PROHIBITED METHODS OF HUNTING. 
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The restrictions against permitting dogs to run at large are such as 
relate to allowing them to roam in localities where they may disturb 
game. In Idaho. Elaine. New Hampshire, and Vermont the posses- 
sion of deerhoun4s within the State is made unlawful, and New York 
prohibits their possession in Adirondack Park. The use of ferrets 
and weasels in hunting i^bbits and hares is interdicted in a fe\7 States. 
CONDITIONS. 
Trapping, snaring, and netting are prohibited b}' many States, which 
recognize that these methods cause rapid extermination of game. 
Commission houses sometimes encourage the trapping of quail, as the 
game is in better condition for sale when trapped than when shot; but 
this is very properly discountenanced, and some States make it an 
offense to offer for sale birds which show no evidence of having been 
taken otherwise than by trapping. Several States specifically pro- 
hibit the use of grain or other food that has been soaked in opium or 
other narcotics, or in poison, for the purpose of stupef^^ing or killing 
birds. Night shooting is treated under two heads — big game and water 
fowl. In the different laws night is variously defined, but it usually is 
designated as from one hour after sunset to one hour before sunrise. 
Killing in the snow includes what is known as 'crusting' big game, or 
shooting it when it is 'yarded,' and tracking and shooting rabbits and 
upland birds when the ground is snow covered. The various restric- 
tions, both in regard to outfits and concerning conditions of hunting, 
are shown in the following table: 
Prohibited inethoth of JmrdiiKj. 
[Crosses ( x ) indicate simple 
prohibitions; figures indicate qualifled prohibition 
corresponding footnotes.] 
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