The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-29
sportsmen are Getting Ready for the
Fall Season as the Gun can
Be Tried on Next
Thursday.
Quail viii be Scarce but There Will
Very Likely be Plenty Of Ducks
Along The
River.

NOW is the time to get out the old
gun, take the boots out of the attic
and get the outfit ready for the fall
season, for the law is off on game
next Thursday. The disciples of Isaac
Walton have laid aside the rod a1d
reel and the Bwano Tumbos have
taken the field. And hist every in
.dication points to good duck hunting
this fall around these parts.
The late spring put crimp into
the feed in the western waters and
the dry summer completed the dam
age. So the main part of the required
feed is along the river, and the ducks
will corle down the highway to the
south. The sportsmen along the river
are excited over the prospect and
many ducks should fall to the roar
or the twelve guage.
The quail, pheasant and chicken will
not be quite so plentiful this year ow-
ing to the late spring, but the farm
ers report quite a number OF them
and tsose who follow the dogs afie,d
should have good sport.
1t is alright to sit. in the hot sun
and root for the ball team or rush up
and down the side lines watching the
foot ball giants play, but who can
resist the call of nature and the de-
sire for hunting. To lie in blind,
with the sun just peeping over the
hills and see a fiying arrow coming
down the river and making for your
decoys. to crouch with every nerve
set ready for the crucial movement,
then spring up ant- hear the old gun
roar and see big drake falter and
then fall. that is to many the best
Of real sport.
1t IS something duri3e the warm
months to watch the pitchers put them
lover. to roast the umpire. or to see
the leading slugger put it over the
fence, but when the frost begins to
show in the early mornings. then
here is something else besides base
ball. 1t is to follow the dog through
I tie stubble, carefully, to hear a whir
OF wings, to see feathered flock dart
un, again the roar of the gun, dou-
BILE made-then you're talking sport.
So get out the old gun and oil it up.
see that the hin boots are not leaking.
1 the dog isn't too fat. buy your IL
cense and prepare for the coming sea
Esol. Rrt don't start before Thursday.
obey the following laws. and may the
hunting season be good.
Synopsis Of Game Law.
You car hunt pinnanted grouse. or
prairie chicken between September |
and December i; woodcock between
July 10 and January 1; ruffled grouse
or pheasant. wild turkey or quail he
TWEEN November / and December IS:
wild duck, goose or brant. rail. plover,
sand piper, marsh or beach bird be-
tween September ! and April Is; gray
| or fox squirrel between September l
and January /.
You cannot shoot or kill quail on
the public highway.
! You cannot kill or attempt to kill
any game bird from anv water con
| veyance except propelled by car or
paddle.
You cannot hunt or shoot from any
boat, canoe, continuance, or device on
! any Of the waters of the state be.
tween sunset and sunrise.
You cannot kill any deer, elk or
goat.
You cannot shoot for traffic. or
shoot or kill more than twenty-five
birds, game or animals in any one
day or have in your possession more
THAN twenty-five of said birds, game
Tor animals. except ducks. of which
you can have fifty.
4 You cannot sell game birds, or ami
mails, dead Or alive.
of this state any of the birds, game
or animals named
You can ship within this state by
making proper affidavit, not to exceet
one dozen game birds in any one day
during open season, but not for sale
or profit.
You cannot use a swivel gun or any
gun except such as Is commonly sho
from the shoulder.
You cannot hunt upon the enclosed
4 or cultivated lands Of any person with
Tout the owners, occupants or agent!
permission.
You cannot kill any wild song birds
or other birds except game birds a
iany time.
! You cannot take or kill any Mon
golian ring neck English or Chimes