Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-09-29
CHANGES MADE IN
GAME and FISH LAWS
Recent Legislature Takes Dras-
tic Action.
All Wild Animals to Receive More Pro-
tectiOn.- No Doe Shooting.
Rules Fer Fishermen.


Changes in the game laws that were
made by the recent legislature have
been so many that the new conserva-
ton commission has issued a state
ment reviewing the changes and warn
ing spOrtsmen that the law will be
rigidly enforced. The state laws are
now uniform with the federal laws
300 Only three weeks, from Nov. IL to Nov
80, is allowed for the shooting of deer
and only the bucks can be killed. On
muskrats the season differs between
the northern and southern counties on
account of the difference in the CHM
ate From now Oil muskrat may be
90 trapped after November Is in the
southern counties and November 1 in
the northern ones.
The raccOOn season is from NOvem-
Der 1, to February L. The season for
J'OO partridge or ruffled grouse extends
from September z to October 81, with
a ten day limit. Prairie chicken, pin
mated grouse and sharp tailed grouse,
90 may be hunted with safety from Sep
TENDER to September 80, at the rate
of five day. Wild duck, including
cOot and mud hen, may be hunt
ed from September to November 80.
/, 90 Wood duck and wood cock have no
open season.
Some of the other features of the
game law are:
Hunting or shooting of migratory
900 birds on the main waters of the Miss
issippi river is prohibited.
Wood ducks, quail, pheasant, Hun
garian partridge, wOodcock, wild
. IN swan and all other wild birds and
their nests and eggs are protected, ex-
cept the English sparrow, crow, black
birds, sharp-skinned and Cooper
hawks and game birds in season. The
100 federal law also protects the smaller
shore birds
It is unlawful to hunt Or shoot wild
birds from any automobile, motorcy-
Gle or any other vehicle, or from any
boat canoe, raft, blind or other de-
vice in or on open water, or any aqua
tic fowl from any boat or craft not
propelled by paddle, oars, or pole, or
tou Sc more than twenty-five decOys
; a. or beyond 200 feet from the blind or
-'0O cover of the hunter, or before sunrise
or after sunset, or aquatic fowl with
a rifle except wild geese.
Open water means, according to the
new law, any water outside or beyond
a natural growth of vegetation suffi-
LOU GENTLY high and dense to conceal the
hunter.
The holder of a resident or settlers
hunting license may kill or carry with
him as baggage or express or in his
0. 90 personal possession any one day: Fiji
teen wild ducks, including American
mudhen; pIover, snipe, rail, rice hen,
ten wild geese, brant; ten partridge or
ruffled grouse, spruce hens.
Wild ducks and mudhens are con-
sidered one variety. If hunter kills
fifteen of them, he may kill or trans
port five wild geese, prairie chicken
or partridge; or he may have the part
LOO ridge and ten ducks the same day,
which makes mixed bag of twenty.
The holder of a nonresident hunt
ing license can not carry with him
more than thirty birds within or with
out this state in any one year.
LOO The possession of any protected
game birds by any person not in pos
session of hunting license is unlaw-
full. Wild duck or deer meat can not
be served or given to the guests or
boarders of hotel, restaurant, club,
camp or boarding house, at any time
600 Game birds can not be bought, sold
or shipped, but must be accompanied
by the hunter on the same train, boat
etc.
Any package or parcel containing
1 90 wild animals or parts thereof must be
labeled in plain letters on the address
side, so as to disclose the name and adj
dress of the consigner, the name and
address of the consignee, and the num-
Der of each variety of wild animals or
parts thereof contained therein. The
q 90 consigner must be the owner of such
package, etc, and must give a signed
statement in his own handwriting to
the common carrier that he is the
owner of the shipment.
1t is a violation Of the state and fed
wv eral laws, also violation fthe post
regulations to ship game birds or any
other wild birds protected by laws,
by parcel post.
The law pertaining to fish remains
600 almost as before. Trout may be taken
at the length of seven inches instead
of six as heretofore. Pike has been
changed from twelve to thirteen inch
es, and pickerel from twelve to six
teen inches. Black bass remains as:
before ten inches. MuscOllOnge has;
600 been changed from eight to five lbs
Sturgeon and it's spawn and fry have
the been given a closed season as this val
in liable fish has almost been eXterminat-
the ed
'oo Charles Wharton, superintendent Of
Si1e the Laurence mine, located in Lafay
7cSC otto county about . miles east of Cub3