The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-11-02
NO CHANCE ron TEXAS QUAIL.
Meters or Bob white arc ExterminatinG
This Valuable Gnme Bird.
from the San Antonio Daily Express.

from the San Antonio Daily Express.
WACO, Tex, Oct. 2o.-The game protection
lists have been startled lately by the unprece-
dented netting of quail. 1t is being marketed
in and out of the State ali re in coops at 81 per
Iozen to an extent never before obser we'd In tho
State. The Eunners who observe the law re-
port that Hill. Bosaue, and the northern por-
ton of McLennan county have already con-
tributed thousands of dozen to the market
hunters, and it has been timhted that since
the LIST inst. SIC. 900 has been realized by the
netters and trappera in the three counties
named.
At the headquarters OF the Game Protective
Association in Waco a great many Runners
gathered to-day and reported that their guns
and dogs were idle for lack of birds to
shoot. They went out last week with their
pest dogs, and after going over many miller OF
russell relds, returned brler scratched with
m1ty bags to report that the netters and
trappers had been there before them. and there
tory. Secretary Turner HUBBY OF the Game
Protective Associa ton of Texas has filed in
formation in a number of cases, and County
Attorney Joe w. Taylor PROMISES to bring up
the netting and TRAPPING, violations when the
Grand jury is empanelled again. For the
present Secretary Hubby says only partial re-
lief can be had because OF the fact that tho law
now on the statute books does not make the
ficient TO convict. and the shipping of birds as
freight or by ex press is still lawful. These are
tho prominent features III inc new game law
which the next Legislature will be asked to
pass.
cars at West and sent to Texas cities and cities
outside OF Texas. and larger Shipment have
been made at Mount Calm. The restaurants
exhibit live quail in cages as an inducement
TO customers. and there are twice as many res
taurants In central Texas now as compared
with a year ago. More than 25 per cent OF the
increase In restaurants is due to the enterprise
OF the Chinese, who have come TO Texas in
large numbers and embarked in tho restaurant
business.
Some of the Chinese are educated mon and
susceptible TO moral suasion, and that class
have agreed to cease purchasing live birds-
The protective association has been doing
missionary. work among the restaurants not
to handle birds taken in nets and traps. but
to give that the parties thus
ignorant Cinnamon and those who are indIf-
rerent on the subject purhase the live birds
Secretary Hubby says one dittiulty in the
prosecution Is the TACT that the state OF Iexas is
counties, and there is great difficulty in dis
proving when the tothunlers plead that they
Melted And trapped the birds in an exempt
quail had increased enormously CO npared
with last year. and there was a convey TO be
seen to every twenty acres in the best grounds.
AT present they were never ssarcer, and while
the supply In the Waco market last week
was put on the cars within twenty miles of
pssas and San Angelo. Netting and trappir z
is a regular business; Parties are liked up
earn a good deal OF money therein. Many
OF the netters mako their own nets. They
buy the Irvine and manufacture tho meta by
and when they haze succeeded in locating q
covey OF quail they consider the covey tLeirs.
A ooyey Of quail can never escape q skilrul
Meter. Information of the Wholesale netting
and trapping was sent to the Hon. X. r. Lock-
EFT, President OF the State Game Protective
steps to check it in those counties not already
depleted of birds.