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ants, quail and all kinds of singing birds in this 
preserve, which will add materially to the attrac¬ 
tiveness of the location as a summer home, be¬ 
sides doing splendid work in the protection of 
wild birds. 
C. D. VELIE. 
SHOOTING GOOD IN MARYLAND. 
Baltimore, Jan. 9, 1915. 
There were more good ducks in Maryland the 
first of this season than for some years, although 
shooting was not at its best; many ducks left 
here earlier than usual this season, due in my 
opinion to the power boat shooting at the 'head 
of Chesapeake, made legal by the recent Legisla¬ 
ture, I have seen more red heads and canvas 
backs this year than for many years, but up to 
the last week or two there has been a great 
scarcity of the lesser scaup, called here little 
black head. 
The partridge season was about the average; 
owing to the foot and mout'h disease spreading 
among cattle a quarantine was placed on hunting 
with dogs. I am sorry to say that outside of stop¬ 
ping the man who had to transport his dogs from 
county to county, shooting went on just the same 
and we can look forward to no increase in our 
bird supply due to this apparently additional 
closed season. 
The State wide closed season opening our bird 
and rabbit season uniformly on Nov. 10 has 
worked well, and we sincerely trust the next 
Legislature will not change its uniformity. 
With best wishes for a successful year, I am 
Yours truly, 
TALBOTT DENMEAD. 
TROUT NURSERIES LOCATED. 
Deadwood, South Dakota.— Game Warden 
Hedrick has been in the Hills locating fish nur¬ 
series which are expected to increase greatly the 
number of available trout for fishermen next 
summer. It is proposed to construct dams and 
reservoirs to keep the small trout safe until they 
attain proper growth. One site in Spearfish 
canyon and one in Rapid Creek have been se¬ 
lected and the game warden hopes to have the 
nurseries ready for spring. 
WOULD ABOLISH A STATE DEPARTMENT. 
Helena, Mont.—An effort to abolish the game 
warden’s department and transfer the duties to 
the sheriffs of the several counties, will be made 
at the coming session of the legislature, accord¬ 
ing to Joseph Kirschwing of Great Falls. 
“The game warden’s department is all right 
when the purpose for which it was created is 
observed, but when it simply becomes a 'big spoke 
in a political machine, it is time for it to be 
wiped out.” said Kirschwing. 
Men are touring Montana working up agita¬ 
tion for the abolishment of the department. In 
addition to the game warden, there are about 23 
deputy wardens. The expense of maintenance 
does not affect the general taxpayers, but only 
hunters and fishermen. All men, citizens of 
Montana, who hunt or fish, are required to ob¬ 
tain license costing $1. Non-residents and aliens 
pay more, and this money is used for the up¬ 
keep of the department. 
Several candidates for the legislature made 
abolishment of the game warden’s office one of 
the planks upon which they ran. 
FOREST AND STREAM 
NEW JERSEY HUNTING AND FISHING 
LICENSES. 
Summary and Full Text of New Hunting and 
Fishing License Law, Effective Jan. 1st, 1915. 
Summary. 
In effect January 1st, 1915. Applies only to 
fresh waters as to fishing. All licenses to be 
obtained from any county or municipal clerk or 
salaried fish and game warden. 
Resident’s Hunting and Fishing License. 
(a) Resident males and females above the age 
of fourteen (who must be citizens of the United 
States, who actually and bona fide reside in this 
State at the time of application for a license and 
who have actually and bona fide resided in this 
State for one year immediately prior thereto) 
must secure a “Residents’ Hunting and Fishing 
License’ in order to hunt with firearms any pro¬ 
tected or unprotected wild bird, animal or fowl, 
which license also entitles the holder to fish. 
(b) Resident males above the age of fourteen, 
who are citizens of the United States and who 
have the above resident qualifications, must se¬ 
cure a "Residents’ Hunting and Fishing License” 
in order to fish for any fish in the fresh waters 
of the State by the method commonly known as 
angling, which license also entitles the holder to 
hunt. 
(c) The “Residents’ Hunting and Fishing Li¬ 
cense” entitling the legal holder thereof to hunt 
and fish shall cost $1.15. 
No license to fish is required of: 
(1) Resident females. 
(2) Males under fourteen years. 
No hunting license shall be issued to any per¬ 
son under fourteen years. Persons under this 
age are therefore prohibited from hunting unless 
they come within the exceptions noted below. 
Non-residents’ and Aliens’ Hunting and Fishing 
License. 
(d) Non-resident and alien males and fe¬ 
males above the age of fourteen must secure a 
“Non-residents’ and Aliens’ Hunting and Fishing 
License” in order to hunt any protected or un¬ 
protected wild bird, animal or fowl, which li¬ 
cense also entitles the holder to fish. 
