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[May 20, 1911. 
off by stock. The fight will be to get the mem¬ 
bers of the Legislatures to encourage the do¬ 
mestication of game if possible. I am afraid 
my patience is exhausted when it comes to that. 
T. E. Hofer. 
[When our correspondent says that he has 
“very little respect for the ability of State or 
Government officers who usually have such 
things under their charge,” he goes too far. 
Most men are slack and careless, and of officials 
—State or Federal—a considerable proportion 
regard a Government job more or less as a 
sinecure, where pay is to be drawn and no 
special work is to be done. On the other hand, 
there are not a few officials who throw them¬ 
selves into their work heart and soul, and do 
the best that they can with the means at their 
power. Sweeping condemnations of this kind 
will not help along game protective work. Each 
case should be taken up by itself and decided 
on its own merits.— Editor.] 
Changes in California Laws. 
Berkeley, Cal., May 10. —Editor Forest and 
Stream: During the session of the State Legis¬ 
lature recently closed over 120 bills pertaining to 
game and fish matters were introduced and a 
number of these were passed by both Houses. 
Some have been vetoed by Governor Johnson, but 
enough have received his signature to make the 
work of this Legislature quite notable. Prom'- 
nent among the measures passed were the 
“blanket” fish and game bill and the game dis¬ 
trict bill, both of which were explained in a re¬ 
cent issue of Forest and Stream. The Fish and 
Game Commission is now preparing to issue in 
card form the changes that have been made in 
the game laws, and in addition to naming the 
six game districts of the State and the opening 
and closing seasons will give the following 
synopsis of the game laws now in force, show¬ 
ing what is unlawful: 
To hunt birds or animals without having pro¬ 
cured a hunting license. 
To have in possession doe or fawn skins. 
To take or kill at any time does, fawns, ante¬ 
lope or mountain sheep. 
To take or kill any wild pheasant, swan, bob- 
white quail or any imported quail, pheasant or 
wild turkey. 
To shoot between a half hour after sunset and 
a half hour before sunrise. 
To fish for any trout from an hour after sun¬ 
set to one hour before sunrise. 
To trap or hold any protected game or birds 
of any kind without having procured written 
authority from the commission. 
To take, possess or destroy nests or eggs of 
any birds. 
To ship game or fish in concea’ed packages 
without the shipper’s name and address. 
To buy or sell trout less than one pound in 
weight, or striped bass less than three pounds 
in weight. Domestic raised trout excepted. 
To take trout, black bass, except with hook 
and line, or to ship or carry trout or striped 
bass out of the State. 
To fish for a profit without having first se¬ 
cured a fishing license. 
To fish for salmon, shad or striped bass with 
nets Saturday and Sunday. 
To take fish in any way within fifty feet of 
a fish-way. 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
To take or kill meadow larks, robins or any 
other non-game birds, excepting bluejays, Eng¬ 
lish sparrows, sharp-shinned hawk, Cooper’s 
hawk, duck hawk, great-horned owl or Califor¬ 
nia linnet. 
To export or have in possession dried shrimps 
or shrimp shells. 
To use any animal as a blind, other than a 
dog, to approach any wild duck or waterfowl 
except geese. 
To have in possession any dressed catfish less 
than seven inches in length. 
To take yellowfin or spotted fin croaker or any 
California whiting, also known as surf fish, ex¬ 
cept with hook and line. 
To mutilate any lobster, crab or crawfish so 
that its size cou d not be measured, or to se'l 
any lobster, crab or crawfish meat not in the 
shell. 
To fish through the ice for any fish. 
To kill or have in possession any beaver. 
To use fyke nets except for catfish. 
To buy, sell, offer for- sale, barter or trade at 
any time any quail, grouse, dove, pheasant, sage 
hens, snipe, ibis, plover, rail, deer meat or deer 
skins. Domestic reared pheasants are excepted. 
To have pismo clams less than thirteen inches 
in circumference or to take more than 200 in 
one day. 
To take black bass or trout in nets. 
To use any two or three mesh trammel nets 
after Jan. 1, 1912. 
To take fish with nets in Cache s’ough or any 
of its tributaries, and in Napa River or any of 
its tributaries. 
To fish with nets in Santa Cruz harbor, except 
for bait. 
To take game or fish from one district into 
another when the season is not open in both 
districts. 
