The Lambertville record., 1906-10-24
FROM THE GAME LAWS.
Some Extracts Which Should be Read by
All Hunters and Fishermen-What is
Unlawful.

unlaWIui.
10 take or attempt to take any game
except by the use Of guns held at arms
length. Fine, $40.
10 take or attempt to take any fish
in any manner excepting with hook and
line, excepting taking minnows for
bait with a seine not more than thirty
feet long, excepting IN ponds and lakes
having an area Of over 100 acres where
seines Of fifty feet in length are permit
ted in bait fishing; taking eels with
baskets or weirs between the fifteenth
of September and the last of October,
and taking eels with wicker baskets
anchored on the bottoms of streams
and ponds. Fine, $50.
TO have trapped game in p9sses SION,
fine, $40.
10 hunt ON Sunday OF carry firearms
in the fields or woods or ON the waters
on Sunday, or to hunt for quail, part
ridge, pheasant, woodcock or rabbits
when there is tracking snow on the
ground. Fine, $40.
TO pollute streams. Fine, $500.
To use medicated bait or explosives
of any kind for taking fish. Fine, $Ioo.
10 draw off waters to take fish
Fine, SIoo.
To use set lines in waters inhabited
by pickercl pike, pike perch, bass or
trout, or to use any eontrlyance IN
fishing having more than three hooks
or one burr of three hooks, or have in
possession any such contrlvance Fine
$40.
To use carp for bait OF in any Other
way to put carp in fresh water. Fine,
$40.
To hunt geese, ducks or any watei
wild fowl, except between one houl
before sunrise and one hour after sun
set, to hunt any kind of water wild
fowl from boats not propelled by oar'
or paddles Fine, $40.
To catch or keep trout less than si>
inches in length; black or white bas:
less than nine inches in length, OF pike
perch, pike and pickerel less than
twelve inches in length. Fine, $40.
TO permit dogs to run rabbits a
night at any time or to run at large II
woods or fields inhabited by rabbits o
game birds except between the first o
October and the first of February, o
at any time in woods or fields inhabited
by deer Fine, $40.
10 remove quail, grouse, woodcock
squirrel, hare, English and ring neck
pheasants from the State. Fine $40
Farmers and fruit growers have tn,
right to trap rabbits under certain re
strictlons.
Dealers have fifteen days after thu
close of the season in which to dispos,
of game.
The open seasons, when fish may b
lawfully taken by the use of hook ant
line and game by the use of gun helt
at arms length are;
Quail, rabbit, partridge, English anC
ring neck pheasants, and squirrel, No
vember 10 to December 81 inclusive
Woodcock, July, October, Novembe
and December
Rail birds, marsh hens or mud hen
and reed birds September, October
November and December; not more
than thirty marsh hens in one day.
Plover, August and September
Geese, duck and water wild fowl
September to April 80.
Brook trout, April 1 to July 10
black and white bass, crapple, calico
bass and pike-perch, May 20 to Nc
vember 80; pickerel and pike, May 20
TO November 80, and January.
To the above may be added til,
following prohibitions, which, while no
the subject of legal enactment, are re
cognized as binding laws of behavio
by all reputable lovers of the pursuit
OF game OF fish.
Never violate the letter or the spirit
of the game laws.
Never take more fish OF game than
you have convenient use tor
Never be insolent or impohte to .
land owner who orders you of of hi
premises; for although he may not own
the game or fish you are after, he ha.
the right to exclusive possession of hi
property.
Never fail to destroy net or a trap
when YOU find one set.
Never shoot game bird except on
the wing.
Never kill the last quail in a covey
leave some to breed next year.
Never forget that game laws are in.
tended to improve and to increase
sport and not to restrict it.
In some of the Swiss valleys the inhabitant,
are all afflicted with goitre or thick neck
Instead of regarding this as a deformity they
] seem To think it IA natural feature of physical