RESTRICTIONS AS TO PURPOSES FOR WHICH GAME MAY BE 
KILLED. 
Not only are limits set to the time for killing game and the methods 
of hunting, but in many instances the killing or possession of game for 
certain purposes is prohibited. Restrictions of this kind may be con 
veniently considered under the four heads 'Market hunting." 'Killing 
for hides,' 'Possession and storage.' and 'Sale.' 
MARKET HTJNTING. 
Traffic in game, especially since the advent of railroads in the West 
and the introduction of modern methods of refrigeration, has grown 
to large proportions, and in several instances threatens with extermi- 
nation some of the most valuable game in the United States. The 
amount killed for sport or for food, however large it may be, is small in 
comparison with that killed for market. With a view to preventing 
extermination of their game, some States have prohibited killing for 
sale, and others the sale of all game taken within the State or pro- 
tected by its laws. Ohio prohibits killing for sale of squirrel, quail, 
ruflfed grouse or pheasant, prairie chicken, wild turkey, Mongolian. 
English or ring-neck pheasant, and woodcock; Pennsylvania, deer, 
elk. quail, partridge, grouse, pheasant, wild turkey, and woodcock: 
Indiana, quail, ruffed grouse, and pinnated grouse; Iowa, these and 
woodcock; Tennessee, deer, quail or pailridge; Wj'oming, big game. 
The Province of Ontario prohibits the employment of any one to kill 
game for sale; and Nebraska and the Indian Territory the slaughter of 
game for any purpose except food. In many States that do not abso- 
lutely prohibit killing for sale, such killing is greatlv restricted by 
laws requiring hunters to secure licenses, and limiting the number 
that may be killed (see pp. 44-50). Oregon requires nonresident 
market hunters to obtain a special license, the fee for which is ^10. 
Georgia has a general law forbidding killing for sale, except under 
license, but it is not operative in any count}' until recommended by 
the grand jury of that county. 
KILLING FOR HIDES. 
Killing for hides may be regarded as a special phase of market 
hunting and one which has proved extremely destructive to big 
game in certain States of the West. Of late 3'ears legislation ha.r. 
51 
