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RECREATION 



black bass. Mr. North will also endeavor to 

 have the Legislature pass a law to stop spring 

 shooting. The former will be of immense 

 importance to the fish companies and the lat- 

 ter of import to the devotees of the gun. 



The chairman of the Maine Fish and Game 

 Commission, L. T. Carleton, of Winthrop, 

 has issued a circular to the milliners of the 

 state calling their attention to the law relat- 

 ing to the killing of birds. 



Plans are being laid for a general over- 

 hauling of the fish and game laws of the State 

 of Ohio. 



On the one hand there is a demand for bet- 

 ter protection for the game and on the other 

 there is a demand for better protection for 

 the people from the game wardens. 



Under the law the entire fish and game 

 question is in the hands of the fish and game 

 commission. 



The governor appoints. 



The board numbers five and each man is 

 appointed for five years. 



Those posted on the lake fisheries realize 

 that unless something radical is done to pro- 

 tect Lake Erie fish the grasping fish trust 

 will soon entirely ruin the fish industry there. 

 There is also a demand for the protection 

 of birds. Senator Berry, in the last general 

 assembly, introduced a bill to entirely pro- 

 hibit the shooting of quail for five years, but 

 it failed to pass. Many citizens believe it 

 should be enacted this season. The farmers 

 are discovering that the quail is valuable as a 

 destroyer of insects that injure their crops 

 and they are demanding that the quail be let 

 alone. 



Opposition to the new state game law of 

 Kansas is already beginning to develop. It is 

 likely that the law will have to run the gant- 

 let of amendments at the next session of the 

 legislature. 



Many of the county clerks, who have to 

 issue licenses in their respective counties, are 

 complaining about the amount of extra work 

 involved. They will ask to have the law 

 changed so that the county shall get part of 

 the fees collected. As it is now, the county 

 clerks have to remit all they take in to the 

 state treasurer, where it is placed to the 

 credit of the game warden's funds. The 

 county clerks say that the new law makes it 

 necessary for the county to buy new books 

 and records in which to keep track of the li- 

 censes issued. What the county clerks would 

 like would be a regulation providing that they 

 should retain about 10 cents for each license 

 issued as their personal rake-off on account 

 of the extra work involved. 



The plea that the county is put to extra 

 expense for the purchase of record books 



does not stand much investigation, for the 

 licenses and stubs are all furnished free of 

 charge by the state game warden. The law 

 simply requires that the county clerk keep a 

 record of the names and addresses of people 

 to whom licenses are issued, and the date of 

 issuance. 



The shipments of "big game" from stations 

 on the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad during 

 the month of October were as follows : 



Deer 1541 



Moose 81 



Bear 14 



This is a very substantial increase over 

 October, 1904, and establishes a new record 

 for deer, being 72 more than were shipped 

 during October, 1902, which has been the rec- 

 ord October up to this time. 



In view of the fact that the weather condi- 

 tions during October were decidedly unfa- 

 vorable from a hunter's standpoint, this rec- 

 ord may be taken as a fair indication that 

 there is no decrease in the number of deer 

 and moose in northern Maine. 



Two of the employees of the Whitney 

 estate on October Mountain, Massachusetts, 

 have been appointed deputy game wardens, 

 because of the number of poachers on the 

 preserve. Hunters have invaded the Whit- 

 ney land and have shot pheasants which are 

 bred there. 



The Ohio game laws provide that ruffed 

 grouse, Mongolian, English or ring-necked 

 pheasants may not be shot before Novem- 

 ber, 1908. Written permission must be ob- 

 tained from the owner of the land upon 

 which hunting is done. A fine of not less 

 than $10 nor more than $15 is prescribed 

 for the first offense. Non-residents of the 

 State must secure a hunter's license from 

 the clerk of courts. It is unlawful to sell 

 guns or ammunition to boys under fourteen 

 years of age, and persons who are owners 

 of hunting outfits are not to permit boys of 

 less than that age to use them. The penalty 

 for a violation of this section is severe. 



The market value of one roast duck 

 served recently in Clinton, Mo., was $50.80. 

 The eighty cents was paid by the traveling 

 man who ate the bird, and the $50 was the 

 fine assessed against the cook who served 

 and sold it. 



Mr. A. W. Galpin, of Phcenix, Arizona, 

 who recently returned from a big deer hunt 

 in the north, and who is entitled, therefore, 

 to speak with some authority in matters per- 

 taining to the chase, says that notwithstand- 

 ing the protection of the game laws, the 

 deer in the mountains are getting scarcer 

 every year. The cause for it, according to 

 the sheep men with whom Mr, Galpin talked, 



