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THE AMERICAN MOOSE 



At that time a law in Nova Scotia provided that 

 " any person or party of huntsmen who kill a moose 

 or caribou shall carry the flesh thereof out of the 

 woods within ten days after killing the animal." 

 For violation of this law a fine of from fifty to two 

 hundred dollars was imposed.^ Under the game or- 

 dinance of Yukon Territory also a fine not exceed- 

 ing five hundred dollars may be imposed on any 

 person who, having killed a moose or other game 

 animal, fails to use the meat for food, or to cause 

 it to be used for food, or to be offered for sale in 

 some market within the Territory. A law of this 

 tenor in most moose-hunting countries would tend 

 to protect game in the less accessible places, leaving 

 the territory where the problem of transportation 

 would be most diflScult as a sort of refuge, where 

 the animals could live and breed in comparative 

 safety. This remote territory would of course 

 serve as a source of supply, from which the animals 

 would spread into the country more easily reached 

 by tote team or canoe. 



A modification of the Nova Scotia law might be 

 desirable, under which the amount of meat which 

 the hunter should be required to carry from the 

 woods should be limited to fifty per cent, of the 



^Revised Statutes of Nova Scotia, 1900, chap. loi, sec. 3. The ten 

 days* limitation seems unnecessarily short when game is killed in 

 November, but it has since been reduced to seven days. 



