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FOREST AND STREAM 
[March 13, 1909. 
Game Law Changes. 
Nebraska. 
Nebraska is to have close season on cjuail, 
according to reports just received. House Bill 
No. 224, established the open season from Oct. 
I to Nov. 30 on grouse and prairie chickens; 
Sept. 15 to April 5, on wildfowl; Sept. 15 to 
May I, on jack snipe; July 15 to Aug. 31 oil 
plover; a wholly closed season on quail and 
doves, while squirrels will be shot from Oct. i 
to Nov. 30. 
The game warden may issue licenses to per¬ 
sons to take carp, buffalo and catfish with a 
seine of two-inch mesh during .the open season 
for fishing. These nets must bear a metal tag 
issued by the game warden, and the person 
to whom the license is issued must give a bond 
of $100 to put back any game fish that may be 
taken. It is permitted to spear fish in the Platte 
River ponds above the mouth of the Loup Fork 
after the Platte has begun to dry up. 
In the discussion over the question of pro¬ 
tecting the quail, the farmers fought hard in be¬ 
half of the measure, declaring that the quail 
are most useful to them. 
Connecticut. 
The Connecticut Legislature, or its members, 
seem disposed to tear the game laws of the 
State to pieces. About two dozen different bills 
have been submitted and are now before the 
fish and game committee. They have to do 
with quail, woodcock, ruffed grouse, old world 
pheasants, Hungarian partridges, wildfowl and 
snipe. One bill proposes a close season for all 
upland game birds to Sept. 30, 1912, others 
shorten the present season, one making the 
open season on upland birds from Oct. 15 to 
Nov. 15. House Bill 415 would forbid the kill¬ 
ing of quail until Sept. 30, 1911; Bill No. 81 
makes a close season for quail until Sept, i, 
1914. A Senate bill limits the number of quail 
to five a day and fifty for the year. Another 
Senate bill forbids the killing of Hungarian 
partridge before Oct. i, 1911. 
As to woodcock there is a bill limiting the 
number to five a day and thirty-six a year, an¬ 
other limiting the number to be had in posses¬ 
sion in a day to ten. Bills about wildfowl are 
numerous, and most of them would repeal the 
present laws which forbid shooting ducks in 
the spring. Some of these bills permit the 
residents of certain towns to shoot ducks at 
any hour of the day or night, in the open sea¬ 
son. On the other hand. Bill No. 279 prohibits 
the sale of wild ducks, geese, brant or swan. 
Connecticut sportsmen will do well to watch 
the Legislature and try to prevent the repeal 
of the present duck shooting law. 
Oregon. 
The following synopsis of the game laws of 
Oregon is of interest to all Pacific Coast 
readers. So soon as these laws are printed by 
the State, they will he incorporated as usual in 
the “Game Laws in Brief” : 
Beaver—Closed until January, 1920. 
Buck Deer—Closed between Jan. i and Aug. 
I; between Nov. t and Sept. 15 in Wallowa, 
Union, Baker, Umatilla, Grant, Malheur and 
Harney counties. 
Deer Limit—Five in any one open season. 
Use of dogs, waiting on stands or runways 
prohibited. 
Female deer, spotted fawn, or young deer of 
the first year, elk, mountain sheep and antelope 
—Killing prohibited. 
Ducks—Open season from Oct. 15 to Feb. 
15, except in Multnomah, Columbia and Clat¬ 
sop counties, where season is open between 
Sept. I and Jan. 15; Harney and Grant counties. 
Sept. I to April i; Klamath and Lake counties. 
Sept. 15 to March 15. I.imit, twenty-five a week. 
Geese and Swan—Season closed Oct. i to 
March i. Harney, Grant, Klamath, Malheur 
and Lake counties. Sept, i to April i. 
Upland Birds, Chinese Pheasants—Open be¬ 
tween Oct. 15 and Nov. 15. Killing of females 
prohibited. Limit, five a day or ten a week. 
Closed absolutely in Jackson, Josephine, Hood 
River and Douglas counties. 
Grouse and Native Pheasant—Season open 
between Oct. 15 and Nov. 15. In Union, 
Wallowa, Baker, Umatilla and Grant counties, 
Aug. 15 to Oct. I. 
Quail—Season open Oct. 15 to Nov. 15. Sale 
prohibited. Limit, five a day, ten a week. In 
Jackson and Josephine counties, Oct. 15 to Dec. 
15. Limit, ten a day, twenty a week. 
Quail and Chinese Pheasants—-For Grant. 
