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THE AMERICAN MOOSE 



should be a bag limit; the second should be laws 

 protecting females and calves. Extending the 

 protection to spike-horns would tend to obviate 

 the risk of cows being shot by mistake, and would 

 deprive sportsmen of no trophies of great interest 

 or value. The hunting season should be limited 

 by law, protecting moose through the season of 

 deep snows, and through the summer, when they 

 are compelled to take refuge in the water. If 

 further protection is needed, hunting in the rutting 

 season should be forbidden. If it is desired to 

 discourage market hunting, in the interest of 

 sportsmen, the sale of game, except on payment 

 of a substantial license fee, may be forbidden. 

 In some places the sale of all game is prohibited, 

 as well as its export. 



By the aid of protective measures such as these, 

 the numbers of moose have greatly increased in 

 many portions of the moose's range, and the 

 animals have spread into unoccupied territory, 

 from which they had perhaps been driven by their 

 natural enemies, now exterminated. 



An illustration of the value of protective legisla- 

 tion, followed by enforcement of the law, is afforded 

 by the reports of the Game Commissioners of Nova 

 Scotia for 1913 and 1914. In these reports figures 

 are given showing the kill of moose in the Province 



