Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-10-11
HUNTERS OFF
FOR CHICKENS
LARGE CROWD OF SPORTS
MEN BUSY WITH SHOTGUN
AND DOG EARLY.
Game WardenS Will See That No
rIore Than Twenty-Five Chick
ems are Killed Per Day. The
Shooting is Great. What Can
Be Shot.

Iowa-Prairie chickens or pinnated
grouse until December 1, squirrels un-
til January /, wild dick, geese, snipe
and branJ April Is.
South Dakota-Prairie chickens,
grouse of any variety, woodcock or
quail until January1; ployer or curlew
until May Is; beaver or otter, killed OF
captured until May
Nebraska-Prairie chickens and
grouse until December l.
Minnesota-Turtle dove, snipe,
prairie chickens. pinnated, white
breasted or sharp tailed grouse, wood
cock, upland plover and golden plovel
until November 1; wild duck of any
variety, wild goose. brant or any vari-
ETY. of aquatic fowl until December 1.
North Dakota-Prairie chickens and
grouse, any variety, woodcock until
October 15;wild duck, goose. brant, or
crane until May L; wild duck, goose.
brant; Or crane until May 1; quail
English or Chinese pheasant or wild
swan until October Is.
The lid is off in the best hunting
states OF the northwest!
Once more man can dine like his
American ancestors on the game
brought down with his own arrows,
A dinner can be perfected with rare
roast beef, domestic duck stuffed with
onions, clans on the shell, spatchcOck
or archovy on toast, the appetite can
be whetted with half dozen stimu-
lants, but such things are in the end
hollow mockery. What man wants
is some prairie chicken, brought down
with the gun of a friend who has the
time and inclination to GO up into the
fields of South Dakota, or along the
fences of Nebraska, and stir up a meal.
Friends can keep you in game now.
The days Of leanness are past. There
is corn in Egypt again.
Not only can you have game, but
you can make enough to pay your
hunting license in South Dakota by
killing few wolves; or you might pay
your expenses by bringing back among
your dainty quail, a few polecat, mink
or other pelts. All these things you
are allowed to do, according to the just
and beneficient laws Of Nebraska Iowa
South and North Dakota and Minnesota.
But you must not let gross CONNER
cialism enter into the sport or the
game wardens will assess you few
williams" that will make the game
rather expensive. In Iowa no game
must be killed for traffic, and you cant
kill more than twenty-five birds in
day. Tne law considers that load
and you will be governed accordingly.
In South Dakota, where the fields are
wide, unfenced, and the birds are apt
to be thicker than mosquitoes in New
Jersey, you must limit your shooting to
fifteen bsrds a day.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
Railway has issued a neat booklet Of
the game laws of the states in the
north west, giving the laws in detail.
which will save you from troubling
your friends to get you out OF Jail, If
you secure and study it as you would
your time table and expense account.
F. A. Miller, General Passenger'Agent.
Chicago; will send you copy if you
write to him for it. Many hunters are
now going to South Dakota and the bag
gage cars on the morning trains into
| the Dakotas had little room for trunks
or coffin boxes, being entirely occupied
by dozen differant varieties of dogs.
Sioux City 0owa) Tribune.