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A YEAR WITH THE BIRDS 
Ducks, Geese, Snipe, Plover, Rail, and Coot may be killed 
from September ist to April 30th. 
Gray Squirrels may be killed during October and Novem- 
ber only. 
Rabbits may be killed in October, November, and Decem- 
ber only. 
It is forbidden to use ferrets, snares, nets, or traps for wild 
game at any season. 
It is forbidden to kill Deer in this State. 
Hunting or Shooting on Sunday is forbidden. 
It is unlawful to kill Fish Hawks, Eagles, Gulls, Terns, 
Loons, Divers, Grebes, Doves, Wild Pigeons, Y ellowhammers, 
Meadowlarks, or Herons at any time. (These are not game 
birds in the reading of the law.) 
All who break these laws are liable to fines varying from 
$10 to $100, with officer’s fee of $20 added to the cost. 
CRUELTY TO WILD ANIMALS 
There are many children of foreign birth who would not 
break the laws of this country if they knew of them, but per- 
haps do so innocently because they either do not know, or do 
not speak English well enough to understand them fully, and 
think that in this country where they have so much liberty they 
are free to do as they like about everything. 
There are also those American, I am sorry to say, as well 
as foreign born, who have a cruel streak in them, and first show 
it by cruelty to helpless, harmless animals. This should be 
stopped, as much for their good as future citizens as for the 
welfare of the wild animals themselves, for the child who will 
kill or torture a dumb beast has the germs of murder in him 
that may later in a fit of passion break out toward a fellow 
being. 
What do you think of boys — yes, and girls, for I saw one 
this spring — who would spend an afternoon in stoning the 
hanging nest of an Oriole until the nestlings, dying, stopped 
their pitiful cries and fell to the ground in the rags of their 
wonderful home, while their parents circled about in agony? 
Sad to say these were American born children, too, who very 
well knew right from wrong. 
When children have this evil mind the laws of the state 
must be used to cleanse, just as the law may enter the house and 
do away with contagious disease. Cruelty is often as infec- 
tious as sickness ; and it is, in fact, a sickness of the mind. 
