The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-10-11
MANY CHANGES
IN GAME LAWS
Maine Has Forbidden the
Expectation of Deer by
Residents
= ~
-FOUR STATES
PROTECT GROUSE
Have Made Closed Season on These
Birds-Deer Season Shortened
cial Game Refugees Authorized-$1
License Is Popular.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 11.-Forty-one
state legislatures have made more or
less extensive changes in the game
laws this year, as is shown by bulle-
tin just issued by the department of
agriculture. While the number of laws
enacted does not equal the total num-
Der passed IN other years, when most of
the legislatures were in session, the
volume compares favorably with rec
ords of previous years, owing to the
number of states which amended and
codlfied their game legislation Ar
kansas, Illinois, Minnesota, Ohio, Tex
as and Utah, for example, passed gen
eral measures, revising their statutes.
Considerable progress was made along
the line of harmonizing state legisla
ton with the migratory bird treaty
act and the regulations Hereunder In
South Carolina the federal regulations
were adopted as the law of the state.
In New York the season for Long Is
land, and In Arkansas, Illinois, Mime
sofa, Ohio, South Dakota and Texas
/ open seasons or other provisions were
made to conform to the federal regua-
| tons
What is considered very beneficial
| legislation for the protection of big
| game was enacted this year, among the
most noteworthy of which was the ac-
ton OF Maine IN repe8ling the provi-
sion which allowed residents to export
deer. Federal Investigations disclosed
/ that residents of Maine and New
Hampshire had been illegally shipping
large numbers of deer to the Boston
markets, and the magnitude of this IL
/ legal traffic, as Indicated by the con-
4 victlons secured in federal courts. was
| doubtless instrumental in initiating
/ this legislation. = Another most impor-
tant provision of the legislation in
i Maine, and one of far-reaching conse-
/, quenees. was that prohibiting the use
of deer and moose in lumber camps.
The deer seasons were shortened from
/ five to fifteen DAYS in Maine Nesu Mex
leo, Vermont and Wyoming, and for all
deer in Ohio and West Virginia. The
limits on deer was reduced from two to
| one a season in New York and Ontar-
J, 10. Nova Scotia heightened the sea-
son on deer one week and New York
Texas, and Vermont repealed laws pro-
tecting does.
Maine permitted moose to be hunted
during the last ten days of November.
the hrst open season on these animals
since 1915; and Nova Scotia shortened
the open season two weeks.
The grouse season was closed in New
| Mexico, Texas. Vermont and Wyom-
ling; in Maine and Ohio existing open
seasons were shortened; and in West
Virginia the number of grouse allowed
TO be taken in a season was reduced
from twenty five to twenty In Mich
igan and Pennsylvania, where the sea
sons on ruffed grouse were closed in
1918, hunting is again permitted this
year Alberta heightened the season
on grouse and ptarmigan two weeks.
One of the most important features
iof the game legislation of 1919 was the
effort to maintain efficient organiza
tions for the enforcement of the laws.
very general effort was made to keep
pace with the increased cost of living.
which necessitated the payment of a
living wage for warden work and com
ipetition with salaries and wages paid
by private concerns. No less than elev-
en- states-Connecticut, Idaho. Mis-
souri,, New Hampshire, New Mexico.
New York, Oklahoma, Oregon. Texas.
| Vermont and Wyoming-author in
creases in compensation for state war
dens or deputies. In Indiana and Ohio
state game officials were authorized to
fix the compensation of all their EN-
lployes, and in New Jersey the salaries
of certain employees of the board of
fish and game commissioners are re-
CURED to be fixed in accordance with
schedules furnished by the civil serv-
| ice commission.
! Idaho, in keeping with the movement
IN many states, created nine depart
ments IN which to eentralize and syste-
| Matte the civil administration of state
affairs, and placed the fish and game
| bureau in the department of law en-