The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-02
INSTRUCTIONS
 TO WARDENS Commissioner Issues
 Open Letter. GAME LAWS BENEFICIAL Urges Vigilance on Part of
 Officers. Declares Public Sentiment in Alabama h Favorable to Enforcement of Game Laws--says Virtue of
 Statutes Has Been

0tate Game and Fish Commissioner, John H. Wallace. IT.. has addressed a letter of instructions to the Game War dsns of the State. strongly urging them to continue their activities relative to the enforcement of the game and fish laws of this State.
 The Commissioners letter. in part. is as follows:
 .The season of the year is approach Ing when violations of the game law are to be anticipated, and wardens should be on the alert 10 apprehend those who commit miraculous 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 and doves. many hunters will shoot quail during the month of October. therefore not only should those whom you suspect will shoot quail out of sea- son be watched. but espionage should be held on all those seen afield with gun and dog.
 The season on quail opens Novem- Der l. The reports received at this off, Ace indicate that the old birds were late in nesting, owing to the heavy rains that were had during the late spring and early summer months; therefore, when the season opens these birds will be unusually small, and even the most ordinary shot can easily bag more than the limit prescribed by law. It is most gratifying to realize that du- ring the last three years quails have increased in this State more than fifty per cent.
 "The open season on deer begins No vember i and expires January I. The killing of doe. or female deer. Is pro hibited at all times. Large herds of deer are frequently seen where, not single specimen was observed prior to the enactment of the present game law. With the continued vigilant pro lection of deer. in a few years they will abound in all the large bodies of timber in this State.
 "The open season on wild turkeys begins December 1. Before the pas sage of the present game law. these birds were hunted regardless of the nesting season. and in September and October, when the fiedglings were still following the mother-bird they would be flushed by hunters and after they had scattered they would be killed. Wild turkeys have increased ip 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
 "rhe pot-hunter, under the present law, is deprived from offering for sale the protected game birds and animals Sf--tafiSs State. --se ..----~ - y--->--.--
 '"The provision of the law requiring that written permission must first be procured before one can hunt on the lands of another has had e most sa1u- tary effect in the matter of the en- forcement of the provisions of the game law. The farmer owns the domain over which hunting is done, furnishes the provender upon which the States game subsists. and it Is but proper that he should have the right to elect who his guests shall be. The farmers are citi- gems of conservatism and discretion. and are not likely to give written per- mission to hunt to reckless and shift less men. Land owners nave reported many violations of the game law and have been-powerful forces in bring ing igfractors of these statutes to ius- tice.
 "A demand should be made on all hunters the hunters license be exhib- ited for your inspection. and every one who hunts without having first procur- be immediately prosecuted. Likewise. any person who carries game on any common carrier in this State, without having in his possession a hunters Ii cense, should be made to answer in the courts for this offense.
 'Please be present each time the Cir- cult Court in your county convenes and request the presiding judge to give