Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-08-22
1885 HUNTING
DATES ARE: SET
Drastic Regulations Gov
ern Hunting of Some
Game Species.
Three-Shell Repeating Gun
Limit Will be Effective
for First Time.

Legal open seasons for the taking
of ringnecked pheaSants. prairie
chickens, bob-white quail and wild
waterfowl were designated for 1885
by the Minnesota Conservation Com
mission in a meeting Friday in St.
Paul Orders issued by Erling Sven
son. director of the Division of Game
and Fish, Minnesota State Depart
ment of Conservation, will regulate
hunting of upland game birds. An
executive order by Governor Floyd b.
Olson will control hunting of wild
waterfowl, state regulations to COIN
eide with federal stipulations for this
season.
No Ruled Grouse Hunting.
The season on ruffed grouse, other
wise known as native partridge, will
be closed during 1885 throughout the
entire state. Similar closed seasons
were also declared on mourning doves,
upland plover and woodcock. by the
commission, composed of John r.
Foley, Wabasha, chairman; Richard
~.
w. Friedrich, st. Cloud, and r. j. ALL
strom, Minneapolis.
Taking of three male pheasants per
day, with a limit of six male birds
i'm possession, will be legal for nine
half days from October 10 to October
81, both dates inclusive, in the fol-
lowing counties: Houston, Fillmore.
Mower, Freedom, WinOna, Olmsted.
Dodge, Steele, Waseca. Wabasha,
Kanabec, Pine, Carlton, Aitkin, Crow
Wing, Cass, Hubbard. Clearwater,
Becker, Mahnomen, Clay, Norman.
Polk and Red Lake.
Pheasant Regulations.
Twenty half days of ringnecked
pheasant shooting will be permitted
in the other Minnesota counties open
to this form of hunting with a stag
gered season or rest period provided.
In these 81 counties, taking each day
of three male pheasants or two males
and one hen pheasant, with six male
pheasants or four males and two hen
pheaSants as the possession limit.
will be legal from October 10 to Oc-
tOber 81, and from November 9 to
November 10. all dates inclusive.
Counties included in these two
shooting periods are Wilkin, Otter
tail. Wadena, Todd. Morrison, Benton,
Mile Laos, Isanti. Chisago. Scott,
Washington. Anoka, Sherburne,
Stearns, Pope, Douglas. Grant, Stew
ems. Traverse, Dakota. Big Stone.
Swift. Kandiyohi, Meeker, Wright,
Hennepin, Carver, Mcleod, Renville,
GoOdhue, Chippewa. Lac qui Parle,
yellow Medicine, Lincoln, Lyon, Red
wood. Brown, Nicollett, Sibley, Rice.
lie Seuer, Blue Earth. WatOnwan, Cot
tonwood, Murray. Pipestone. Rock.
Mobiles, Jackson. Martin and Fari-
bault
Director SwensOn warned hunters
that ringnecked pheasant shooting
will be allowed only afternoons dur
ing the open seasons with noon mark
ing the opening of each days shoot
ing and sunset each day bringing the
shooting to a close. He also eau
toned that only in certain specified
counties is one hen pheasant per-
mitted i'm the daily bag and two hen
pheaSants in the possession limit. No
hunting is permitted in Ramsey coun-
ty, Mr. Swenson pointed out.
Prairie Chickens.
In fourteen Minnesota counties,
Kanabec. Pine. Carlton. Aitkin. Lake
a. l.
trami, Lake of the Woods. Penning-
ton. Marshall. Roseau and Kittson. it
will be legal to take prairie chickens
from noon September 81 to sunset
September 90. inclusive. Time for
taking will be from sunrise to SUM-
set each day except that the season
shall open at noon on the first day.
Five birds are the daily bag limit
and ten birds may be retained in pos
session.
Quail.
Quail hunting will include % half
days of shooting from October IS to
November 10. both dates inclusive
in Is Minnesota counties. with six
birds as the daily bag limit and Il
birds permitted in possession. These
counties are Houston. Winona, Ohm
sted. Wabasha. Rice. lie Seuer. Da-
kota. Scott. Sibley. Mcleod. Carver
Wright. and Sherburne. Shooting will
be from noon until sunset daily.
Thirty Days for Waterfowl.
Federal regulations will govern TAX
ing of wild waterfowl in Minnesota
during the season this fall with 80
consecutive days of shooting of wild
ducks. geese, jack Snipe or Wilson
snipe. rails and cootS from October
81 to November 10. both dates inclu-