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OPEN SEASONS FOR GAME AND FISH. 



REVISED TO JULY 17, 1S84. 



General Provisions. 



IT is unlawful: To kill, have in possession, transport or sell 

 game birds, animals and fish, save only in the open season 

 for each given herein; to net or snare game birds or animals; 

 to take or kill game fishes by any other means than angling; to 

 shoot waterfowl at night," or with any other than shoulder- 

 gUDs; to hunt rabbits with ferrets; to enter in< losed land for 

 shooting -without consent of owner; to kill (except for scien- 

 tific purpose) insectivorous or song birds at any time, or to rob 

 nests of wild birds (except birds of prey). 



Laics forbidding export of game obtain in Colorada, Con- 

 necticut,' Dakota, Delaware, Indiana. Michigan, Minnesota, 

 Missouri, Nebraska, New York, North Carolina, Wisconsin, 

 Ontario, Wyoming. 



Discriminations against non-residents obtain in Delaware, 

 Iowa, Missouri, New Brunswick, New Jersey, North Carolina, 

 Nova Scotia, Quebec, Tennessee. 



I3F* The dates given are (hose between which the game and 

 fish named may be lawfully taken. 



British Columbia. 



Deer, elk, reindeer, caribou, hare, Sept. 1-Jan, 10, Grouse, 

 partridge, prairie fowl, quail, snipe, robin, meadow lark, 

 Sept. 1-Feb. 1. Wild duck, Sept. 1-March 1. Pheasant pro- 

 tected to Sept. 1, 1886. 



Connecticut. 



Ruffed grouse, quail and woodcock, Oct. 1-Jan. 1. Wild- 

 fowl, Sept. 1-May 1. Rail, Sept. 1'2-Jan. 1 (in New Haven, 

 Fairfield and Litchfield counties, Aug, "O-Jan. 1). Game ex- 

 portation forbidden . Wildfowl may be shot only with gun 

 "such as is commonly raised at arm's length;'' shooting- from 

 saiiing or steam vessel, or sink-box on feeding ground, forbid- 

 den 



Speckled trout, April 1-July 1. Unlawful to net pike, 

 pickerel, black bass, mascalonge. Local fish laws govern cer- 

 tain waters. 



Delaware. 



Partridge, quail, pheasant, ruffed grouse, woodcock, hare, 

 rabbit, in Kent and Sussex counties, Nov. 15-Jan. 15; in New 

 Castle county, Nov. 15-Jan. 1. Ortolan, reedbird, rail, Sept. 

 1-Jan, 1. Pinnated grouse (prairie chicken) protected to 1886, 



Birds and rabbits may be killed by any person on his own 

 land at any time. Entrance upon land for shooting without 

 owner's consent, forbidden. Non-residents must become mem- 

 bers of the Delaware Game Protective Association, fee, $5 

 first year, $3 per year thereafter. Secretary, George Church- 

 man,' Wilmington, Del. Stinday shooting forbidden. License 

 (fee $50) required to export game for market. License (fee $25) 

 required for buying game to sell again. 



Indiana. 



Ruffed grouse and quail, Oct. 15-Dec. 20. Woodcock, July 1- 

 Jan. 1. Wildfowl, Sept. I- April 15, Pinnated grouse, Sept. 1- 

 Feb. 1. Wild turkey, Nov. L-Peb. 1. Deer, Oct. 1-Jau. 1. 



Exportation of deer, "quail, .pheasant, wild duck, grouse, 

 prairie chicken or woodcock," forbidden. 



Maine. 



Moose, deer and* caribou, Oct. 1-Jan. 1 (forbidden to hunt 

 with dogs), unlawful for one person to take more than one 

 moose, two caribou or three deer in one season. Mink, beaver, 

 sable, otter, fisher, muskrat, Oct. 15-May 1. Wood duck, 

 dusky, black or other sea duck, Sept. 1-May 1. Wildfowl 

 law does not apply to seacoast. Ruffed grouse (partridge), 

 woodcock, Sept. 1-Dec. 1; pinnated grouse, Sept. 1-Jan. 1; 

 plover, Aug. 1-May 1. Woodcock and ruffed grouse may 

 be killed only for "consumption within the State. Sunday 

 shooting forbidden. 



