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resident, shall take out licenses, the cost of which 
will be $20.50. If a resident of the State for 
over six months and a citizen, the charge shall 
be $1.10. 
New Jersey Game Law. 
Synopsis of acts of the New Jersey Legis¬ 
lature relating to fish and game adopted at the 
session of 1913, all of which are now in effect: 
Chapter 36.—Prohibits the placing of any rye 
or food in salt water within 400 feet of any 
ice, marsh or meadow, bar or bank, or heaped 
sea weed not covered with water, for the pur¬ 
pose of decoying water wildfowl so that the 
same may be shot at while feeding; also pro¬ 
hibits the shooting at water wildfowl while feed¬ 
ing where food of any kind is known to have 
been sown, deposited or placed. 
Chapter 55.—Open season for black bass, 
Oswego bass, white bass, calico bass, crappie 
or pike perch, from June 15 to Nov. 30, both 
dates inclusive. Open season for pike and 
pickerel. May 20 to Nov. 30, both dates inclusive. 
Chapter 56.—Provides that hatchery raised 
trout may be sold at any time for food purposes 
if properly tagged, and said tag shall be removed 
only by the consumer. (Open season for brook 
trout, April i to July 15, Iioth dates inclusive.) 
Chapter 73.—Prohibits the hunting of water 
wildfowl from any sandbar not covered by 
water. 
Chapter 114.—Permits regularly organized or 
incorporated associations holding what is com¬ 
monly known as “field trials,’’ but only upon 
license obtained from the board of fish and game 
commissioners. 
Chapter 120.—Open season for quail, rabbit, 
squirrel, only the male English or ring-necked 
pheasant, ruffed grouse, prairie chicken, wild 
turkey or Hungarian partridge, from Nov. 10 
to Dec. 15, both dates inclusive. Penalty for 
taking any of the aliove between October 10 
and Nov. 9, both dates inclusive, $100. 
Open season for woodcock, Oct. 10 to Dec. 
15, both dates inclusive. 
Chapter 126.—Unlawful by moonlight or 
with the air of any artificial light to shoot or 
kill any skunk, mink, muskrat or otter, or to 
take any of the foregoing except by means of 
a trap, or to disturb or destroy any muskrat 
lodge. 
Open season for trapping skunk, mink, musk¬ 
rat or otter, Nov. 15 to April i following, both 
dates inclusive. 
Chapter 135.—Unlawful to sell any squirrel, 
deer, game bird or song bird, but ducks, geese, 
brant and rabbit are excepted; provided that 
black and mallard ducks, pheasants and de£r 
raised on game preserves or coming from an¬ 
other State may be sold at all times if properly 
tagged. 
Chapter 147.—Provides for the issuance of 
a license to any person desiring to engage in 
the business of raising and selling domesticated 
English ring-necked. Mongolian and other pheas¬ 
ants, mallard and black ducks and deer, or any 
of them, in a wholly inclosed preserve. Cost 
of license, $5 yearly. Licenses heretofore 
granted at $25 each remain in force until Dec. 
31, 1916. 
Chapter 157.—Unlawful to hunt with a 
hound or firearms, or to go into the woods or 
fields with a hound or firearms, except only 
during the season for quail, etc., but this pro¬ 
hibition does not interfere with hunting for 
snipe, woodcock and deer in the legal season 
therefor. By special permission of the Board, 
foxes may be hunted with hounds from Dec. 15 
to March 30, the last date mentioned inclusive. 
Chapter 162.—Prohibits the taking of any 
lobster in Cape May county, within three nauti¬ 
cal miles of the coast line for five years. 
Chapter 176.—Unlawful to take in any part of 
the State any crappie or calico bass measuring 
less than si.x inches. 
Chapter 186.—Unlawful to manufacture, sell, 
barter, loan, give, buy, or have in possession, or 
use or shoot any air gun, spring gun or pistol 
or other weapon of similar nature, in which the 
propelling force is spring or air, ejecting a 
bullet or missile smaller than three-eighths of 
an inch in diameter with sufficient force to in¬ 
jure a person. (This is a general act of the 
State, the enforcement of which does not de¬ 
volve upon the fish and game commission.) 
Chapter 248.—Prohibits taking of striped 
bass in salt or fresh waters by means of a net 
except from Nov. 15 to March i, both dates 
inclusive, and prohibits the catching, killing or 
possession at any time any striped bass less than 
ten inches in length. 
Chapter 303.—Authorizes the board of fish 
and game commissioners to give permission to 
kill and destroy the European starling when the 
governing body of any municipality shall decide 
that they are so numerous in such municipality 
as to become a nuisance. 
