The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-03-08
The HUNTING SEASON
CLOSED MARCH lST
UNLAWFUL NOW IN GEORGIA TO
KILL ANY GAME EXCEPT RAB-
BITS AND SNIPE.
ALL LICENSES HAVE EXPIRED

County W aIUen mn says i''f't ~
Permits to Hunt Must Now BE Re
newed. Deer and Turkeys Are
Reported to Be Increasing.
The 1856 open season for hunt
ing closed Feb. %, and fair warning
is given by County Warden Ell G.
Hill that all licenses to hunt expired
at that time. 1t is still open season
for snipc and will be until May /,
and all the year is open for shooting
rabbits. but those who desire to hunt
these species of game will be requir-
ed to have a new license. The new
license. of course, would be good for
a year-untiI the first of next March
Just the same as if it is purchased
latel.
Last Tuesday marked not only the
expiration of all licenses to hunt, but
it also marked the close of the sea-
son for shooting quail or bob white
partridges. doves, wild turkey goo-
blers and plovers. The season for
hunting opossums closed March |,
for hunting cat squirrels January |,
and for hunting deer (buck Only) it
closed December ! Absolute prOtec-
ton is given for a period of years
to fox squirrels, female deer, awns,
turkey hens, pheasants, grouse and
all imported game birds and animals.
The season that has just closed for
hunting throughout the county and
most of Georgia has been a good one,
according to reports. The game laws
having been rigidly enforced for the
past several years in most sections
of the state, and an increase in the
number of game birds and animals is
shown, unless it be with reference to
quail.
Quail being one of the easiest birds
of prey to the hunter and trapper
many authorities claim that it is be-
ing rapidly eXterminated, and
throughout the country there is agi-
tation in favor of federal and state
laws that will provide for the abso-
lutte protection of these birds for rea-
son of their beauty and usefulness.
In this connection attention is
called to a strong article advocating
the absolute protection of the various
species of quail, of which the bob
white cartridges that frequent this
section of the South are conceded
the most beautiful, appearing in the
current issue of Our Dumb Ami
mails" written by DR.. w. Shut
feldt. OF their usefulness he says:
Without going into details | find
that the quails and cartridges of this
country, according to the most con-
sentative computation, save the farm
ers and agriculturists a great many
millions of dollars annually through
their destruction of harmful insects
and the seeds of equally harmful
weeds. Only the other day l read
somewhere that the Hessian fly
causes a loss of $2O,000,0OO every
year to the wheat farmers of the
United States; and that a single quail
killed somewhere out west was found
to have the remains of two thousand
of these Hessian flies in its crop and
digestive tract. A very little COM
putation will quickly demonstrate the
value of these birds in our nation
wide plans of federal economy, in
that the greatest number of our peo-
pie may be benefited, even at the ex-
pense of the few, where the latter
are not deprived of anything save
one item on the menu and the par
tial curtailment of such sport as is to
be derived from the shooting of our
most lovable birds-the quails.'