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Court of the Lnited States on January 19, 1914, 
sustaining the alien hunting law of Pennsylvania, 
legislation prohibiting aliens from hunting or 
owning shotguns or rifles were enacted in at least 
four States—Massachusetts, New Jersey, North 
Dakota, and West Virginia—but certain excep¬ 
tions based on property qualifications were made 
in Massachusetts and New Jersey. 
Close seasons extending for several years were 
provided for certain kinds of big game and also 
for game birds. Hunting mountain sheep was 
suspended in Idaho, Montana, and Washington, 
and goats were protected 1 ntil 1918 in Montana.’ 
Moose were protected for four years in Maine, 
the first absolute close seaso 1 0:1 the species for 
35 >ears since the suspensi n of hunting from 
1878 to 18S0. Antelope were given absolute pro¬ 
tection in New Mexico and Montana. In Michi 
gan, New Mexico, and Oklahoma prairie chick¬ 
ens were protected for several years. Michigan 
extended complete protection also to quail, im¬ 
ported pheasants, grouse, and wood ducks for 
five years. Minnesota protected doves, wood¬ 
cock, plover, and wood ducks until 1918. New 
Mexico gave protection to pheasants, bob-whites, 
pigeons, and swans. Oklahoma protected doves, 
grouse, wood ducks, and curlew. Several birds 
were removed from the game list and protected 
throughout the year. Oklahoma gave such pro¬ 
tection to pelicans, gulls, and herons. Tennessee 
declared ring-neck pheasants, bullbats, robins, and 
meadowlarks to be nongame birds. In a few 
cases protection was removed from certain spe¬ 
cies—-notably the turkey buzzard in Delaware, 
Florida, and North Carolina; owls and starlings 
in New Hampshire; and cormorants in Illinois 
and North Dakota. 
For the first time in 12 years moose hunting is 
permitted in Wyoming, and for the first time 
since 1907 prairie-chicken shooting is permitted in 
Indiana. 
Among the novel features in the laws this year 
may be mentioned the declaration in the Florida 
law that ownership of game is vested in the re¬ 
spective counties; the provision in the California 
law protecting spike bucks, or deer with un¬ 
branched horns, instead of deer with horns of a 
certain length; and the Wyoming experiment of 
allowing the killing of 50 bull moose under $100 
licenses instead of an indifinite number during a 
limited season. Methods of hunting were re¬ 
stricted in Michigan by prohibiting the use of 
automobiles in hunting partridges, and in Indiana 
by prohibiting the use of searchlights or other arti¬ 
ficial liyhts attached to autos for hunting game 
on or near a h g'nvay. Several new restrictions 
on shipment appeared for the first time: Illinois 
orohibited importaticn from points outside the 
State of any game except deer legally killed. 
Pennsylvania prohibited shipment of game by 
parcel post, and Wisconsin, shipment under an 
alias. Connect cut authorized the commissioners 
ot fisheries and game to grant permits to bring 
in game lawfully killed outside the State, pro¬ 
vided such game is not offered for sale. 
Big Game. 
The more important changes affecting big 
game included the closing of the season for four 
years on moose in Maine; authorization for the 
killing of 50 bull moose in Wyoming; lengthen¬ 
ing the season on elk in Montana two weeks; 
closing the season on mountain sheep in Mon¬ 
tana; changes affecting does in 8 States, includ¬ 
ing the removal of protection (1) in Florida, 
Nevada. New Jersey, and Wyoming; establish¬ 
ment of a limit in Arkansas; and decrease in the 
limits in Alaska, Michigan, Montana, and Nevada. 
Under present conditions deer hunting is per¬ 
mitted in 36 States, in about one-third of which 
the hunter is limited to one deer a season and in 
most of the others to two. Seventeen States pro¬ 
tect does at all seasons and allow only bucks to be 
killed—namely, Alabama, Arizona, California, 
Georgia, Idaho, Missouri, Mississippi, New Mexi¬ 
co, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, 
Texas, Utah, Vermont, (1) West Virginia, and 
Wisconsin. Pennsylvania requires that deer killed 
shall have horns two inches above the hair, New 
York and Vermont, at least 3 inches long, and 
West Virginia, 4 inches long, while California 
prohibits entirely the killing of spike bucks. 
I'Vermont has suspended the restriction during 1915. 
Quail. 
Notwithstanding the agitation in favor of pro¬ 
tecting quail for several years in some sections, 
no bills of this kind were passed this year, and 
38 States still provide quail shooting. The sea¬ 
sons were shortened six weeks in Oklahoma and 
two weeks in Nevada. Limits were established 
for the first time in Arkansas and New Hamp¬ 
shire, reduced in Iowa from 25 to 15 per day, in 
Oklahoma from 25 to 10, in Minnesota from’ 15 
to 10, and increased in Nevada from 15 to 20. All 
but 14 of the States which permit quail hunting 
now have a limit of 20 birds or less per day. 
Waterfowl. 
All the States now allow waterfowl hunting, 
but the wood duck is protected for several years 
throughout the northern zone and in the southern 
zone in the States of California, Kansas, and 
West Virginia. Daily bag limits were established 
for the first time in Arkansas and Connecticut, 
reduced in Oklahoma from 25 to 10, and increas¬ 
ed in Missouri from 10 to 15. Most of the States 
now have a limit of 25 or less per day. 
Open Seasons. 
Open seasons were lengthened in Montana on 
elk and deer two weeks; in Florida on deer and 
birds three weeks; in Minnesota on quail 20 days; 
and in Nevada on sage hens four and a half 
months, on grouse one month, and on quail two 
weeks. New Jersey reverted to the former plan 
of hunting deer on four consecutive Wednesdays 
instead of five consecutive days. 
Seasons were shortened in a number of States. 
In the case of big game the deer season was 
curtailed in Arkansas three months; in Oregon 
and Washington two weeks. In New Mexico 
the seasons were generally shortened and ar¬ 
ranged in two districts divided at latitude 35 
degrees. In California the dove season was made 
later and in Minnesota shortened 20 days; in 
Oklahoma the quail season was curtailed six 
weeks, and in Michigan, Nevada (ducks), Tenn¬ 
essee, and Wyoming, spring shooting of water- 
fowl was abolished. 
Export and Sale. 
Three impotant changes have radically affected 
traffic in game in the Mississippi Valley during 
the present year. In February the Supreme Court 
of Arkansas (1) held that a local law permitting 
shipment of game from the Chickasawba district 
of Mississippi County, Ark., was unconstitutional, 
and that the general law prohibiting shipment of 
game was in effect in this country as well as in 
other parts of the State. A little later the Legis¬ 
lature of Tennessee prohibited the sale of all 
protected game taken within the State, thereby 
cutting off the market for ducks killed on Reel- 
foot Lake. Finally, in June, a new game law 
was passed in Illinois prohibiting the sale of all 
game, native or imported, except rabbits. For 
twenty years or more Illinois has permitted the 
sale at certain seasons of game imported from 
other States. Illinois now not only prohibits the 
sale but also the export of all protected game 
except rabbits. Missouri has strengthened its 
export law by a provision prohibiting export of 
quail for any purpose. 
t Jonesboro Lake City & Eastern R. R. Co. v. 
Adams, 174 S. W. 527. 
Bag Limits. 
A bag-limit law was passed for the first time in 
Arkansas—applicable to deer, bear, turkey, quail, 
and ducks. Limits were established in Connecti- 
