on deer is made 

 one month shorter, November 1st to De- 

 cember ist. Five days are allowed to 

 get game home, and the limit is 5 deer 

 to each hunter. 



The open season on grouse, chickens 

 and woodcock is September ist to Octo- 

 ber 15th, 15 days more than formerly. No 

 woodcock are known to linger in the 

 State. Twenty-five is the limit. 



Snipe, plover and brant are not pro- 

 tected. Geese and cranes may be shot 

 from August 20th to May ist. Quails, 

 English and Chinese pheasants are pro- 

 tected until August 20th, 1905. 



The open season on buffalo, moose, 

 elk, caribou and mountain sheep is Octo- 

 ber 10th to December 10th; same num- 

 ber and limit of time as on deer. There 

 are, however, none in the State wild. Oc- 

 casionally a moose wanders across the 

 border line of Minnesota and in the 

 Northeastern portion of this State, and is 

 chased, captured or killed by North Da- 

 kotans. 



Antelope are protected until January 

 ist, 191 1. There are quite a number about 

 the Southwest and Northwest portions of 

 the State and in the Turtle mountains. 



Beaver and otter are protected until 

 November 10th, 1905. 



No hunting by residents is allowed 

 without permit. Non-residents actually 

 engaged in cultivation of not less than 160 

 acres of land in the State have the same 

 privilege as bona fide residents. Others 

 must pay a $25 license fee. 



On wild ducks the open season is Sep- 

 tember ist to October 15th; 25 a day 

 limit. No exportation permitted. 



The wolf bounty is $2, State allowance. 

 On buffalo and timber wolves a bounty of 

 $12 is offered by cattlemen in addition to 

 the State bounty. 



Hounding, spring guns, traps or other 

 devices are prohibited. 



Beaver are increasing bv protection. 

 Several families or colonies exist on the 

 Cheyenne and Wild Rice rivers in the 

 Eastern part of the State. Otter are re- 

 ported within a few miles of this city on 

 the Cheyenne; also millions of muskrats. 



Rivers are becoming filled with sand 

 pike, walleyed pike, rock bass and pick- 

 erel. Several of the latter weighing 20 

 pounds have been caught in the Cheyenne 



here this winter, with hook and line, 

 through the ice. 



All dams within the State must have 

 fishways, built after the Buck plans used 

 in Minnesota. 



The first deer seen in Barnes county 

 were noticed by farmers yesterday a few 

 miles South of this city. They were of 

 the white tailed variety. 



We are pleased to note the reappoint- 

 ment of Samuel F. Fullerton as executive 

 agent of the Minnesota State Game C m- 

 mission. 



I learn to-day that a fellow named But- 

 terfield, from near this city, who has 

 taken up a claim on the Montana side op- 

 posite Buford, N. D., boasts of having 

 killed 60 deer last fall and winter. I think 

 he will be looked after in future. One 

 Valley City man shot 5 deer near Buford, 

 when in company with a party of 4 others 

 from here last fall. He was not satisfied 

 so he stayed and got 5 others; but they 

 were nailed at Minot by the game warden. 

 Served the hog right. Keep up the good 

 work of trouncing game hogs. 



A few weeks ago I visited Nebraska and 

 assisted in framing a game law which 

 will practically stop the exportation of 

 game from that State. It had reached an 

 alarming figure. The State will probably 

 provide for a State game warden to look 

 after the enforcement of any laws passed. 



Last week Anton Johnson, a rancher 

 living South of Sims, N. D., near Me- 

 dora, took to Sims for the bounty of $12 

 that is paid by the stockmen, a large 

 buffalo wolf, which he had trapped. It 

 was 7 feet long from the tip of its nose 

 to the end of its tail. 



North Dakota has abolished the office 

 of State fish and forestry commissioner 

 and the State game warden will have to 

 look after fish. 



I saw several large flocks of mallards 

 and teals wintering in the swamps above 

 Salem, Wis., December 23d last while en 

 route to Nebraska on the Burlington road. 



F. T. Smith. 



AN EFFICIENT GAME WARDEN. 

 Some time ago I wrote you complain- 

 ing that illegal fishing and shooting was 

 being done near East Camden and along 

 Cooper's creek, in Camden county, New 

 Jersey. Today, thank goodness ! we have 

 the law breakers "on the run." When I 

 say "we," I include Fish and Game War- 

 den William Guthridge, of Camden county, 

 an honest and fearless officer of the New 

 Jersey Commission, whom I was able to 

 enlist in the good work. I enclose his re- 



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