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seemed to be injured, although the drop 
is about sixty feet. At this time there 
are without question thousands of carp 
in the basin. In fact, the bed is fairly 
paved with carp. 
We have been trying to devise some 
method of ridding the basin of these fish, 
believing that the trout will not do well 
when there are so many carp. Can you 
offer any suggestion along this line? 
Noting the list of baits suggested by 
Mr. Rhead, I wonder if he has ever tried 
canned sweet corn ? It is used with suc- 
cess in these waters. 
A few weeks ago Mr. Seymour Stew- 
art, of this city, took a five or six-pound 
carp with fly. This fish struck at about 
8 o’clock P. M. standard time. Last 
week I had the pleasure of taking a 
slightly smaller carp with fly, at about 
seven o’clock A. M. Said fish struck 
like a brown trout and until I saw it I 
thought I had a trout. 
At the time, I was fishing swift water, 
with a silver-body fly. The fish hit the 
fly on the surface, jumped two or three 
times and then took out thirty or forty 
feet of line. When I snubbed it, it 
rushed all of ninety feet, directly toward 
me, so rapidly that I had to back up. It 
then sulked on the bottom and seemed 
to have given up running. But when I 
gave it the butt, it came to life. Finally 
I got it to the net and only then did it 
act “like a carp.” Instead of running 
away from the net, it allowed me to 
make a couple of false moves, drag the 
frame of the net across its body, and 
otherwise insult it. All without trying 
to get away. 
Will appreciate any suggestion you 
may care to make regarding the removal 
of these fish from this trout pool. 
M. E. Scripture, Jr., New York. 
T he above letter about carp is not 
only interesting but informing. I 
heard of carp being caught on flies, but 
never did it — perhaps because I have not 
tried. I shall do so. I tried to get some 
big shad under the bridge at East 
Branch on the Delaw^are last week 
where I fished for bass, testing my lures. 
I did succeed in getting them to run up 
at the fly, but not to take it. Sorry I did 
not have time to carry on further experi- 
ments. That is a field yet to be covered, 
for big shad on the fly would doubtless 
prove almost as great sport as salmon 
fishing. 
I don't think carp will harm trout — 
the nature of its food is quite different — 
but they do eat trout spawn, also bass 
spawn, which is not very likely with 
your case unless trout spawn in the dam. 
Trout do spawn on beds of lakes, and 
catfish get the greater part. 
The only remedy where carp are a 
known menace to so-called better game 
fish is to both net them and encourage 
fishing for them. The former method is 
rather unwise, unless done by trust- 
worthy people, otherwise more trout 
woifld be netted than carp. 
I’ve tried green sweet corn from the 
cob, also puffed wLeat and rice as bait — 
but, like bread, they get nibbled off by 
little nibblers. 
Louis Rite.\d, New York. 
OPEN SEASONS FOR GAME IN 1922 
A SYNOPSIS OF THE LAWS REGULATING THE TAKING OF GAME 
TABULATED IN HANDY FORM FOR THE BENEFIT OF SPORTSMEN 
[Compiled by George A. Lawyer, Chief V. S. Game Warden, and Frank L. Earnshaw, Assistant, InUrstate Commerce in Game, Bureau of Biological Survey] 
ermr. OPEN SEASONS HERE SHOWN ARE INCL’OSIVE OF BOTH DATES. When the season is closed for a fixed period ^e date terminating the closed seMonw giveu. 
The seasons in certain counties of North Carolina may be had on application to the Secretary, Audubon Society, Raleigh, N. C. Local exceptions m Idaho, Tennessee, and Virginia wiU be published in 
The S?m^‘‘ra^it^°inc?u^eB hare; “quail,” the bird known as “partridge” in the South; “grouse” includes Canada grouse, sharp-tailed grouse, ^ed ^ouse North and "pheasant” 
in the South), and all other members of the family except prairie chickens, ptarmigan, and sage hens; mtroduced phewant is restricted to the Old World phe^anU. fT^rr. thia 
PERSONS ARE^ ADVISED to secure from State gome commisaioners full text of game laws m States where hunting ^ contemplated, as provision of minor importance are omitted from this poster. 
“Game Laws for 1922,” and a directory of game protection officials may be had free on application to the Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, i). u. 
