Arizona republican., 1917-10-08
KEEP CLOSE WATCH FUR DEER HUNTERS
 WHO DEFY THE LAWS

With the deer hunting season of 1917 in Arizona seven days old, viola tions of the rigid law already are be- ing reported to the office of Joe V. ProchaSka, state game warden. As every sheriff, deputy sheriff and mem Der of the forest rangers are deputy game wardens. as well as the regularly appointed deputies it makes many score of officials who are on the watch for violators of the state game laws. Those who have been detected and ar rested have received stiff fines for their disregard of the state laws pro tecting the big game.
 Arizona is one of thirty three states in the Union with an open season on deer, the other fifteen states having no big game hunting because the deer have been eXterminated or because the stock has been so reduced that the season is closed.
 The open deer hunting season in the thirty three states ranges from four days in New Jersey and six days in Massa chusetts and Vermont, to two months or more in some of the south ern and southwestern states. The sea son opened in August in Oregon and in most parts of California; in Sep | tember in the rest of California and in l Idaho, South Carolina and Virginia; in October in Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Georgia, Montana, Wyom- ing. Washington, Nevada. Arizona and i New Mexico; in November in Michi- 1 gan, Minnesota, Wisconsin and several ! of the southern states; and in Decem- l Der in Pennsylvania In about one | third of the states the law allows the hunter one deer a year, and in most 1 others two.
 1 The department of agriculture urges ! all persons to cooperate to secure the best possible protection of deer so as to get the maximum amount of ven i isOn as source of meat. It is esti- | mated that about S0,000 deer are killed | legally in the United States each year. | These produce nearly 10000. 900 pounds of venison The biological survey of 1 the United States department of agri- 1 culture says that this number of deer can be very largely increased, since | only two or three states produce more than 10000 deer a year apiece. and many less than 1000. When HOO deer are obtained in a state as densely pop l ulated as Massachusetts it should net be difficult says the department. tC increase the total in the other states by at least 25 per cent. Every pound oi Venison brought in from the woods
 should be made to save pound of
 beef, mutton or pork raised on ranch
 or farm
 The cooperation of game commis- SionerS conservation associations anC
 other organizations is requested by the
 department as an aid in securing ac-
 curate reports of the number of deel
 killed in each state this year. Suct reports should prove of value for com
 parisOn with the returns from OtheI
 years and may tell whether the num-
 Der of deer annually taken in any state may be increased without impairing the
 breeding stock.
 In fifteen states the law allows botl
 bucks and doe to be killed. In the
 other states doe are protected at al
 seasons. The Unietd States depart
 ment of agriculture strongly urge:
 that these fifteen states should make
 the next season a closed one on doe
 It points out that about 10000, 00t
 0 year.
 Since the doe as rule average les. in weight than bucks of the same age
 Killing doe instead of buck usual, means considerable less meat Furth.
 ermore, the department points out tha
 the supply of deer will not increas. If the breeding stock is killed off. Tn, rapidity with which deer increas, when does are protected is shown b,
 the experience in Vermont, Pennsyl
 vania and other states, and a do,
 spared this fall means one more fawn as well as one more doe next spring.