Salmon, April 1-Sept. 15 ; netting salmon permitted only from 

 April 1-July 15. Angling for salmon within 100 yards of a 

 hshway, dam or mill race, forbidden. Smelts, April 1-Oct. 1. 

 Black bass, Oswego bass, white perch, July 1- April 1. Land- 

 locked salmon, trout, togue, May 1-Oct. 1 ; in St. Croix River 

 and tributaries, and all waters in Kennebec county, May 1- 

 Sept. 15; during months of February, March and April it is 

 lawful for citizens to take "and convey the same to their 

 homes, but not otherwise." Unlawful to take land-locked 

 salmon less than 9 inches in length, or trout less than 5 inches; 

 or take, transport or have in possession for transjjortation 

 more than fifty pounds of land-locked salmon or trout, or both. 

 Unlawful to take these fish in Kennebago, Mollychunkamunk, 

 Cupsuptic, Mooselucmaguntic and Welokennebacook lakes 

 and tributaries, between Feb. 1 and May 1 ; unlawful in said 

 waters to use spawn bait in September. Unlawful to take 

 trout or land-locked salmon in the Rangeley stream, between 

 the mouth of Kennebago stream and Howard's dam, from 

 July 1-May 1, or at the South Bog stream from July 1-May 1, 

 or in the Bemis stream from July 1-May 1, or in tUe Cupsuptic 

 stream from July 1-May 1, or in the Kennebago stream be- 

 tween the foot of the first falls, near its junction with the 

 Rangeley stream and the upper falls at the outlet of Kenne- 

 bago Lake, from Sept. 1-May 1. 



The Commissioners of Fisheries and Game are E. M. Stilwell, 

 Bangor; H. O. Staidey, Dixfield. A digest of the laws may 

 be had on application to them. 



Manitoba. 



Deer, cabri, or antelope, elk or wapiti, moose, reindeer or 

 caribou, Oct. 1-Jan. 1. Ruffed grouse, pheasants, partridges, 

 prairie chickens, Sept. 1-Jan. 1. Woodcock, plover, snipe, 

 and sandpipers, Aug. 1-Jan. 1. All kinds of wild duck, sea 

 duck, pigeon, teal, wfid swan, or wild goose, except the 

 variety of wdd goose commonly known as the snow goose or 

 the wavy, Aug. 15-May 1. Otter, fisher or pekan, beaver, 

 muskrat and sable, Oct. 1-May 15. Mink and marten, Nov. l- 

 April 15. Exportation of game forbidden ; consent of land- 

 owner required before entering premises for hunting. To col- 

 lect birds, etc., for scientific purposes, certificate must be 

 obtained from Minister of Agriculture. 



Michigan. 



Deer, in Lower Peninsula, Oct. 1-Dec. 1; Upper Peninsula, 

 Aug. 15-Nov. 15. Forbidden to kill deer in red coat or fawn in 

 spotted coat, to kill in water or by pit, pitfall or trap. Elk 

 protected to 1889. Ruffed grouse, Sept. 1-Jan. 1. Quail, Nov. 

 1-Jan. 1. Woodcock, Aug. 1-Jan. 1. Pinnated grouse, Sept. 

 1-Nov. 1. Wild turkey, Oct. 1-Jan. 1. Wildfowl, Sept. 1-May 

 1. (Wood, mallard, teal and gray ducks, Sept. 1-Jan. 1.) 

 Snipe, Sept. 1-May 1. Swivel or punt gun and night-shooting 

 wilafowl forbidden. Wild pigeons protected in vicinity (five 

 miles) of nesting. Exportation of deer, ruffed grouse, quail, 

 prairie chicken, wild turkey, forbidden. 



Speckled trout, May 1-Sept. 1 . Grayling, June 1-Nov. 1. 

 Forbidden to take trout from stream within three years after 

 it has been stocked, to catch grayling or brook trout of less 

 than 6 inches length, to take California trout prior to June, 

 1885, Special laws govern certain waters. 



The State society is the. Michigan Sportsmen's Association, 

 Secretary, S. A. Rogers, Jackson. 



Missouri. 