•• Uadcr the re^ulatiooe for the proteclioe of migratory birds the eeasoD is closed on band-tailed pigeon, e\ran,_wood duck, eider duck, auk, auklet, bittern, crane, fulmar, gaonet, grebe, 
puillcmot, cull beron, jaeper, loon, murre, petrel, puffin, enearwater, tern, aud all sborebirds (except woodcock, Wilson snipe or jac^nipe, black-beHied and polden plovers, and yellowlegs) 
in the United States and^Canada.’ Owing to damage to rice crops in the South the Secretary of Apriculture has ordered that bobolinks, commonly known as reedbirds or rice birds, mav he 
kill(^ by shootin" between half an hour before euarise and sunset of any day from September 1 to October 30. inclusive, in New Jersey. Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and the District of 
Columbia, and from August 10 to November lo. inclusive, in Vircirun, North Carolina. South Carolina, Georpia. and Florida; reedbirds so killed shall not be sold, shipped tor s-alc, or wantonly 
wasted or'dcstroyed. but may be used for food by the persons killing them or transported to hospitals and charitable institutions for use as food. 
Alaska.— OiriAou on Kcnai Peniosuli, and sheep on Kenai Peninsula east of 
Long l.iO® 1023 Killing of females and young of mountnin sheep and 
deer, and /nountmn pool kids and caribou /awns South of Arctic Circle, pro- 
hibited Coni east of Cook Inlet and Susilna River (except Kenai 
Peninsula cast of Long. 150*. Mar 1, 1923) and in southeastern Alaska, 
east of Lone. Ml® Aug 20-Ocl. 31 Larne brown henr^ noulh Lat. 62®, 
Oct. 1-July 1, north, iinproleciod Dccr on Duke, Gravina, Kodiak, 
Kruzof, Lonp. San Juan, Suemez, Zarembo Hawkins, UinchiDbrook, and 
Montague isl.\nds, 1923. 
Arizona. — Dobwh^le quail, no open season. i/onrning dove, Sept. 1-Dec. 15; 
whiU-wivffs, July 15-Dec "U 
Arkansas. — Gobbler, additional open season, Mar l-.'lay 1. 
California. — Deer (male, escepi spike lujck), in Districts 2, 2J, and 3, Aug. 
I-Scpt. M. in I'lHlri. i 4, Sept IC-Oct. 15; in Districts 1, 1}, 4i, 23, 24, 
25, and 20, Sept. 1-Oct 15 Mountain and valleij quail, in District IJ, 
Oct. 15-Dec. 15 Bobnhiu quail, in State, no open season. Sage hen, in 
District 4L DO open season. For counties in each game district see “Uame 
Lews, 1922 " 
Connecticut. — D'cr, owner of agricultural lands, member of family, or em- 
ployee, may kill with shotgun on own lands deer destroying fruit trees 
or growinc crops, but such killing must be reported to commissioners 
within 12nours Coot {mud hen), gallinule, Oct. 1-Dec 31. 
Delaware. — Dove, Newcastle County, no open season 
District of. Col um bia. — llunting permitted only on marshes of Elastern 
Branch, north of Anacostia bndge, and on Virginia bliore of Potomac. 
Florida. — Squirrel, \o Escambia County, Oct. 15-Mar 1, in Holmes and 
Walton Counties,’ Oct, 20-Mar I English pheasant, in Escambia County, 
DO open season. Hunting prohibited on Pino Island 
Georgia. — Fox squirrel, unprotected. 
Idaho. — Deer, mountain goat, in Adams, Boise, Bonneville, Butte, Camaj, 
Clark, Elmore, Gooding, Jefferson. Lincoln, Madisou, Power, and Teton 
Counties, Oct. l-Nov. 30, derr, in Benewah, Blaine, Bonner, Boundary, 
Clearwater, Custer, Idaho, Kootenai, Latah, Lemhi. Lewis, Nez Perce, 
Shoshone, and Valley Counties, Oct. 1-Nov 15, in Bear tjike. Franklin, 
and (Oneida Counties, Oct. 15-Nov 1. elk, in Bingham, Bonneville, 
Clark, I'reraoDl, and Teton Counties, Nov 15-Nov 30, elk, mountain 
goal, in Cleanvaler ami Idaho Counties, Oct. 1-Nov 15; deer, elk. moun- 
tain goat, DO open ee-asoD, except as above (See “Game Laws, 1922, ’’ for 
local taws on upland game birds.) 
