The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-10-22
GAME KILL FOR SEASON OF is4a

GAME KILL FOR SEASON OF 194z
State Game Warden e. Lee Lee
Compile furnishes the following rela-
tive to the kill of game during the
shooting season Of 1912:
Acts of General Assembly Of 1941
provided that every person who pro-
cured hunting license in Maryland
was required to report their kill or
no kill of game for the hunting sea-
, son of 1941.
The General Assembly of 1943 re-
codifed Article SO, Maryland Game
Code, and wrote into it laws pertain
ing to propagation and protection
to fish and Section Is of Chapter
708, Acts of 1913, continued to car
ry the law regarding the report of
kill of game, which is as follows:
| mot later than January Is fol-
lowing the date of the closing of
any hunting season or such other
date as the Commission may fix, each
and every resident and nonresident
who has procured a hunters license
issued in conformance with this Act,
pc it the duty of the licensee to for
ward to the Commission at Balti-
more on a form attached to such Ii
cense, or on a substitute form con-
tanning like information If the origi-
nal form has been mislaid or lost,
report of all game birds and game
animals and fur-bearing animals
killed by him and he shall send to
the Commission the report card at
tached to said license even though
he did not kill any game stating mo
KILL"
The penalty for failure to comply
with this law is Two dollars $4,000.
The report of game kill for the
hunting season of 1941 as reported
by ITO of the hunters was 767,567
pounds. % of the hunters reported
mo kill" This information was very
essential when the committee ap-
pointed by the International Associa-
ton of Game Commissioners and
other organizations appeared before
the War Production Board, request
ing that said Board authorize the
manufacturers of gun shells and rifle
cartridges to release sufficient num-
Der to be placed in the hands of he
dealers and sold to the hunters to
control the game supply of 1913.
DR.. Ira N. Gabrielson, Director of
the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
through his organization, contacted
each Game Commission of the forty
eight States and reported that Amer
lean Hunters took 255,404 900
pounds of disable meat in the form
of game during the 1912 hunting
season, which was as follows:
Rabbits, 6S,7s5,000 lbs; deer,
59,00O,O0O lbs; Squirrels, 22,000,-
900; Raccoons, opossum and wood
chuck, 14,222,000 lbs; other mann
mails, 100000 lbs; ante ope,
moose, bear, 1,650,0O0 lbs; upland
birds, 42,243,00O, of which $4,000
pheasants accounted for 3O,337 lbs,
wild ducks accounted for 32,500,000
pounds, wild geese accounted for 81
900, 900 lbs, doves, bandtails pigeons
600 pounds.
Therefore, we must readily realize
that the kill of game, not only fur
nishes large supply of meat, there
by relieving the drain on domesti-
Gated meats, but also furnishes ex-
cellent recreation beneficial to the
health of those who enjoy day in
the great outdoors.
Game Licensees Season OF 1912
Due to strenuous times, through
which we are passing and the large
number of young men having been
called into the Armed Forces, we did
not receive as high percentage of
reports from License holders re-
porting their kill or no kill for the
hunting season of 1912 as we did Tor
the hunting season of 1941. How
ever, it is encouraging to report that
even with 59.83% of the License
holders making their report, the to-
tai number of pieces and poundage
is higher than for 1941.
The total number of game birds
and game animals reported killed Nor
the hunting season is 1912 was 9Q7,-
4O3 pieces with total poundage OF
1,224,971, or about 613 tons of us
able meat and delicious food which
was used by the hunters and their
friends.
There was total of $1,000 hunt
ers' licenses sold for the hunting
season of 1912, which is as follows:
County resident 63,70S, Statewide,
1886, nonresident, 1851, four-day
wild fowl 615, total $1,000.
The percentage of licenses spld
and reports of game kill received
was 1888 and the percentage of all
reports compares very favorably
with other States where the law has
been in effect for some years making
it compulsory to make an annual
report of the hunters kill or no kill
of game.
If we were to estimate game killed
by those hunters not making an an
nual report, then, without question
of a doubt, our figures would be at