The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-11-02
Three Changes Have Radically A.
fectsd Hunting In the Misslsslppl
Valley, According to BuIie-
tin Just Issued.
BAG LIMITS IN STATES
Several Commonwealth Have Put
Lid on Amount Of Game That
Can be Taken-Some other
( Regulations.

Three important changes have radi-
cally affected traffic in game In the
Mississippi valley during the present
year, according to Farmers Bulletin
692 In February the supreme court
OF Arkansas held that local law per-
uniting shipment of game from the
Chickasawba district Of Mississippi
County, Ark, was unconstitutional,
and that the general law prohibiting
shipment of game was in effect in
this county as we'll as in other parts
OF the state. A little later the legis-
lature of Tennessee prohibited the
sale of all protected game taken with
in the state, thereby cutting off the
market for ducks killed on Reelfoot
Lake. Finally, In June, a new game
law was passed in Illinois prohibiting
the sale of all game. native or I'M
ported, except rabbits. For twenty
years or more Illinois has permitted
the sale at certain seasons, of game I'M
ported from other states. Illinois
now not only prohibits the sale, but
also the export of all protected game
except rabbits. Missouri has strength
ened its export law by provision pro-
hibiting export of quail for any pur-
pose.
hag-lfmit law was passed for the
first time in Arkansas applicable to
deer, bear, turkey. quail and ducks.
Limits we're established in Connecticut
on squirrels and waterfowl; In New
Hampshire on quail. ruffed grouse,
the woodcock, and in Pennsylvania on
bear. Indiana which opened the sea.
son on prairie chickens for the first
time in several years, provided a
limit of five birds per day.
Reductions in limits were made on
deer in Alaska from 6 to 3, in Mon
tant from s to 2 and in Michigan
and Nevada from to !. In the case
Of birds, the more important reduc-
lions in daily bag limits we're made
in Illinois on doves from fifteen to
ten: In Iowa on quail from twentv-nve
to fifteen. and on prairie chickens
from twenty-five to eight: in Mime
sofa on all birds except ducks, from
fifteen to ten: in Oklahoma, on quail.
rlover, snipe and ducks. from twenty
five to ten Only a few increases
were provided: In Illinois on shore
birds, in Missouri in birds (except
turkeys) from ten to fifteen, and in
Nevada on quail from fifteen ~
twenty.
Licenses.
Resident licenses were provided TOT
the first time in three southern states
South Carolina and Ten
nessee. Arkansas established 81 IL
cense for deer and 81 license for
dogs used in hunting quail: South
Carolina a license Of 81 for hunting in
the county and SO in the state. but
twenty-seven counties were exempt
from the operation OF the act; and
Tennessee 81 license for the county
and 50 for the state. New Mexico ant
Vermont joined the list Of states
which now issue combined huntins
and fishing licenses. Delaware, follow
ing the example OF West Virginia IL
1918. repealed the resident license
provision adopted two years ago
while West Virginia restored the II
ccnse by issuing free licenses to per
sons hunting in the county Of resi-
dence and requiring a fee Of 50 t.
| hunt elsewhere in the state. Fees 70
nonresident licenses we're reduced II
| Illinois from SIS to SO; IN Maine
elk resident license IN Wyoming from
SIS to $40. New Hampshire ant
! South Carolina, on the other hand, in
| creased the nonresident fee In eacl
4 case from $40 to SIS, and Manitoba
the resident big game license from S
to "a. Exemptions were provided II
a few cases-notably in Illinois, whicl
allows veterans of the civil war t
hunt without license. and in Oregon
which issues free licenses to veter
ans. In the latter state. women ar
| now allowed to hunt and fish withou
license, but in New Mexico. simila
PRIVILEGES are not extended, Nort