The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-11-09
LOCAL HUNTERS START EARLY
More Than Hundred Nimrods from
This City Will be in the Northern
Woods When the Season Opens
New Laws to be Observed.

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the annual deer hunting season are
sleeping on their guns and camp equip
ment these days and Thursday more
than a dozen parties of hunters will
leave for the northern woods in order
to be on hand when the first shot III
the deer season of 1911 is fired.
The open season for hunting deer in
Wisconsin will begin at sunrise on No
vember IL and close at sunset on No
vember 80. Within that period it is
expected that at least 5000 deer will
be killed. State Game Warden John
A. Sholts, Sparta, says that deer are
plentiful in the state and that If
weather conditions are favorable more
than 6000 deer will be killed during
the season. He estimates that there
are about 10000 deer in the state.
Some Of them run over into Michigan
and Minnesota occasionally, but most
of them return. The feeding spots in
Wisconsin are the best in the north
west. While the lumber barons were
cutting the pine trees they fed their
big horses with the finest of timothy
and other grasses. Later the roads
and trails Of the northern part OF the
state reproduced these grasses and now
fine feeding lands can be found in all
sections of that part of the state. In
addition considerable proportion OF
the land has been brought under cul-
tivation and the deer go foraging on
cabbage fields and other vegetables.
The foraging of the deer has almost
become a nuisance in some districts
and during the last season of the leg
islature a bill was introduced provid-
ing that the state be liable to prop
erty owners for damage done by deer.
The bill did not become law.
Tt is unlawful for a person to buy,
sell or offer for sale any deer or part
of the carcass of a deer at any time.
Hunters must hereafter kill their deer
themselves instead of buying them of
local hunters, as was often the case in
years past.
State Game Warden Sholts says he
can't estimate the number of hunters
that will be in the field during the
open season for deer, but it will be up
in the thousands. He estimates that
about $4,000 residents have secured
hunting licenses since the season open
ed on Sept. 1, Perhops oneyfourth of
these will hunt for deer. That esti-
mate may be large, but nearly every
adult man in the central and northern
part Of the state has an opportunity
to hunt deer. So far licenses to hunt
deer have been issued to IT'S non-resi
dents. This number may be doubled
by the time the season opens. The
price of license for a resident is ST.
and for a nonresident $25. A non
resident may secure a license to hunt
small game, everything but deer, for
$40. So far this season 459 OF these
licenses have been issued.
If more snow falls in the northern
part of the state, or, rather, if snow
falls in the deer counties prior to the
open season the number of deer killed
will be unusually large, State War
den Sholts says. 1t is well known that
cover OF snow helps deer hunters.
The deer are big and fat this season
as feeding conditions have been ex-
cellent.
State Game Warden Sholts is pre-
pairing to put about fifteen extra depu.
ty wardens on his force for the deer
season. His regular force consists of
sixty deputies. He is planning to put
most of these deputies into the deer
counties during the open season and
will insist on strict enforcement Of
the laws.
Deer may be killed in all but thirty
eight of the seventy-one counties of
the state. The last legislature added
the county of Door to the list in
which deer may be taken. In Milwau-
kee county the hunting Of deer is pro-
hibited, but it is not likely that there
are any wild deer in that county. In
Dane county, however, which comes
under the ban, there are wild deer,
especially in the western part of the
county. Other counties in which the
taking of deer is prohibited are Grant,
Lafayette, Green, Rock, Walworth,
Kenosha, Racine, Richland, Sank, CO.
lumbia, Dodge, Waukesha, Jefferson,
Iowa, Crawford, Buffalo, Washington,
0zaukee, Sheboygan, Fond du Lac,
Green Lake, Pepin, Marquette, Adams,
Vernon, Monroe, Lacrosse, Waushara,
Winnebago, Calumet, Manitowoc, Outa-
gamie, Brown, Kewanee, Portage, and
Waupaca.
State Game Warden Sholts has had
printed $4,000 copies of synopsis
of the game laws of the state. He has
also had printed 100000 copies Of the
laws themselves. The synopsis is in
a folder form and the laws in pamph-
let. Either may be had on appliea-