Harney, Malheur, Gilliam. Umatilla and 
Wheeler counties, closed till Oct. 15, 1913, after 
which unlawful to kill between Nov. 15 and 
Oct. 15 of the following year. Limit, five a 
day, ten a week. 
, Shore and Wading Birds—Protected between 
March 1 and Oct. i. 
Doves and Wild Pigeons—Unlawful to kill be¬ 
tween Jan. I and Sept. 15. 
Sale of Birds—Sale of ducks permitted from 
Nov. 15 to Dec. 15. Sale of Chinese pheasants 
permitted when raised in captivity, giving posi¬ 
tive evidence of having been pinioned, to the 
satisfaction of the game warden. 
Trout-—Unlawful to catch except salmon 
trout, during December, January, February and 
March. Only angling permitted. Sale of trout 
prohibited except those raised in private 
hatcheries. The limit of catch, seventy-five a 
day. All persons over 15 years of age are re¬ 
quired to have fisherman’s license, costing $1, 
except non-residents, who must pay $5, but a 
license is not required for a man or his family 
fishing on his own land. 
Quail Bill Fails. 
Raleigh, N. C., March 6 . —Editor Forest and 
Stream: The members and friends of the 
Audubon Society are very much concerned at 
the failure of the House to pass the bill, which 
went through the Senate, forbidding the sale 
of quail for two years from this date, and also 
limiting the bag for any one day to fifteen each 
person. All sorts of ridiculous amendments 
were offered in the House and many members 
wanted to except their counties. It was de¬ 
clared that the bill was in the interest of sports¬ 
men from out of the State and that it trenched 
upon the rights of landholders. One member 
said the birds belonged to the man on whose 
land they were and was told very plainly that 
they were State property and hence subject to 
regulation. This seemed to astonish him greatly. 
A host of minor game bills have been intro¬ 
duced and one to give all the receipts from the 
non-resident gunners’ license tax of $10 to the 
public schools instead of to the Audubon So¬ 
ciety. A number of ignorant members criti¬ 
cized the society sharply. The hunting season 
has ended in all except five counties, where it 
extends to March 15, and thanks to their keep¬ 
ing so close to the cover, more birds are spared 
than was expected. Fred A. Olds. 
Good Talk. 
Ithaca, N. Y., March 3. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: Game protection in New York State 
can of course be improved from year to year, 
and we must protect our game if the genera¬ 
tions to come are to enjoy field shooting in a 
moderate way. Unfortunately, gunmakers and 
gun dealers are too apt to fight anything that 
in any way curtails their immediate sales of 
arms and ammunition. Let us be sportsmen 
first and gunmakers after. 
We have several good, hard working game 
wardens in our State. We have one in Ithaca 
who works day and night if necessary. We 
have run across him many times during the 
night time on Cayuga Lake, looking for illegal 
fishermen. When hunting birds we meet him 
away back in the woods. Many times during 
the last winter when hunting red foxes over 
our rough country, we have met him plugging 
along through snow and zero weather, still 
working to keep us all obeying the game laws. 
We refer to warden John Vann. 
How many of us appreciate the hardships and 
dangers to which our eighty wardens are sub¬ 
ject? Let us help them get the right laws 
worked out, then help to enforce them. 
Ithaca Gun Co. 
“In the Fullness of Years.” 
Byron, Ill., Feb. 27 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: “In the Fullness of Years,” that ap¬ 
peared in Forest and Stream of Feb. 20, 
is easily one of the greatest outdoor letters ex¬ 
tant. It is the unconscious portrayal of the 
perfect life on this earth. How like Joel Chand¬ 
ler Harris is R. L. B. Yes, Uncle Remus led, 
and R. L. B. leads, the perfect life on this earth. 
In so far as we may, let us follow their ex¬ 
ample, and love and stand for their philosophy 
which makes for happiness and the welfare of 
our fellows. It is the “good medicine” and 
sound philosophy, even with that written above, 
that is responsible for the doubling of your sub¬ 
scription list. Every man who reads Forest and 
Stream is bound to be a better sportsman, a 
better American, and a better as well as a happier 
man. A. J. Woodcock. 
Club House Burns. 
While a party of members and guests of the 
Clear Lake Outing Club were at the club house 
on the Illinois River near Havana, Ilk, on March 
4, fire destroyed the place. 
His Wife's Doubts. 
Game dealer to unfortunate Cockney sports¬ 
man: “Sorry we are quite out of game, sir, 
but I can highly recommend the sausages.” 
Cockney sportsman: “H’m, yes! But I am 
afraid the wife would never believe I shot 
them.”—British Sportsman. 