Ruffed grouse and quail, Oct. 15-Feb. 1. Woodcock, July 1.- 

 Jan. 10. Pinnated grouse, Aug. 15. -Feb. 1, Wild turkey, 



Sept. 15-March 1. Deer, Sept. 1-Jan. 15. Plover, dove, 

 meadow lark, Aug. 1-Feb. 1. 



Unlawful for non-residents to kill game for exportation 

 from State. 



New Hampshire. 



Plover, yellow-legs, sandpipers, woodcock, ducks and rail, 

 Aug. 1-Feb. 1. Ruffed grouse, partridge, quail, Sept. 1-Feb. 1. 

 Deer, moose and caribou, Sept. 1-Dee. 1. Mink, beaver, sable, 

 otter, fisher, Oct. 15-Apnl 1. Raccoon ('coom, gray squirrel, 

 Sept. 1-Jan.' 1. Hare, rabbit, muskrat, Sept. 1-April 1. 



Land-locked or fresh-water salmon, lake trout, brook or 

 speckled trout (none less than four inches), April 30-Sept. SO. 

 (Lake trout may also be taken "with single hook and line 

 onlv," Jan. 1 -April SO). Pike-perch, white perch, July 1-May 1. 

 Black bass, June 15- April 30. Muskallonge, pickerel, pike, 

 grayliug, June 1-April 1. Forbidden to take striped bass of 

 less than 'fifteeu inches length. Fish introduced by Commis- 

 sioners protected for five years. 



Fish and Game Commissioners: George W. Riddle, Man- 

 chester; Elliot B. Hodge, Plymouth; Luther Hayes, South 

 Milton. 



New Jersey. 



Ruffed grouse and quail, Nov. 1-Jan. 1. Woodcock, July 1- 

 Aug. 1, and Oct. 1-Dec 16. Pinnated grouse, Oct. 15-Dec. 1. 

 Deer, Oct. 15-Dec. 1. Rail, Sept. 1-Dec. 1. Reedbird (marsh 

 hen) Aug. 25-Dec. 1. Upland plover, Aug. 1-Jan. 1. Summer 

 duck, Sept. 1-Jan. 1. Squirrels, Sept. 1-Jan. 1. Rabbit, 

 Nov. 1-Jan. 1. 



Salmon trout, March 1-Oct. 1. Brook trout, March 1-Oct. 1. 

 Black bass, June 1-Nov. 1. 



Non-residents must become members of a game protective 

 society of the State to shoot or fish within its borders, under 

 a penalty of $SD. New Jersey Game and Fish Protective 

 Society has jurisdiction over entire State. Fee, $2 annually. 

 Secretary, Win. L. Force, Plaintield, N. J. Or, non-residents 

 to shoot or fish in Camden, Gloucester, Atlantic, Salem, Cum- 

 berland and Cape May counties, may obtain membership cer- 

 tificate of West Jersey Game Protective Society. Fee, $5 

 first year, $2 annually thereafter. Secretary, Win. T. Miller, 

 100 Market street, Camden, N. J. 



New York. 



Ruffed and pinnated grouse, Sept. 1-Jan. 1. Quail, Nov. 1- 

 Jan. 1. Woodcock, Aug. 1-Jan. 1 (Oneida, Dutchess and Dela- 

 ware counties, Sept. 1-Jan, 1), Wildfowl, Sept. 1-May 1 (in 

 Long Island waters, Oct. 1-May 1): use of guns, except such 

 as are habitually fired from the "shoulder, shooting from sail- 

 ing or steam vessels (excepted localities), use of battery or 

 machine, deco3~s or bough houses at greater distance than 

 twenty rods from shore (excepted localities), blind, net, snare 

 or trap, unlawful. Deer, Aug. 1-Dec. 1; hounding, Aug. 15- 

 Nov. 1, forbidden at all times in St. Lawrence county. Un- 

 lawful to crust, to kill by trap or spring gun, or to kill fawn 

 in spotted coat. Robin, meadow lark, starling, Oct. 1-Jan. 1. 

 Rabbit (hare), Nov. 1-Feb. 1; use of ferrets unlawful. Squir- 

 rel, Aug. 1-Feb. 1. 



