The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-20
LICENSES FOR HUNTING.
What Different States Require
Killing Game.

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With the season for hunting var
ious kinds. of game, at hand hunters
will be interested in Farm ers' Bull
letin,'' No. 47g, gotten out by Tn
Gle. Sans agricultural departing emit,
pertaining to the game laws for the
year. being a summary of the pro-
visions relating to seasons, ship
booklet covers fifty-two pages relat-
ing to the seasons for game in this
country and Canada and will inter-
est persons indulging in this pastime
One of the numerous tables gives
the open seasons in this state as fol-
lows: Deer, s years, June /, 1917;
hare. rabbit, October 1-January Is;
gray squirrel, October S-November
23; quail, ruffed grouse, pheasant
(Chinese, Mongolian), woodeock, Oc-
tober S-November %; Hungarian par
fridge, November 1, 1913; dove, no
open season; plover, sandpipers, Will
son or English snipe, bay snipe, shore
birds. mud hen, gallinule, duck Eek
cept wood duck) goose, brant, swan,
September1-Janua 1; rail, Septem-
Der, 12-January i; wood duck, Sep
TENDER 1, 1919.
In Arkansas non-residents are not
permitted to hunt, except on their
ties), and in all the states except
Delaware and Georgia and through
out Canada licenses must be secured
before non-residents can hunt any or
certain kinds of game. In thirty
three states and six Canadian provin-
ces q like restriction is imposed on
residents, but the fees are usually
much smaller, and often are merely
nominal. The fees for nonresident
licenses for both big and small game
range from $40 in a number of states
to $50 in Alaska, Wyoming, New
Brunswick, Newfoundland, Ontario
and Saskatchewan, and 500 in Brit
ish Columbia and Yukon; those for
resident licenses from SO cents in Yer
mont to So in Missouri, South Dako-
ia and Washington, and 81 ($5 for
moose and caribou and 81 for deer) in
Ontario.
A, special kind of hunting license
often known as the "alien" license, is
being generally adopted to restrict
hunting by persons who are not citi-
Zens of the country, and is now in
force in about half of the states. Lou
isiana, Maine, Massachusetts,, Con-
necticut and Rhode Island have spe-
cIal s15 licenses for resident aliens;
Washington, Wyoming, and Manito-
ba a $50 license for nonresident
aliens; California, Idaho, Montana
Nevada, and Oklahoma SIS Incense;
Utah and Alaska q Sf0G license for
all aliens, and Pennsylvania prohib-
us dlleuS from nOQIlQS OF owning
guns in the state.
Licenses are generally issued only
for the open season, and thus expire
at fixed dates. Some are necessarily
very brief in duration Michigan
issues a $25 nonresident deer license
good only for twenty-five days OF
season. In a few instances licenses
are issued at reduced rates for a
week or for few days. Of this
character are the nonresident bird
licenses, good for one week, issued by
Colorado and the British subjects by
British Columbia; the six-day bird IL
cense issued to non-residents in Sass
katchewan; the guest, license good fol-
five days, issued by Alberta and the
daily licenses issued for hunting birds
in Colorado and any game in Lafay-
cite, Marion and Sumter counties,
Florida.
Land owners or taxpayers are moi
required to pay the usual fee in a
number of states, and no license is
required of those hunting in their own
county in Texas or Nova Scotia. Spe-
cial exemptions are made in favor oil
nonresident members of fish and
game clubs by Ma1sa chusetts, Rhode
Island and Quebec In Virginia nc
license is required of bona sfide gueste
of residents. and in Ontario mo fes
is charged for guest license.
In Maine, Con wild lands of the
state, except from December 1 to 15y
South Dakota, Wyoming, New Brun-
swick Con wild lands), and Nova SEQ
tia. non-residents are not permtttad