542 
FOREST AND STREAM 
following the wording of the Statute: “Elk, deer, 
pheasants, mallard ducks or black ducks may be 
killed in any manner at any time, but mallard 
ducks or black ducks killed by shooting shall not 
be bought, sold or trafficked in. Any person may 
possess or sell such elk, deer, pheasants or ducks 
for food, as hereinafter set forth.” 
Tagging. 
In order to prevent the smuggling in of wild 
game on the pretense that it was propagated under 
State license, the law provides for proper identi¬ 
fication of all fish and game sold under its provi¬ 
sions. No elk, deer, pheasants or ducks killed and 
intended for sale shall be shipped, transported, 
sold or offered for sale unless each quarter and 
each loin of each carcass of such elk or deer and 
each pheasant or duck shall have been tagged or 
sealed under the supervision of the commission 
with an indestructible tag or seal to be supplied 
by the Commission. Such elk or deer meat and 
such pheasants or ducks, when so tagged, may 
assistance to any other person in taking or at¬ 
tempting to take game or quadrupeds. 
The Commission shall now appoint 125 game 
protectors (the old number was 105), and a very 
important change in the law is the placing of the 
responsible positions of chief game protector, 
deputy chief game protector, division chief pro¬ 
tectors, fisheries protectors, the protector for the 
St. Lawrence river and the other game protect¬ 
ors provided for by this section, in the competi¬ 
tive class of the classified civil service. 
As heretofore, the dog lovers may enjoy sport 
afield. They may hunt birds and quadrupeds 
aided by their favorite animal friends, unless spe¬ 
cifically prohibited by law. A duly organized as¬ 
sociation for the protection of game may have 
field trials for dogs at any time, upon obtaining 
written permission from the Commission. 
A licensed hunter may take two wild deer in 
the open season. He may transport when accom¬ 
panying or possess for that purpose one carcass 
written or printed notice, describing the premises- 
and warning all persons against hunting or fish¬ 
ing or trespassing thereon, makes it a misde¬ 
meanor for the person so served to take such- 
game there or to trespass there for the purpose 
of hunting. 
State Game Refuges. 
Any State lands, except those in the Adiron- 
dacks or Catskill parks, may be set aside by the 
Commission as a game refuge, by publication of 
notices similar to those used by private individu¬ 
als and clubs, and by maintaining sign boards on 
the property. The state may purchase for this 
purpose in any town, outside of these parks, lands 
containing not less than 100 acres, or purchase 
the shooting and fishing rights in connection with 
such lands, and may establish there a game 
refuge, after publishing and posting the notices. 
Of course, no person can lawfully ever disturb- 
any fish or game upon such lands or trespass- 
thereon as long as the State owns them, or until 
High Falls and Rapids on Au Sable River Near Lake Placid, N. Y. 
be possessed, sold or offered for sale at any time. 
Every game protector or person designated who 
has tagged or sealed such meat or game birds 
must file a written report thereof with the Com¬ 
mission within 5 days, and said tags or seals must 
remain affixed until the quarters or loins of such 
meat or the carcasses of such pheasants or ducks 
shall haVe been wholly consumed. 
The sale of any such meat or bird not at the 
time having affixed to it this tag or seal shall 
constitute a violation of the law. A hotel, restau¬ 
rant or boarding house keeper or retail meat 
dealer or a club may sell portions of a quarter 
or loin of any such elk, deer or the carcass of 
any such birds, so tagged or sealed, to a patron 
or customer for actual consumption, and no 
license shall be required of such person or club. 
The new law defines hunting as, pursuing, kill¬ 
ing, capturing or trapping game and quadrupeds, 
and all lesser acts, such as disturbing, harrying 
or worrying, or placing, setting, drawing or using 
any device commonly used to take game or quad¬ 
rupeds, whether they result in taking or not; and 
includes every attempt to take and every act of 
at any one time, or he can transport the carcass 
through an express company in the usual way. 
Wild deer or venison lawfully taken may be 
possessed from October 1 to November 20, both 
inclusive. A person may possess such deer or 
venison from November 21 to January 1, both in¬ 
clusive, but must first obtain a license from the 
Commission to keep same. This license costs $1. 
Thus a man may keep “his winter meat” for a 
considerable period in perfect security, but it must 
at all times remain marked or tagged by the Com¬ 
mission issuing the license to keep it. 
Hunters who want to try a shot at wild pheas¬ 
ants may do so on the last two Thursdays of next 
October and the first two Thursdays of the fol¬ 
lowing month of November. They can only be 
possessed during that period, and but three male 
birds, no females), may be killed in any year. 
Great protection is afforded to fish, birds or 
quadrupeds in any private park or private lands, 
after legal notices are posted. If these notices 
have been once posted or the land has -been estab¬ 
lished as a private park, personal service upon 
any individual in the name of the owner of a 
the Commission shall formally throw them open 
to all the people. 
We now come down to the interesting subject 
of propagation of strictly fur bearing animals, 
and Section 200 says that “all species of fur bear¬ 
ing animals protected by this Chapter (647) may 
be kept alive in captivity at all times for the pur¬ 
poses of propagation and sale only, provided a 
license so to do shall first have been obtained 
from the Commission. This license costs $5. No 
fur bearing animals shall be thus kept which were 
taken wild during the close season for such fur 
bearing animals. Fur bearing animals lawfully 
kept shall not be disposed of in any way during 
the close season. 
Now, coming down to the wild fur bearers, 
mink and sable may be taken in any manner from 
November 10 to April 20. Raccoons may be cap¬ 
tured day or night between October 1 and April 
20, but cannot be trapped until November 10. 
The open season on wild skunks is from No¬ 
vember 10 to February 10th. If these vermin are 
injuring property or have become a nuisance, they 
(Concluded on page 565.) 
