The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-11
Ohio and Pennsylvania Require
Hunters to Wear Badges.
Six Other States Prohibit the
Use of SiIencers.
GAME LAWS ARE SET FORTH
In Bulletin Issued by Depart
ment of Agriculture.
Game Preserves Are Being Es-
tabIished i'm Many Places.

Washington, Oct. 11.-Ohio an6
! Pennsylvania now require hunters &c
| wear a badge conspicuously exposed
bearing the number of their hunting
! license, according to bulletin No. y
! of the department of agriculture, set:
/ ting fourth game laws OF the Umteo
/ States and Canada for 1913.
Hunters are required by the authorl-
! ties of Manitoba to wear a white coat
! or sweater and cap while those who
! hunt for big game in Saskatcnewan
| cap of white.
| Maine, New Jersey, North Dakota,
I Washington, Mississippi, LOUISIANA
use of silencers. Connecticut has pro-
vided that any hunter who shall 1nJure
a fence or let down bar without re-
placing it shall forfeit his hunting
license and the license privilege for
Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Brit
ish Colum bia require license appl1-
cantS under 1 6 years of age to furnISn
the written consent of parent or guar
dian. Vermont has a similar restr1c-
ton for those under Is, and Oregon
does not permit children under IA
years old to hunt except on the prem
ises of their parents relatives or
Numerous states are restocking pre-
serves with elk and other big game.
In the effort to protect this game,
pennsylvania, V ef11Onl, west FlIS1I1ci
and Wisconsin have protected elk for
a term of years, and in Massachusetts
where a few moose have escaped from
the Blue Mountain Forest reserve into
the adjoining. woodlands, perpetual
close season for moose has been pro-
vided in the hope that this area may
eventually be reStocked from this
nucleus.
State Game Preserves.
During the year Is states created
oar
States and four in Manitoba. In Wash
ington the county game commissioners
were authorized to create game pre-
serves, not to include more than three
authorities of Michigan, Ohio and
Vermont were authorized to esta blish
game preserves by contract on private
lands.
One of the marked features of the
legislation of the year was the unusual
progress in the establishment of bird
and game refugees. By executive order
four national bird reserves were crea-
ted, the Aleutian reservation, contain
ing the entire chain of A1eutian Is
lands, in Alaska, and the smaller res
ervations of Walker lake in Arkansas,
Petit Bots Island on the coast of Ala
bama and Anaho Island in Pyramid
lake, Nevada, thus bringing the total
number of national bird reservations up
to "a. Recently the Niobrara bird res
esrvation has been enlarged and stock
ed with a herd of buffalo, elk and deer
A number of changes in laws pro-
tecting big game were made during the
year. Colorado and North Dakota pro-
hibited all killing of deer for a term
of years and Saskatchewan has provided
a close season throughout the year for
all big game south of latitude 81 de-
grees. Laws protecting does at all sea-
sons We're enacted in Florida, Nevada
and Wyoming. The deer seasons We're
shortened from two weeks to two
months in Utah, Wyoming and Quebec. J
New Hampshire heightened the season
two weeks in Coos county, Vermont, 10
days, and Massachusetts opened the
season in the few closed counties thus
permitting shooting throughout the
state.
Hunting Area Limited.
Wyoming and Montana, heretofore
affording the principal hunting for elk
and sheep, have recently limited the |
hunting area to a few counties in each |
state, where the seasons have usually |
been shortened. Wyoming has adopted |
the innova ton of allowing the killing
of female elk only under ordinary res
ident licenses and requiring licensees to
obtain a special SIS license to kill a |
bull or an additional COW.
The most important changes in sea-
sons are due to the passage of the |
federal law protecting migratory birds.
-
department of agriculture, spring shoot
ing is entirely eliminated and the sea-
sons materially shortened in several
states.
Restriction of hunting and greater
uniformity of laws is the general trend
Of state legislation in the matter of
seasons. Florida repealed all local
game laws and made the seasons uni
form throughout the state and the
passage of a measure in Wisconsin
4 do fiy0Cr IoA I,+@ e.,
upland game as is in force in Mime
sofa and North Dakota, illustrates the
fact.
Closed Season on Quail.
New York placed a closed season on
1uail for five years and Kansas added
both quail and prairie chickens to the
closed season list until 1918. Ohio
hunting of quail, ruffed
grouse, and doves for two years.
pennsylvania eliminated the open sea-
son on doves, kildeer, plover and
olackbirds, while Utah extended COM
olete protection to doves, swan and
III shore birds except snipe. This
rend of legislation during the last
year has been toward e1ecting the
closed season.
Delaware shortened the season on
lucks a month and ON geese two
weeks; Indiana curtailed the season ,
luail and ruffed grouse: Michigan, 16
lays on woodcock; and Missouri, one
month on quail; Oregon shortened
he season As days on doves and
pigeons, six weeks on shore birds, rail.
md geese, and west of the Cascades
the season on ducks II s
lays. New Jersey shortened the open !
eason 26 days on upland game and
days on woodcockS, while Penn {
ylvania cut down the woodcock sea-
on two weeks. In Utah As
lays We're taken off the open sea-
on on sage hens and in Wyoming one !
Month on SAGE grouse and two months