Chapter 307.—Makes it unlawful to fish with 
pound nets in any of the fresh or salt waters of 
the State, excepting Atlantic Ocean, Sandy Hook 
and Raritan Bay, and that portion of Delaware 
Bay within Cape May county. 
Important Changes Made in California 
Game Laws. 
BY GOLDEN GATE. 
The fortieth Legislature is now at an end 
after having passed a number of measures of 
interest to sportsmen and others interested in 
the conservation of game. Early in the session 
a strong effort was made to remove ducks from 
the list of game that might be sold and the con¬ 
troversy over this created quite a stir. That 
those interested in this measure becoming a law 
gained a substantial victory may be judged from 
the fact that the act that was passed provides 
that wild ducks may be sold only during the 
month of November instead of through the sea¬ 
son of four and a half months as formerly, and 
the limit has been reduced from twenty-five a 
day and fifty a week to fifteen a day and thirty 
a week. Rabbits and wild geese may be sold, 
but no other protected game. The limit on val¬ 
ley quail has been lowered from twenty a day 
and 140 a week to fifteen a day and thirty a 
week, the same as on ducks. The daily limit 
on mountain cpiail is ten, on doves twenty and 
on grouse four. 
The new law provides that the open season 
on ducks in districts one and six shall be from 
Oct. I to March i, two weeks longer than for¬ 
merly. In the other four districts it will be from 
Oct. i to Feb. 15. 
The deer season has also been changed and 
will be open in districts one and three between 
Aug. 15 and Oct. 15. It formerly lasted until 
Oct. 30. In districts two and five, it will be 
from August i to Oct. i, and in four and seven 
from Sept, i to Nov. i. 
The trout season in districts one and four 
will open April i and extend to Nov. 30, in¬ 
stead of Nov. I, as formerly. An important 
change has been made in the steelhead trout 
law in that the use of nets is prohibited. For¬ 
merly the fish could be taken by this means in 
tide water. A closed season has been placed 
on fishing in and above tide water during Janu¬ 
ary, February and March, but tide water fish¬ 
ing will be allowed during December. Salmon 
fishing is allowed the year around, but during 
the season closed to market fishermen not more 
than three a day may be taken by line or spear. 
Nessmuk. 
Lockport, N. Y.— Editor Forest and Stream: 
My last week’s Forest and Stream was only 
received this evening, and then through the 
courtesy of B. V. Covert, to whom it was de¬ 
livered by mistake, with his own, Saturday when 
he was away from home. I have read the final 
chapter of Nessmuk’s last story and the poem, 
“At Anchor’’ from Forest Runes, which I have 
read much since the story was commenced; and 
that reminds me that about forty years ago I 
received a communication from Nessmuk in 
answer to a letter I sent to him through Forest 
AND Stream, which had published an article of 
his about the price of hunting dogs. Someone 
had paid $250 for a dog, and Nessmuk claimed 
that no dog was worth that amount. That the 
best dog he ever saw was a black pointer that 
Frank Delong, of Lockport, N. Y., paid only 
$10 for. 
I had just had some experience with a black 
pointer, and I wrote Nessmuk about it. He 
wrote that he lived in Lockport in 1845 (prob¬ 
ably after the “Contraband Incident’’) and one 
day he borrowed Mr. Delong’s dog to go for 
quail south of the (then) village of Lockport; he 
said the dog duly found the quail, and he (Ness¬ 
muk) duly missed the first two birds. The dog 
was duly disgusted, and putting his tail between 
his legs, started for home. 
I afterward learned that George W. Sears 
(Nessmuk) worked at his trade (shoemaking) 
on the second floor of an old wooden building 
on the corner of Main and Market streets, after¬ 
ward occupied by an old shooting friend (also 
a shoemaker), John R. Macdonald, with whom 
I had many hunting trips for quail, woodcock 
and snipe. J. L. Davison. 
To Kill Rats. 
Mighty few country places but what have 
their full quota of rodents—poultry killers, grain 
destroyers, and disease carriers. 
No one need suffer from rattish depredation 
if they will use the following prescription: Soak 
balls of cotton in carbon bisulphide, drop into 
the rat holes and go away. Carbon bisulphide, 
being heavier than air, will search out every 
nook and cranny of the hole, and after follow¬ 
ing Mr. Rat to his last stand, overpowers and 
strangles him to death. 
Oregon has enacted a no-sale-of-game law, 
and her Legislature has importuned California 
to do likewise. 
