Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-10-18
BIRD SEASONS
TOOPEN OCT. 20
Partridge Season Will Embrace Per-
iOd From October 20 to NOvem.
Der I'm Pine County.

Open seasons for the legal taking
OF ringnecked pheasants, bob-white
quail and native partridge or ruffed
grouse will start in certain specified
Minnesota counties Saturday noon,
October 20. There are short and
long seasons on ringnecked pheasants,
and ruffed grouse which are better
known as native partridge.
Hunting of upland game birds is
limited this fall to afternoons only
from II o'clock noon to sunset each
day, although migratory waterfowl
and shore birds that are opened to
hunting may be taken from sunrise
to- sunset each open day, Erling Sven
son, director of the division of Game
and Fish, pointed out. BY executive
order, only male ringneck pheasants
may be taken this fall.
The long season on ruffed grouse
or native partridge opening at noon
October 20 and ending at sunset No
vember includes ten northern coun-
ties. These are Cook, st. Louis,
Koochiching Beltrami, Itasca, Cass,
Carlton, Pine, Aitkin and Kanabec
counties.
Ten counties are included in the
short ringnecked pheasant season
which opens October 90 and closes
October %, both dates inclusive, with
shooting afternoons only. These coun-
ties are Houston, Fillmore, Mower,
Winona, Olmsted, Dodge, Wabasha,
Norman, Clay and Wilkin.
Freeborn, Faribault, Martin, Jack
son, Mobiles, Rock, Pipestone, Murray,
Cottonwood, Watonwan, Blue Earth,
Waseca, Steele, Goodhue, Rice, Le-
Sueur, Nicollet, Brown, Redwood,
Lyon, Lincoln, Yellow Medicine, Rem
vile, Sibley, Scott, Dakota, Washing
ton, Hennepin, Carver Mcleod,
wa, Lac qui Parle, Big Stone, Swift,
Traverse, Stevens, Pope, Stearns,
Sherburne, Anoka, Chisago, Isanti,
Pine, Kanabec, Mile Laos, Benton,
Morrison, Todd, Douglas, Grant, Of
tertail, Wadena, Grow Wing, Aitkin,
Carlton. Cass, Hubbard and Becker
counties are included in the long ring
necked pheasant season starting at
noon October 20 and terminating at
sunset November 4.
Quail may be taken from noon Oc-
tober 20 to sunset November 4 in
Sherburne. Wright, Carver, Sibley,
Scott, Dakota, Olmsted, Winona, Fill
more and Houston counties.
Hunting of ruffed grouse or native
partridge will be permitted in Kittson,
Roseau, Lake of the Woods, Marshall,
Pennington, Red Lake, Polk, NAH
nomen, Clearwater, Becker, Hubbard,
Grow Wing, Morrison, Mile Laos,
Goodhue, Winona, Fillmore and Hou
ston counties during the short season
starting at noon October 20 and end
ing at sunset Oct. %.
Bird Limits.
Three ringnecked pheasants, males
only, may be taken in one day, not
more than six are allowed in pos
session, with IS birds the limit for
the season. Limits on quail are six
per day and IL in possession. Daily
| limit on ruffed grouse or native part
ridge is five birds with 10 as the pos
L
session limit.
Not more than Is game birds of all
kinds in the aggregate may be taken
by any one person in one day, Mr..
Swenson cautioned. He also warned
that not more than 80 birds in the
aggregate of pheasants, ruffed grouse
and quail may be taken by any one
person during the open season.
Director Swenson also called at
tention to the closed season this fall
on Hungarian or gray partridge and
Melanistic Mutant or black pheasants.
Both of these varieties of game birds
have been successfully introduced in
Minnesota.
indicative of the numbers of var
ious kinds of small game in the state
| is the fact that every county in Min
nesota with the exception of Ramsey
which is game preserve, will have
some form of upland game bird hunt
inn Mr.