The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-10
HUNTERS STATE CAME PLENTI u
 PRESENT SEASON
Rigid Enforcement of Last Few Years Is Cause of Abundance of Wild Life
 in Alabama

The hunting season is in full blast a bounty of game. Sporting goods dealers declare that the demand for guns and ammunition Is unprecedent- ed. Landowners say they never en- eountered so many people who wish to hunt And the game wardens say Watch your step"
 The quail season opened November I. and will coptinue until March 1. The squirrel season opened ,Septem Der 5 and will continue until Feb ruary 1. Doves may be killed from October 16 to January 3l, and wild turkey gobblers from December l to April l. Most of the hunting done around Birmingham Is for the varieties of game just listed with quail, squirrels and doves holding places of highest interest, except for. yes, the lowly rabbit, and the open season for rabbits never closes.
 Game wardens attribute the abun- dance of game to the rigid enforce ment of game laws during the last few years. Ted cottrell, United States deputy game warden, and J. II. McAllister, state game warden, look after the enforcement of these laws in Jefferson and adjoining countless MT. McAlllster's duties take him all over the state. In com menting on complications that often befall hunters, MT McAllister said:
 License sf to $i5
 We never have much trouble from hunters who have started out with the deliberate purpose Of volat- ing the game laws. But whether de- lberate or not people who violate these laws must be made to know that there would be no game If the old freedom were allowed 10 pre- vail. The laws are not complicated, and a few minutes in making soms investigation before going into the ment. To the man who lives in the city. the situation is about this: Get your license; learn the open season for your game: get permis- sion from the landlord on whose land you hunt; when you kill your quota for the day, come home. The man who observes these rules will never be molested by ganfe laws.
 hunting license may be secured from the probate judge. fees being sl for county. s3 for state and sl5 for non-resident Landlords may hunt on their own land without q license. and tenants may hunt with out license on the land they lease Others must have license.
 Birds Are Protected
 However. license does not give permission to hunt on miscellaneous territory without permission from the owner. and the permission must be in writing before it Is legal Fi- nally. with licenses and plenty Of written permission to hunt. there is a limit to the game that may be ba geed in one day--xes. legal limit. Twenty five quail may be killed in one day. but if you kin this number you are not allowed to cease hunting quail and start for the dove haunts. Doves and quail or any combination of protected game birds would go against. the 25.
 MT. McAllister said that one of the most frequently violates .aws was that protecting birds not generally considered as listed under The game laws The only birds not protected by law are sparrows. hawks. hug yards and crows 1t is unlawful to kill any other bird except these four, except when the game laws specifically state certain game bird may be Killed
 Fresh rabbit is a choice bit of meat and this. along with the fact that the season never closes. makes the rabbit the most universally hunted animal in existence.