Connecticut western news., 1910-10-06
HUNTING SEASON
 IS NOW HERE
And the Outlook Promises Some Good Sport Among New England Hills
 and Vales.
A Few Facts Regarding the Game Laws That it Will be Well to Post Up On Before Starting on the Hunt.

opening of the deer and game bird season throughout New England. Sportsmen are oiling their guns, and the dingy khaki hunting coats are coming out of the dark closet. Sporting goods stores are putting away fishing tackle. and rifles and shotguns and cartridges fill the shop windows.
 Indications are that the season will be fine one, from the viewpoint of the sportsmen, if not of the game. The Sum mer has been pleasant, and New England has suffered little or none from forest fires and drouths such as have been sx- perienced in the West. Cartridges and woodcock should be plentiful, and the deer may be expected to be more numer- ousSthan any time during the past few years.
 Not the least important part of the preparation for the hunting trip should be the task of learning something of the hunting laws. The laws are strictly en- forced, and as the State legislature grind out 6 gist of amendments and new legisla- l tion each. year it is necessary to keep posted. s..1 ...--
 New England's game laws might well be model to the rest of the country. The laws of New York and Pennsylvania are almost equally strict but the game is not so plentiful. In the South game is more.plentiful but is being killed off | Eo AIa low and lax enforcement in most places. In the Middle West game is not so plentiful and not so carefully preserved, while in the Western States the laws are regu. lated by the plsntitHds of the game.
 Sporting goods men can usually fur nish information as to the laws in a given locality. But the following abstract of the laws of the New England States, where most of the hunting is done, will give information enough for the average hunter
 The eMassachusettslaw now allows ruff fled grouse quail and woodcock to be kill ed between October 15 and November 15. Deer may be killed by duly licensed persons during the third week in Nov ember, the season beginning at sunrise Monday morning and continuing until sunset Saturday night, in the Counties of Berkshire, Franklin, Hamden, Hampshire and Worcester. One person is allowed one deer and this must not be killed by the use of any trap or salt lick. Any person killing or wounding deer must report the fact at once to the Commissioner on Fisheries and Game. This does not forbid farmers from kill ing deer found destroying his trees or crops.
 Before the first of November of this year it is unlawful to kill 8 deer in the State, according to the 1909 statues except that farmers may kill as above.
 A person may kill not over fifteen gray squirrels between October 15and Novem- Der 15. Farmers are allowed to kill squirrels injurinG their crops.
 It Is unlawful to use traps, snares or any power boats or hunting any game or water fowl. Nor may traps be used for killing hares or rabbits, except for damage to crops. Upland plover, wild pigeons. .gulls and terms may not be killed.
 The open season for ducks, geese, ,brant and swan extends from September 15 to December 31, and for shore marsh and beach birds from August 1 to Dec ember 31.
 No person is allowed to hunt any game birds or animals without license, and without being registered with the clerk of the town. The fee is $1 for natives, $10 for nonresident and $15 for unnaturalized aliens.
 In Maine, bull moose may be killed between October 15 and December one moose being allowed each person. Two deer are allowed, which may be killed between October 1 and December 15. In some counties the open season comes in November and only one deer may be killed. Dogs nor jacklights may be used, nor traps of any description. flares and rabbits may be killed from the first of September to the last of March
 Uuder the head of game birds it is pro- yided that the open season for ducks of all descriptions shall extend from Sep tember to January l. for ruff1ed grouse and woodcock from September 15 to De cember 1, and for blower and snipe from August to May 1.
 A limit of fifteen per day per person is placed on each of the above birds except sandpipers of which seventy may be killed. Birds may be killed only for personal consumption. Hunting any of the game birds may be carried on only with firearms and by the usual sporting methods.
 To hunt in Maine, a nonresident or