Weekly journal-miner., 1917-10-17
SEASON IS TIME OF MANY
 VIOLATIONS
ANNOUNCEMENT IS MADE
 THAT STATE GAME WAR DEN WILL VIGOROUSLY
 PROSECUTE ANY CAUGHT IN UNLAWFUL SHOOTING

PHOENIX, Oct. 11-With the deer
 hunting season of 1917 in Arizona
 ten days old, violations of the rigid law already are being reported to the office of Joe V. Prochaska, State game warden. As every sheriff, dep uty sheriff and member of the forest rangers are deputy game wardens, as we'll as the regularly appointed depu- | ties, it makes many score of officials who are on the watch for violators of he State game laws. Those who have
 been detected and arrested have re- ceived stiff fines for their disregard of the State laws protecting the big
 game.
 Arizona is one of B States in the Union with an open season on deer.
 the other Is States having no big game hunting because the deer have
 been exterminated or because ths stock has beer so reduced that the season is closed.
 The open deer hunting season in the B States ranges from four days n New Jersey and six days in Massa-
 chusetts and Vermont, to two months or more in some of the Southern and Southwestern States. The season opened in August in Oregon and in most parts of California; in Septem- Der in the rest of California and in | Idaho. South Carolina and Virginia;
 in October in Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Georgia, Montana, Wyom- | ing. Washington, Nevada. Arizona and New Mexico: in November in | Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin and several of the Southern States; and in December in Pennsylvania In about | one-third of the States the law allows the hunter one deer year, and Tn most others two.
 | The department of agriculture urg-
 $ all persons to cooperate to secure the best possible protection of deer SO as to get the maximum amount of venison as a source of meat. It IS estimated that about 5000 deer are
 killed legally in the United States
 each year. These produce nearly lO,-
 100000 pounds of venison. The oio- Illogical survey of the United States | department of agriculture says that this number of deer can be very large
 ly increased, since only two or three States produce more than 10000 deer
 I year apiece, and many less than | .OOO. When HOO deer are obtained lin a State as densely populated as | Massachusetts it should not be diffi- cult. says the department, to increase the total in the other States by at least g per cent. Every pound of vcnison brought in from the woods should be made to save pound ot Ibeef. mutton or pork raised on ranch l or farm.
 l The cooperation of game commits | sioners. conservation associations and | other organizations is requested by | the department as ar aid in securing l accurate reports of the number ot deer killed in each State this year. Such reports should prove of value for comparison with the returns from | other years and may tell whether the number of deer annually taken in any State may be increased without im- pairing the breeding stock
 l In IS States the law allows both
 bucks and does to be killed. In the
 other States does are protected at all seasons. The United States depare' ment of agriculture strongly urges
 that these Is States should make the
 next season closed one on does. II points out that about l0.OOOIOOO pounds of venison are produced in year. Since the doe as rule average less
 in weight than bucks of the same age, killing doe instead of buck usually means considerable less meat. Furth- ermore. the department points out
 that the supply of deer will not in-
 crease if the breeding stock IS killed of. The rapidity with which deer in- crease when does are protected IS shown by tine experience in Vermont Pennsylvania and other States, and
 doe spared this Fall means one more fawn. as we'll as one more doe next Spring.