(e) With regard to non-residents and aliens 
who desire to fish only see (g), (h) and (i) 
below. 
(f) The “Non-residents’ and Aliens’ Hunting 
and Fishing License” entitling the legal holder 
thereof to hunt and fish shall cost $10.15. 
No hunting license shall be issued to any per¬ 
son under fourteen years. Persons under this 
age are therefore prohibited from hunting, un¬ 
less they come within the exceptions noted below. 
Non-residents’ and Aliens’ Fishing License. 
(g) Non-resident and alien males above the 
age of fourteen, who desire to fish only and who 
have not taken out a “Non-residents’ and Aliens’ 
Hunting and Fishing License,” must secure a 
“Non-residents’ and Aliens’ Fishing License” in 
order to fish for any fish in the fresh waters by 
the method commonly known as angling. 
(h) The “Non-residents’ and Aliens’ Fishing 
License” entitling the legal holder thereof to fish 
shall cost $2.15. This license does not entitle the 
holder to hunt. 
(i) No license to fish is required of: 
(1) Non-resident and alien females. 
(2) Non-resident and alien males under four¬ 
teen years. 
Exceptions. 
Exceptions: “Nothing in this act contained 
shall prevent the occupant of any farm in this 
State, who actually resides thereon, or the im¬ 
mediate members of the family of such occupant 
who also reside on said farm, from hunting for, 
taking, killing or pursuing with a gun or fire¬ 
arm, on said farm, any wild bird, animal or fowl, 
or from taking fish on said farm with hand-line, 
or rod and line, in the manner provided by law 
at any time when it is lawful so to do, without 
being licensed hereunder; provided, however, 
that the exemption contained in the foregoing 
provision shall not apply to any person residing 
on said farm or in any tenant house thereon who 
is not a member of the family of such occupant, 
nor to any servant of such occupant.” 
OREGON SPORTSMEN ELECT OFFICERS. 
At the annual meeting of the Oregon Sports¬ 
men’s League the following officers were elected: 
President, H. B. Van Duzer, Portland; first vice- 
president, W. N. Matlock, Pendleton; second 
vice-president, Dr. J. G. Gill, Lebanon; secre¬ 
tary-treasurer, S. C. Bartrum, Roseburg; execu¬ 
tive committee, district 1, L. W. Humphreys, 
Portland; district 2, W. W. Goff, Forest Grove; 
district 3, A. Crandall, Brownsville; district 4, 
George P. Putnam, Medford; district 5, Leo A. 
E. Scharno. The Dalles; district 6, G. I. La Dow, 
Pendleton; district 7, Charles Riley. Klamath 
Falls; publicity committee, C. A. Riddle, chair¬ 
man, Walter Backus, E. F. Averill, Henry Veatch, 
M. H. Bauer; nomination committee, E. C. Mc¬ 
Farland, chairman, G. I. La Dow, J. H. Driscoll, 
George Putnam, A. Crandall; resolution commit¬ 
tee, L. W. Humphreys, chairman, L. E. Bean, I. 
P. Gardner, E. J. Boot and Dr. J. G. Gill. 
MINNESOTA BIG GAME RETURNS. 
Duluth, Minn., Jan. 6—The 20 days open sea¬ 
son in Minnesota mounted into thousands. Prob¬ 
ably 500 deer and moose came to Duluth alone. 
Coincident with the conclusion of the open period 
for deer and moose, members of the Northwest¬ 
ern Gun Club will consider a number of recom¬ 
mendations by game wardens to shorten the 
season on big game and game birds to 10 days. 
Eleven dead hunters and 12 wounded is the 
toll of the hunting season in Minnesota. The 
number of deer and moose killed is the largest 
in the history of the state. Hundreds of nim- 
rods from eastern and middle west cities obtained 
licenses in Minnesota this year. Game was abund¬ 
ant in far-away localities, but scarce where it 
abounded in former years. 
OFFICERS ELECTED BY FREEPORT GUN 
CLUB. 
At the annual meeting of the Freeport, (Ill.) 
Gun Club, the following officers were elected : 
President, Russel Weir; vice-president, Ralph 
Rosenstiel; secretary, C. L. Bossmeyer; treas¬ 
urer, Jean James; field captain, Herman Jans¬ 
sen, H. D. Swartz, Dr. C. L. Karcher and Ralph 
B. Rosenstiel were appointed a handicap com¬ 
mittee. 
DOUGLAS COUNTY GAME PROTECTIVE 
ASSOCIATION. 
The Douglas County (Ore), Game Protective 
Association has elected the following officers: 
President, J. H. Sykes, vice-president, A. J. Lib- 
urn; secretary-treasurer, T. A. Rafferty; execu¬ 
tive committee, S. C. Bartrum, Rev. Paul J. Lux 
and George Neuner. 