To use more than one dog to the person for 
hunting deer. If a hunting party is composed 
of one or more each hunter may use one dog. 
Golden Gate. 
New York Spring Duck Shooting. 
Jamaica, N. Y., May 11 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: My attention has been cal.ed to the 
fact that recently there was sent broadcast 
throughout this State a circular letter, headed 
"New York State Sportsmen’s Association, Office 
of Secretary and Treasurer, Syracuse, N. Y.,” 
and signed by William E. Hookway, Secretary 
and Treasurer, calling upon the sportsmen of 
the State to urge their respective Senators and 
Assemblymen "to exert their influence that the 
privilege of shooting ducks for Long Island to 
April 1, under Senate bill 9 and Assembly bill 2, 
be extended to entire State, and that they see a 
bill is introduced to that effect.” 
As president of the New York State Sports¬ 
men’s Association I feel it my duty to call the 
attention of sportsmen and the public in general 
to the fact that this notice was sent out without 
any authorization whatever on the part of our 
association, and I take this means of repudiating 
the same. 
At a meeting held last December at Syracuse 
for the purpose of discussing the game laws, 
our association placed itself square’y on record 
as opposed to all forms of spring shooting, and 
Mr. Hookway was fully aware of this fact, for 
he acted at such meeting in his capacity of sec¬ 
retary. John H. Hendrickson, President. 
New Massachusetts Laws. 
Though the Massachusetts Legislature has not 
yet adjourned, a number of game and fish laws 
have been enacted, some of them peculiarly in¬ 
teresting. 
Absolute protection is put on the heath hen 
until 1916, and the buying, selling or otherwise 
disposing of, or having in possession any part 
of the same is punished by a fine of $100 for 
each bird or part thereof. 
The Plungarian, gray or European partridge 
is protected, except that breeders rearing these 
birds artificially under written permission from 
the Commissioners on Fisheries and Game may 
sell or have them in possession at any time of 
the year for purposes of propagation. 
Absolute protection is continued on the wood- 
duck until the 1st of September, 1916. 
The trapping, netting or snaring of game birds 
or waterfowl or attempts to trap, net or snare 
them, and the killing them by swivel guns, arti¬ 
ficial lights or by the aid of motor boats, or 
boats propelled by any other means than by sai's, 
oars or paddles is forbidden. 
The open season for hares and rabbits con¬ 
tinues from the 15th day of October to the 1st 
day of March. Hares and rabbits not taken 
contrary to the laws of Massachusetts may be 
sold at any time. Rabbits that have got into 
holes or stone walls or under ledges may not 
be removed, nor may they be trapped, snared, 
netted or taken with a ferret under such condi¬ 
tions ; but farmers and fruit growers may trap 
rabbits in box traps at any period of the year, 
provided they can show the hares or rabbits have 
injured crops or trees. 
Wild ducks may not be shot during the time 
between two hours after sunset and two hours 
before sunrise. 
A bag limit of fifteen has been placed on black 
ducks, on’y that number being permitted to be 
killed in one calendar day. 
The use of scented baits on the premises of 
another without the consent of the owner of- 
the premises is forbidden. 
The use or possession of live decoys for hunt¬ 
ing waterfowl is forbidden in the county of 
Nantucket. 
The law providing for hunters’ certificate of 
registration has been amended. 
Ruffed grouse and woodcock may be killed 
only between the 15th day of October and 15th 
day of November of each year, both dates in¬ 
clusive. These birds may not be bought, sold 
or offered for sale or otherwise disposed of. 
They may not be transported beyond the limits 
of the Commonwealth. 
A Lucky Cougar Hunter. 
C. E. Ordish returned to Libby Monday from 
a lion hunt on Pipe Creek and brought with 
him the hides of three fine lions with the heads 
attached. Mr. Ordish has a bet with C. C. 
Cobb, of Kalispell that he will send him twenty 
lion hides this winter. 
So far Mr. Ordish has sent in eleven hides 
and says that he has all kinds of time to spare 
and as many more lions in sight. During the 
last four years he states that he has captured 
and killed with two dogs seventy-four lions. 
On this last hunt Mr. Ordish had lassoed one 
of the animals that had been treed, but it 
chewed the lariat in two and had to be shot. 
—Spokane Herald 