Indiana. — Cool, galUnule, Sept. 16-Dec. 20 
Kansas. — Fox squirrel, Sept. 1-Dec. 31, other squirrels, no open season. 
Louisiana. — Deer, jn Beauregard, Allen, Rapides, La Salle, Winii, Jacksou, 
Lincoln, Union, and in all parishes north and west thereof. Sept. IR-Dec 
31; in rest of statu, Oct. 1-Jan. 15. (Deer season &xcd by cummissinn.) 
T\irkey Gobbler, tiov 15-Apr I ProirK c/iiricn. p/irusant, coramunicati* 
with conservation commission Doer. Federal sea.<win. Sept 16-Dec 31. 
unless present Slate law is changed, doves may be hunleu only Oct. 16- 
Dcc 31 
Maine —Deer, in Hancock and Washington Counties, Oct. 15-Dcc 14 (deer j 
hunting limited to residents, Dec. 1-14). in Androecoppin, Cumberland, | 
Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc, waldo, and York Counties, Nov 
1-Nov 30; in rest of State, Oct. 1-Nov 30. (Sco also “Gamo Laws, 
1922 ■') 
Maryland. — Squirrel, Sept, 1-Oct, 15 and Nov 10-Jan 1. except owner or 
lonanl may shoot squirrels on own land Sci>t. 1-Jaii. I ll'iM (ur/tcy, 
Garrett County, Nov 10.1924, 
MasBachusetts. — European hare, in Berkshire Countv, unprotected Ouai/. 
in Dukes, Essex, Hampden, Middlp.spx, and Nantuckol, July I, 1925 
J'hea.i:ant. Dintsiod of Fisbenes and Game 6xos open reason fVnter/ou l, 
iu Barnstable, Bristol, Dukea, anu Nantucket Coujilios. Oct. 1-D ec 3| 
■f < ri gon.— Director of conservation may shorten or close season or other- 
vise restrict the taking of any species of game. Snowshoe c'-jack rabbit, 
OcV. 15-Uor 1 
additionau rhovisions and cxcertions 
Minnesota. — RuJ/ed grouse, Oct. 15-Nov 30; while-breasted or sharp-tailed 
grouse, Sept. 16, 1923 Plover, no open season. 
Mississippi.— Seasons subject to change by Boards of Supervisors, but 
change? relating to migratory birds must not be mconsistent with Fed- 
eral regulations Communicate with sheriff or county clerk, at county 
scat. 
Montana. — Deer, in Carter. Custer, Dawson, Gallatin, GarGeld. McCone, 
Phillips, Powder River, Richland, Roosevelt, Rosebud, Stillwater, 
Teton, 'i'alley, Yellowstone, and part of Fergus County, Oct. 1, 1924. 
Elk. in Flathead, Glacier, Madison, Park, Pondera, Sweet Grass. Teton, 
and parts of Gallaliu, Lewis and Clark (except uorth of North Fork, I 
Dearborn River, Nov C-16), lilissoula, and Powell Counties, Oct. 1^ 
Nov 15; in rest of State, no open season. Grouse, prairie chicken, in 1 
Flathead. Lincoln, Missoula, and Sanders Counties, Oct. 1-Oct. 15; m | 
rest of State, no open season. 
Nevada. — Deer, antelope, quail, grouse, and pheasant, seasons fixed by county 
commiseioncre, who may also close or shorten dove season. 
New Hampshire. — Deer, in Coos County, Oct. 15-Nov. 30; in Carroll County, 
Nov L5-Dec. 15; in Grafton County, Nov. l-Dec. 15; in rest of Stale, 
Dec. 1-Dec. 31. 
New York. — Commission may shorten open season on game (see “Game 
Laws. 1922"). Deer (male), in Adirondacks, Oct. 15-Nov. 15, except in 
towns of Jackson, Salem, and Wlulo Creek, Washinelon County, Nov, 7- 
Nov. 19. in Columbia. Delaware, Greene, Orange, Rensselaer, Sullivan, j 
and Ulster Counties, Nov 1-Nov. 15; on own land in Dutchess County, \ 
Nov. l-Nov. 15- Shoiguo only may be used in Dutcliessand Rensse- 
laer Counties. Grouse, Oct. 15-Nov 30, quail, Nov. 15-Nov. 30, in 
Oranee, Sullivan, and Wrstclirstor Counties. Wntrr/owl, south main 
line New York Central and Hudson Railroad from Buffalo to Albany, 
and Boston and Albvinv Ilailruad from Albany to Massachusetts 
I boundary, Oct. 16-Dec. 31. 
