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RECREATION 



seems impossible to make shippers through 

 the State understand the law. 



Each time a shipment is received it must 

 be reported to the game warden, who con- 

 fiscates it. The shipper receives no returns 

 from his shipment and demands an explana- 

 tion. When this is given him, he _ fre- 

 quently doubts. At this time the commission 

 merchants are trying to make the law known 

 throughout the State. 



The new game law will net the State of 

 Kansas about $25,000 a year. This money 

 will all go to the building up of a State fish 

 hatchery and the distribution of fish in Kan- 

 sas lakes, ponds and streams. State Game 

 Warden Travis will buy a fish car for use 

 in distributing fish next spring. 



The law compelling each resident of the 

 State to secure a license from the county 

 clerk of his county, at the cost of $1, if 

 he wishes to hunt in Kansas, and all out- 

 siders $15, went into effect the latter part of 

 July. The books show that the sum of 

 $6,257 have been paid to the State up to 

 date from this source of revenue. But one- 

 fourth of the counties have reported, which 

 indicates that the total revenue annually 

 will be close to $25,000. Barton county 

 makes the best showing, with a total collec- 

 tion of $522. Reno is next with $431. Ellis 

 reported §233; Lalbette $229 and Brown 

 $223. 



State Game Warden J. W. Baker, of Ore- 

 gon, was in Grass Valley recently to give 

 his personal supervision to the prosecution 

 of a local man for selling ducks. The new 

 license law has brought in about $12,000, 

 and the law will be closely enforced. The 

 law provides that ducks and game birds 

 cannot be sold during any season of the 

 year, but a few local dealers flooded the 

 market until the deputy game warden 

 stopped them. 



Game Warden Chapma ■■'/ of Calumet, 

 Michigan, is proving himself a most efficient 

 State officer. Just now he is making life 

 miserable for fishermen violating the law, 

 and he has plans to make it warm for hunt- 

 ers who overstep the game provisions. 



It is generally admitted that the Hoosier 

 hunter has a hard row to hoe. Inside his 

 hunting jacket he must not only have a li- 

 cense, but before entering upon the land of 

 any farmer he must first have permission 

 from the owner of the land. This is be- 

 coming more and more difficult to secure 

 every year. Farmers are antagonistic to 

 the hunter, as they generally want quail and 

 rabbits themselves, and the birds are getting 

 scarcer and scarcer. 



Under the game laws, passed by the last 

 legislature, there are some interesting fea- 

 tures. 



After securing his license and permit from 

 the farmer, the hunter can kill but twenty- 

 four birds in any one day. For every one 

 secured in excess of this number he can be 

 fined $10. A person may be fined $10 also 

 for every bird sold or offered for sale. The 

 birds can not be trapped or snared, the mini- 

 mum fine for violation of this provision be- 

 ing $10. 



Deputy Game Warden Charley Post, of 

 Oklahoma City, recently seized two barrels 

 of quail in the hands of the Wells-Fargo 

 Express Company, which were being shipped 

 out of the territory in violation of law. This 

 is the largest haul of this kind made this 

 season. 



Under the Oklahoma law it is unlawful 

 to sell quail or ship them out of the terri- 

 tory. Notwithstanding this law, some one 

 in southwestern Oklahoma undertook to ship 

 two barrels of quail to a Chicago commission 

 house and routed them via the Wells-Fargo 

 Express Company's line. At least, this is 

 the supposition, inasmuch as the barrels con- 

 taining the quail came over the 'Frisco from 

 the southwest. 



The barrels containing the quail bore the 

 address of a Chicago commission house, to 

 which they were consigned, but had nothing 

 to indicate from whence they came or who 

 the shipper was. If the identity of the ship- 

 per could be ascertained, he would be liable 

 to prosecution for violation of the game law. 

 The Wells-Fargo is also liable to prosecu- 

 tion for handling the shipment. 



Since the game laws have been so vigor- 

 ously enforced in Illinois a new confidence 

 game has come to light. Two city sports- 

 men, with guns and dogs, go to a farmer 

 and offer him five dollars for the privilege 

 of shooting on his domain. To protect 

 themselves they make a receipt, which a few 

 weeks later turns up at the bank as a promis- 

 sory note. In one locality farmers were 

 caught to the amount of several thousand 

 dollars. 



New York State has rigid 

 the killing of birds, but the 

 been compelled to carry on 

 warfare against the crows du 

 season. The only way to kill 

 destroyers is to soak some co 

 tion of poison and when the 

 corn they die in a short time. 



laws against 

 farmers have 

 an organized 

 ring the past 

 the feathered 

 rn in a solu- 

 birds eat the 



Under the new game law, no one hunter 

 in Missouri may kill more than twenty-five 

 quail on any one day. However, that pro- 

 vision will not prove a hardship for the ma- 

 jority of hunters. 