Speckled trout, Aprd 1-Sept, 1. California trout, Sept. 1- 

 May 15. Black bass, Oswego bass, June 1-Jan. 1; in Lake 

 Mahopac, Dutchess county, Schroon Lake and River, Paradox 

 Lake, July 16-Jan. 1; Lake George, July 30-Jan. 1. Salmon 

 (or lake) trout, April 1-Oct. 1; in Lake George, May 1-Oct. 1. 

 Forbidden to take striped bass of less than one-half pound 

 weight. Unlawful to catch any fish within eighty rods of 

 fishway. 



Sunday shooting and fishing forbidden. Unlawful to export 

 game from Dutchess and Rockland counties. Non-residents 

 must pay $10 license fee to shoot in Richmond county (Staten 

 Island). Forbidden to shoot for market in Niagara comity. 



Game protectors — See list elsewhere. 



Pennsylvania. 



Ruffed and pinnated grouse, Oct. 1-Jan. 1. Quail, Oct. 15- 

 Jan. 1. Woodcock, July 4-Jan. 1. Wildfowl, Sept. 1-Jan. 1; 

 on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays of each week only; 

 shooting from steam or sailing craft forbidden, also netting 

 and use of "other than such guns as habitually are raised at 

 arm's length and fired from the shoulder." Wild turkey, Oct. 

 15-Jan. 1, Deer and elk, Oct. 1-Dec. 15; transportation allowed 

 only Oct. 1-Nov, 80; forbidden to kill fawn in spotted coat, or 

 to pursue or kill elk or deer in the water, or to chase them 

 with dogs. Plover, July 15-Jan. 1. Rabbit (hare), Nov. 1- 

 Jan. 1. Rail and reedbird, Sept. 1-Dec. 1. Grouse shooting 

 at night unlawful. Wild pigeons protected on nesting ground. 

 Sunday shooting and fishing unlawful. 



Salmon, speckled trout, April 1-Aug. 1. Lake trout, Jan. 1- 

 Oct. 1 . Black bass, June 1-Jan. 1. Green bass, yellow bass, 

 willow bass, rock bass, Lake Erie or grass bass, pike or pick- 

 erel, or wall-eyed pike, commonly called Susquehanna salmon, 

 June 1-Jan. 1 ; does not apply to Lake Erie waters, save ponds 

 on Erie Harbor peninsula. Speckled or California trout may 

 not be taken less than five inches in length, nor black, yellow 

 or green bass less than six inches in length. 



Pike County: Deer, Oct. 1-Dec. 1; cannot be killed in the 

 water. Squirrel, Sept. 1-Dec. 15. Rabbit, Oct. 15 to Dec. 15. 

 Wood or summer duck, Oct. 1-Jan. 1. Woodcock, July 4-Dec. 

 15. Quail, Oct. 15-Dec. 1. Ruffed grouse, Sept.' 15-Dec. 15. 

 Salmon, speckled trout, May 1-Aug. 1. Pike, pickerel, June 1- 

 Feb. 15. 



Quebec. 



Moose and deer, Sept. 1-Feb. 1 (female moose may not be 

 killed before Oct. 15, 1888). Caribou, Sept. 1-March 1. Non- 

 residents (except with permit) forbidden to take in one season 

 more than 2 moose, 3 deer, or 2 caribou. Beaver, mink, otter, 

 marten or pekan, Nov. 1-April 1. Hare, Sept. 1-March 1. Musk- 

 rat (in Maskinonge,Yamaska, Richelieu and Berthier counties), 

 April 1-May 1. Woodcock, partridge and snipe, Sept. 1-Feb. 1. 

 Black duck, teal and wild duck of any kind, Sept. 1-May 1. 

 Migratory quail protected to Dec. 31, 1886. 



Non-residents. — "No person who is not domiciled in the 

 province of Quebec nor in that of Ontario, can at any time 

 hunt in this province . . . without being authorized thereto 

 by license to that effect. Such permit may, on payment of a 

 fee of twenty dollars, be granted by the Commissioner of 

 Crown Lands to any person . . . and is valid for a whole 

 shooting season." Permits may also be granted to non-resi- 

 dents to take specimens for scientific purposes. 



Salmon, May 1-Sept. 1. Speckled trout, Dec. 31-Oot. 1. 

 Lake (salmon) trout, Dec. 1-Oct. 15. Black bass, mascalonge 

 and pickerel, May 15-April 15. 