I Long Island . — Varying hare, Oct. 15-Mar. 1; cottontail rabbit, Nov. 1- 
Dec 31. 
North Carolina. — For local laws, apply to Secretary, Audubon Society, 
Raleigh. N. C. Migratory birds, county season date controls when it 
opens the season later or closes it earlier than the Federal Regulations. 
North Dakota. — White-breasted and sharp-tailed grouse. Sept. 16-Oct. 16; t 
ruffed grouse, in Bottineau, Cavalier, Pembina, and Roulette Counties i 
only, Oct. 1-Oct. 10. Cool, gaUinule, Sept. 16-Dec. 31. 
Oklahoma. — Bear in Blaine, Caddo, Comanche, Kiowa, and Major Counties, 
no open season; rest of Stale, unprotected. 
Oregon. — Ea.'^t of Cascades: Deer (malel, in Union and Wallowa Counties. 
Sent, H)-Nov. 10. Quail (except bob>vhiie), in Klamath County, Oct. 
1-Oct. 10. Prairie chicken, in Sherinan, Union, and Wasco Counties, 
Oct 1-Oct 15. Chinese pheasant, in Baker, Grant, Malheur, I’matilla, | 
Union, and Wallowa Counties, Oct, 1-Oct. S. aud in Hood River and ' 
Wasco Counties, Nov. l-Nov, 10. Sage hen, Aiie. 1-Aug. 31. Grouse, io 
Union and Wallowa Counties, Sept. l-Nov. 10. 
West of Cascades: Bobn hiie quail, Oct 15-Oct .31, other quail, in Coos, 
Curry, Jackson, and Josopliino Counties only. Oct. 1-Oct. 31. Sootg, or 
blue grouse, in Douglas, Jackson, and Josephine Counties, Sept. 1-Sept. 
30. Chinese phea.<!atit in Coos, Curry, and Ji»sephiiie Counties, no open 
season, balance of district, Ort. l5-Oci 31, 
Ponuflylvanin. — Coot, gaUinnU, Sept. l6-Nov. 30, 
TennesBoe. — Deer, in Bledsoe, Cumberland, Grun<lv, Marion, Sequatchie, 
aud Van Buren Counties, Nov, 1-Dec. 10; in Cheatham atul Dickson 
Counties. Dec 20-Dec. 31 io rest of Stale, unprotecteiJ- Gobbler, also 
Apr. 1-25. (See ‘‘Game Laws, 1922,” for local seoft'ns ) 
Texas.— Wild turkey, in Brook?. Cain< rnn, Hidalgo, .lira Hogg, Kenedy. 
McMullen, SLirr, and WilKiey Counties, Nov 1. 1926. 
Utah. — Deer, nonresident not permitted to hunt deer Water/oul, in Kano. 
San Juan, and Washinglon^Countics, Oct. 1-Jon 15; duck, lu Fish Lake 
Game Preserve. Oct l-Nov 30. 
Virginia. — Deer, in Chesterfield, Mecklenburg, Prince George, and Suriy , 
Couotiee, Oct. 1-Jon. 1. in Buckingham, Cumberland, Fluvanna, an^ : 
Goochland Counties. Nov 1-Jan, 15, in Bath and Highland Counties, i 
Boards of Superv’isors prescribo a 10-day open season in November, 
during which one buck over one year of age may be taken. £/lr, pro- 
tected in national forest areas. Quail, grouse, irild turkey, west of Blue 
Ridge, Nov 1-Dec. 31. Cool, mudhen, gnllinule, Nov. l-Jan. 1, except 
oil Back Bay, Princess Anne County, Nov. 1-Jan. 31. (For other loc^ 
exceptions, see "Game Laws, 1922. "1 
Washington. — West of Cascades; does in Clallam. Skagit, Snohomish, and 
Whatcom Counties, no open season. 
West Virginia. — Coot, gnllinule. Sept. 16-Dec. 31. 
