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RECREATION 



cient allies in the war against destructive in- 

 sects. Farmers, sportsmen and all lovers of 

 birds should oppose the programme of this 

 Hanover independent. 



Game Warden Carter, of Lincoln, Neb., 

 says that the demand for game licenses this 

 year is much in excess of what it has been in 

 the past, and the total will probably be 6,000, 

 as compared with 4,000 last year. This is re- 

 garded as an indication that the people of the 

 state are determined to obey the game law. 

 To begin with the department sent out as 

 many as last year, about 4,000, and since that 

 time has had so many applications that the 

 available surplus of 1,000 was speedily ex- 

 hausted. 



Wolf hunting is a profitable business in 

 Minnesota. Since the passage of the first 

 wolf bounty laws in 1866 wolf hunters have 

 received from the state treasury the amazing 

 sum of $773,672.22; while from county gov- 

 ernments they have received an additional 



$51,269.37- 



In other words, $428,941.59 has been paid 

 out for the purpose of wiping out the timber 

 and prairie wolves which made life a burden 

 for the early settlers, and which still ravage 

 stock farms in the northern part of the state. 

 Even more than this has been paid out, as 

 many counties have a separate bounty, of 

 which the state makes no record. The state 

 has been paying wolf bounties for over forty 

 years, and although Minnesota is now a well 

 settled state, it is evident that wolf bounties 

 will be paid for many more years to come. 

 There are now in the hands of the state 

 auditor for payment of bounty 'claims 

 amounting to over $15,000, and some of the 

 northern counties will receive over $1,000 

 each in county payments this year. 



The State Game Department of Nebraska 

 reports that the increase in the number of 

 hunting licenses issued keeps up with the in- 

 crease of wild fowl in Nebraska. Six thou- 

 sand licenses have already been issued, while 

 the total number issued last year was 4,000. 

 Chief Game Warden Carter declares that 

 ducks, geese, prairie chickens and quail are 

 more plentiful than ever before. The Shick- 

 ley lakes in Fillmore county, usually very 

 shal|ow, are now so full of water that boats 

 must be used in hunting. They are filled with 

 mallards, canvasbacks and red heads. Near 

 Hyannis grouse and prairie chickens are es- 

 pecially plentiful. 



deer before the season opens. The people 

 themselves are to blame for the "sooners,''' 

 as a few complaints by farmers and others, 

 followed by arrests and fines, would make 

 these "sooners" pretty careful how they shot 

 game out of season. 



Bobwhite, or the common quail of the 

 East, eats tons of weed seed annually .and 

 should be protected by every farmer as his 

 greatest boon, is the verdict of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture. This authority has 

 taken great pains to study the quail from 

 every point of view, and the results of the 

 investigation will soon be available in a bulle- 

 tin. The department has even taken the 

 trouble to compute the possible amount that 

 may be disposed of in Virginia and North 

 Carolina, where there are believed to be four 

 bobwhites or "partridges," as they are known 

 in the South, to every square mile, making 

 354,820 in each of the two states. According 

 to the figures the quail of the two states each 

 year dispose of 1,341 tons of noxious seeds. 



Gaitanos Veuchio, an Italian, living in 

 Philadelphia, visited the outskirts of Camden 

 recently to shoot robins and had such excel- 

 lent luck that he is languishing in the county 

 prison in default of paying fines amounting 

 to $120. Unless the money is paid he will re- 

 main behind the bars for many days. When 

 he was discovered by Game Wardens Guth- 

 eridge and Wilbur, he became angered and 

 drew his gun and threatened to shoot the 

 state officers. The revolvers of the wardens 

 scared the Italian, and when he was searched 

 six robins were found in his game bag. 



The State Fish and Game Warden of Kan- 

 sas has sent County Clerk Niehaus 100 more 

 hunters' licenses. The county clerk still has 

 a few of the original 20,000 left and is anx- 

 ious to see who will get the one numbered 

 20,000. 



A committee to organize a society to pro- 

 tect fish and to secure good roads in Lake 

 county, Illinois, was appointed at a meeting 

 held in Fox Lake recently by residents of the 

 county. Attorney A. K. Stearns was named 

 as chairman of the committee, which is to 

 draw up a constitution. 



Every person in Wisconsin should become 

 a game warden and make it his duty to ar- 

 rest, or complain on, any one found hunting 



The Texas game laws on seasons are in 

 part as follows : Turkey — Unlawful to kill 

 between Feb. 1 and Nov. 1. Doves — Unlaw- 

 ful to kill between Feb. 1 and Sept. 1. Quail 

 or partridge — Unlawful to kill between Feb. 

 1 and Nov. 1. Prairie chicken or pinnated 

 grouse — Unlawful to kill between Feb. 1 and 

 Sept. 1. 



