Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-12-18
FEDERAL GAME Law.
Statement of the United States
District Attorney.

Every true sportsman IS lntereste'i III
securing a strict observance OF the game
Laws, SO likewise is every farmer; 1t means
an increase in game and decrease In
boll weeyils and other harmful insects.
For the conservation OF our game and the
preservation OF our insectiverous and
song birds, am glad to say that both
the federal government and the state oil
Louisiana have enacted stringent sta
tutes. This office is i'm receipt OF many
requests for information as to the federal
law. and | have, therefore, thought 1t
well to prepare this statement, the better
10 acquaint the public with its provisions.
The federal law does not provide the
same regulations and open and closed
seasons for all OF the states, and 50 this
synopss of the law-is intended to cover
the statute only in so far a. it l. appll-
cable to Louisiana.
The federal statute covers only mlgra-
tory birds, and these are classified either
~ migratory game birds or as migratory
insectivorous birds. The migratory game
birds are divided into five groups, as
follows:
(a) Waterfowl, including brant, wild
ducks, geese, and swans.
(b) Cranes, including little brown
sandhill, and whooping cranes.
(c) Rails, including coots, gallinules,
and sora and other rails.
(d) Shore birds, including avocets.
curlew, dowitchers, godwits, knots, oyster
catchers, phalaropes plover, sandpipers,
snipe, stills, surf birds, turnstones, willet,
woodcock, and yellow legs.
(e) Pigeons, including doves and
wild pigeons.
The following are considered migratory
insectiyorous birds:
Bobolinks, catbiris, chickadees. cuck-
DOS, fckers, flycatchers, grosbeaks, hum
ming birds, kipglets, martins, meadow
larks, nighthawks or bull bats, nutllatch-
ers, orioles. robins, shrikes, swallows,
swifts, tanagers, ,titmice, thrushes, vireos,
warblers, waxwings, whippoorwills wood
peckers and wrens, and all other perchins
birds which feed entirely or chiefly on
insects.
Night Shooting Prohibited.
The shooting Of all migratory game
birds is prohibited between sunset and
sunrise.
Closed Season on Insectivorous Birds.
The shooting OF migratory insectivorou'
birds is at all times prohibited.
Five.Year Closed Season.
The shooting of band-tailed pigeons
little brown, sandhill, and whoopint
cranes, swans, curlew, and all shorebirdi
except the black breasted and COLDER
plover, wilson or Jack snipe, woodcock,
and the greater and lesser yellowlegs i
prohibited until September l, 1918.
Open Season
November, December and Januar.
constitute the open season for water fow
including brant, wild ducks, geese ant
swans; for rails, including coots, gall
mules, and sora and other rails; and TO
the following shore birds: avocets, cur
lews, dowitchers, godwits, knots, oyste
catchers, pl,alaropes, plover, sandppers
snipe, stills, surf birds, turnstones, willet
woodcock and yellow legs. The first da
on which shooting is permitted is tn
first of November, and the last day OIL
which it is permitted is the 3lst Of Jan
uary.
The open season for woodcock is fror
November 10Th to January LIST. NOvem
Der 18th being the first day and Decem
Der 3lst the last.
The shooting Of doves, under the Fed
eral statute, is only prohibited betwee
sunset and sunrise. Blackbirds are nc
included in the Federal statute. Bot
dove and the .ed-winged blackbird
however, are classified under the stat
law as game birds, and are protecte
during the closed season therein provided
that is to say, from November first
February 18th. 1t will be noted that Il
closed season, as provided by the sta
law, continues fifteen days longer tina
the closed season provided by the Feder
law.
The Conservation Commission and Il
state officials are doing good work in Il
enforcement OF the state law, and it
my intention to make special effort
get a rigid enforcement of the FEEDER
law.
In this, trust, shall have the hear
cooperation Of everyone, and especia
the farmers, sportsmen and hunt
clubs. All violations OF the law report
to this Office will have prompt attentio
The penalty prescribed by the statr
Is fine not exceeding 500 or impriso
ment not exceeding 80 days, or both
the discretion of the Judge:
GEO. WHITFIELD JACK
United States Attorney.
The Christmas Thought.