Canadian Non Export Law. 



"The export of deer, wild turkeys and quail in the. carcass 

 or parts thereof, is hereby declared unlawful aud prohibited, 

 and any person exporting or attempting to export any such 

 articles, shall, for each such offense, incur a penalty of *100, 

 and the articles so attempted to be exported shall be forfeited, 

 and may, on reasonable cause of suspicion of intention to ex- 

 port the same, be seized by auy officer of customs, and if such 

 intention be proved, shall be dealt with as for breach of the 

 customs laws."— Customs Act, 1883. 



Wisconsin. 



Ruffed, sharptail and pinnated grouse and quail, wood duck, 

 mallaid and teal, Aug. 15-Jan. 1. Woodcocic, July 10-Jan 1. 

 Deer, Nov. 1-Dec. 15. Fire- shooting deer, chasing with dogs 

 and exportation forbidden; also wildfowl shooting with 

 "other than a gun habitually raised at arm's length and dis- 

 charged from the shoulder," or by float, sneak boat, sail or 

 steamboat, Otter, mink, muskrat, fisher, Nov. 1-May 1. 



Speckled trout, April 15-Aug. 15. Black ba9s, wall-eyed 

 pike, May 1-Feb. 1, 



NEW YORK GAME PROTECTORS. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Jn answer to your note of inquiry about changes in the 

 corps of game protectors, 1 inclose you a list of the protec- 

 tors and of their respective districts as reorganized by the 

 Commissioners of Fisheries at their rneetiug at Albany in 

 May last, viz. : 



First District. Counties of Suffolk, Queens, Kings and 

 Richmond — George W. Whitaker, Southampton, Suffolk 

 county. 



Second. New York, Rockland and Orange — Joseph H. God' 

 win , Jr. , Kings Bridge, New York. 



Third. Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess, Columbia, Greene 

 aud Ulster— Matthew Kennedy, Hudson, Columbia county. 



Fourth. Albany, Schenectady, Schoharie, Delaware and 

 Sullivan — Francisco Wood. Schoharie, Schoharie county. 



Fifth. Rensselaer, Washington, Warren, Saratoga and the 

 town of Indian Lake, in Hamilton— Seymour C. Armstrong, 

 Weavertown, Warren county. 



Sovth. Essex, Clinton and all of the town of Long Lake 

 in Hamilton except that part lying west of the east liue of 

 great lots Nos. 4, 5, 41 and 42— John Liberty, Elizabcthtown, 

 Essex county. 



Seventh. St. Lawrence and Franklin — Peter R. Leonard, 

 Ogdeusburg. 



Eighth. Montgomery, Fulton and the towns of Benson, 

 Hope, Wells, Lake Pleasant, Arietta and Morehouse, except 

 that portion of Morehouse and Arritta lying north of the 

 south branch of Moose River— Thomas Bradley, Rockwood, 

 Fulton comity. 



Ninth, All that part of Lewis lying east of the Black River 

 and of the west lines of the towns OJ Diana and Croghan, all 

 that part of Wilmurt, Herkimer county, and of Morehouse 

 and Arietta, in Hamilton, lying north of the south branch of 

 Moose River, and all that part of Long Lake, in Hamilton, 

 lyiug west of the east line of great lots Nos. 4, 5, 41 and 42— 

 John L. Brinckerhoff, post-office address, Old Forge, Herkimer 

 county, or Boonvfile, Oneida county. 



Tenth, AJ1 that part of Oneida' lying north of the south 

 line of Verona, Rome, Marcy and Deerfield, all of the county 

 of j_,ewis lying west of the Black River and west of the west 

 lines of Diana and Croghan, and all of the county of Herki- 

 mer lying south of the south branch of Moose River— Nathan 

 C. Phelps, Remsen, Oneida county. 



Eleventh. The counties of Otsego, Chenango, Broome, Cort- 

 land and Tioea, and all the towns of Oneida county lying 

 south of the south lines of the towns of Verona, Rome. Marcy 

 and Deerfield— Frederick P. Drew, Washington Mills, Oneida 

 county. 



Twelfth. Jefferson and Oswego— Wm. N. Steele, Clayton, 

 Jefferson county. 