Wisconsin . — Deer (male), in Pierce, Barron, Eau Claire, Clark, Wood. Lincoln, 
Langlade, Oconto (north of Township 30). and all counties north thereof 
(except Marathon), Nov. ].3-Nov. 22; in Marathon and rest of State, no 
^en season, ^^utrrri, in Dodge, Kenosha, Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Racine, 
Washington, and Waukesha, no open season. Grouse, in Calumet, 
Manitowoc, and Winnebago Counties, no open season. Prairie ehickrn 
{pinnated or sharp-lr.ilfd grouse), in Barron, Calumet, Crawford, Dane, 
Dunn. Fond du Lac, Grant, Green, Iowa. Jefferson. Kenosha, l aCrosse, 
Lafayette, Lincoln, M.aniiowoc, Milwaukee, Monroe. Oneida. Ozaukee. 
Polk. Portage, Racine. Richland, Rock. Sauk, Vernon, Walworth. 
Wa.«hingtoii, Waukesha, Waupaca, and Winnebago Counties, no open 
eoa.?r>n. Duck, coot, gallinule. Sept. 16-Dec. 20; goose and 5ron(, Sept. 
16-Dec. 31. 
Wyoming. — Elk, in Lincoln, Park, and Fremont (except between Roaring 
Fork Creek and Big Sandy River on west elope of B’md River Mountains 
in Bridger National Forest, and north of Big Wind River and south of 
Sweetwater River, no open season). Sept. 15-Nov. 15; in rest of State, no 
open season. Sheep (mature male with boms not less than one-balf curl), 
io Lincoln, Park, and Fremont Counties only. Sept. 15-Nov. b5. Bull 
moose nod buck antelope may be bunted under special permit, Scpl. 15- 
Oci. 31, in areas desi^alcd by commission. 
Alberta. — All big game must have boros at least 4 inches long. Deer, moose, 
an<l caribou, in Forest Reserves of Rocky Mounlains, under special 
liccDso, Scpl. 1-Oct. 31. * 
British Columbia. — Open seasons on big game and upland game fixed 
annually by Order-io*Council, which mav bo obtained from Secret^*, 
Game Conserx-ation Board, Vancouver, iL C. Waler/owl. rail, fTtLon 
snipe, blaek-breasUd and golden plovers, yelloulegs. in Northern and 
Eastern Districts, Sept. 2-Dcc. 17. and in Western District, north of 
53d parallel, Sept. 9-Dec. 24; j7on,v, brant. Western District, south 53d 
parallel. Nov ll-Feb.26; other migratory game eoutb of 53d parallel, 
Ocl 2l-Fvb 5. Northern District includes Atlin Electoral District, and 
north of main line of Grand Trunk Pacific Railway and east summit 
Lascadcs Eastern District, east summit Casiiadcs and south Grand Trunk 
Parific Railway District, west summit Cascades and south .Atlin 
Electoral District. 
New Brunswick. — Deer, on Grand Manan, Campobello, and Deer Islands, no 
open season. Partridge, season may be opeiied by order in council. 
Northwest Territories. — .Additional season on curi5ou and sheep, Aug. l- 
Oct. 1. Feiunle cnnioii, mountain sheep, or mountflin goat with young 
at loot, and their young at fi>ot, no oi'eo wasoo. Governor General in 
Council may, by regulatiou, alter seasons. 
Nova Scotia. — Dio game, on A'ape Breton lelanil, no open eeaAio. CunMu 
imaleL in Inverness and Victoria Counties only. Huffed grouse . t)ct. 15- 
Nov 14. other grouse, no open season. WaUr/oul. ruif, coot, galhnule, 
in Cumberland County, Sept, 15-Dec. 31 
Ontario. — Derr, bull moewe, caribou, uorth of Canadian Government Railway, 
f'ept 15-Nov 1.5; south French aud Mattawa Rivers. Nov 5-Nov. 20; 
north and west French and Mattawa Rivera, and south Canadian Gov- 
ernment Railway. Oci ’.’o-Nov 30 
Quebec.— J/oos«\ south of St Lawrence River, S' pt 20-Dcc. 31. 
Sasikatcbewon. — Deer, (males only), cariftoii, north of Township 34, 
Nov. 15-Dec 14. south of Township 35, no open season. 
Newfoundland.— Coniou. also .Aug. l-Sept. 30. Goose, unprotected. 
Lower Cabfomia . — \_Noriherh Dulrici): Seosops subject to modificatioo by 
Governor. 
