The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-03
GAME SEASON WILL
OPEN NEXT MONTH
Commissioner Wallace Issues
Instructions to Wardens
KILL QUAIL AT TER NOV. |
Wallace Says Splendid Effects Have
Been Result of Game Laws and
Urges Wardens to be Wig
liant This Year.
KILL QUAIL AFTER NOV. l

Montgomery, October 2.-(Special)-
State Game and Fish Commissioner John
H. Wallace, Jr., has addressed a letter of
instruction to the game wardens of the
state, strongly urging them to continue
their activities relative to the enforcement
of the game and fish laws of Alabama.
The instructions of Mr.. Wallace are
couched in characteristic, vigorous lam
guage. and the commissioner is unwaver-
ing In his determination to save from de-
struction the vast natural resources of
the state. The commissioners letter is as
follows:
1.-The season of the year is approaching
when violations of the game laws are to
be anticipated, and wardens should be on
the alert to apprehend those who commit
attractions and to vigorously prosecute
all breakers of the statutes looking to the
preservation and protection of the birds
and game. Under the guise of hunting
squirrels alnd doves, many hunters will
shoot quail during the month of October,
therefore not only should those whom you
suspect will shoot quail out of season be
watched, but espionage should be held
The Quail Season.
1.-THE season on quail opens November l.
The reports received at this office indi-
cate that the old birds were late in nest
ing, owing to the heavy rains that were
had during the late spring and early sum
mer months; therefore, when the season
opens these birds will be unusually small.
H.
ily bag more than the limit prescribed by
law. 1t Is most gratifying to realize that
during the last three years quails have
increased in this state more than 30 per
cent
1.-The open season on deer begins Noyem-
Der 1 and expires January l. The killing
of doe, or female deer, Is prohibited at
all times. Large herds of deer are fire.
quently seen when not single specimen
was observed prior to the enactment Of
the present game law. With the continued
vigilant protection of deer. in few years
they will abound in all the large bodies
of timber in this state.
Shoot Turkey December 1.
1.-THE open season on wild turkey begins
December /. Before the passage of the
present game law, these birds were hunt
ed regardless of the nesting season, and
in September and October. when the f1edg-
lings were still following the mother
birds, they would be flushed by hunters
and after they had scattered they would
be called up and oftentimes the entire
flock would be killed. Wild turkeys have
increased in large numbers in Alabama,
and since the law limits the killing of
these birds to gobblers only, there is no
reason why every sportsman in the state
should not serve to his family a wild
turkey gobbler at Christmas dinner.
1.-THE pot-hunter, under the present law,
is deprived from Offering for sale the
protected game birds and animals of this
state; this is causing the great army
and marauding band of game destruc-
tionists to disappear, very much to the
benefit of the state.
Must Have Permit.
1.-THE provision of the law requiring that
written permission must first be pro-
cured before one can hunt on the lands
of another has had a most salutary ell