Thirteenth. Madison, Onondaga, Cayuga, Wayne, Seneca, 

 and the waters of Oneida Lake in Oswego— Wra. H. Lindsey, 

 Canastota, Madison county. 



Fourteenth. Schuyler, Yates, Chemung. Tompkins, Steu- 

 ben and Allegany— A. N. Parish, Reading, Schuyler county. 



Fifteenth. Monroe, Livingston, Ontario, Wyoming, Genesee 

 and Orleans— Geo. M. Schvvarts. Rochester, Monroe county. 



Sixteenth. Erie, Niagara, Chautauqua and Cattaraugus — 

 Stephen A. Roberts, Buffalo, Erie county. 



The new arrangement of districts was made especially to 

 afford greater protection to the deer districts in the Northern 

 Wilderness, and to the waters of the St. Lawrence River. 



Six protectors were detailed for service in the deer districts 

 the present season, and the results of their services thus far 

 have been very gratifying, In June eight violaters were 

 detected by Protector Brinckerhoff in the Upper Moose 

 River and Independence waters, where heretofore the poach- 

 ers have defied law. Protector Leonard, of the St. Lawrence 

 district, has had equal success on his beat. Protector Arm- 

 strong, of Warren county, reports that the law was never so 

 closely observed in his district as it is now, and good results 

 are reported also by Protectors Liberty, of Essex, and 

 Phelps, of Northern Oneida. 



The waters of the St. Lawrence and of Oneida and Seneca 

 lakes have been swept of nets and other unlawful devices, 

 and it may be safely said that there is, on account of the 

 good organization of the protector system, a more general 

 and vigilant enforcement of the game laws than ever" before 

 existed in the State. R. U. Sherman, 



Sec'y N. Y. State Com. of Fisheries. 

 Office of the Secretary, New Hartford, N. T., July 10. 



TWO-EYED SHOOTING. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



I have no tine-spun memories on the subject of one-eyed 

 and two-eyed shooting, but for myself, I wish I had never 

 heard of sighting down the barrel. 



Any one shooting in 1 ' e woods who shuts one eye is liable 

 to put the whole load in a limb or a sapling that he didn't 

 see when he pulled trigger; whereas, with both eyes open he 

 would have seen the bird and all intervening objects. 

 Again, if he aims with one eye at a bird coming overhead, 

 the shot will pass under and behind the bird; and this must 

 be so, because the line of fire and the line of flight are in op- 

 posite directions. Obviously then, the only way, except by 

 chance, to hit a bird as he flies head on is to aim in front, 

 and this can only be done with accuracy with both eyes 

 open, as anybody may see who will try the experiment. 

 This is also true of cross shots, 49. 



VlROINIA. __^ 



THE THREE-DAYS DUCKING ,LAW. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



The most encouraging reports are coming in concerning 

 the quantity and quality of game for the coming fall shoot- 

 ing. Quail and pheasants have wintered finely and are doing- 

 well, ducks will be found in the proper localities in abund- 

 ance, and rabbits are now, as they long have been, predom- 

 inantly on the increase. 



In a recent number of your journal, a correspondent 

 speaks in the highest praise of the "every-other-day" law, 

 regulating the shooting of ducks. Is it not in reality an ab- 

 surdity tending to disgust, rather than to give satisfaction to 

 the duck hunter, especially to him who travels a long dis- 

 tance and has but a limited time in which to enjoy the plea- 

 sure of duck shooting? As an illustration of the* fallacy of 

 this law, suppose a city individual whose duties are of such 

 auature as to render his time extremely limited, manages to 

 lock his safe, don his shooting suit, and joyfully depart for 

 the duck pond or marsh for a week's enjoyment. Arriving 

 there probably on Monday, he awakes to an awful realization 

 of the fact that out of six days set apart by him for duck 

 shooting, three, at least, and probably four days, are irre- 

 trievably lost. Yet his board bill and* other incidental ex- 

 penses run on with alarming regularity. Ducks may be, as 

 they often are when you expect them otherwise, conspicuous 

 by their absence, the weather may be in any other state than 

 propitious for duck shooting, etc. Now let me ask the in- 

 dulgent readers of Forest and Stream whether such a 

 law has not a greater tendency to weaken rather than to 



