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From Farmers' Bulletin No. 510, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture
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STATES AND PROVINCES WHICH REQUIRE RESIDENTS TO OBTAIN HUNTING LICENSES, 1912
In Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma and Rhode Island an additional fee of 10 to 20 cents is charged for issuing the license.
Inclosed names indicate States which permit residents to hunt on their own land without license. Nova Scotia has a $o resident license and exempts landowners.
Note that many of the States adopt the French method of exempting landowners, while some, particularly in the West follow the English method of requiring everyone who hunts to obtain a license.
Sympathy of judges for "the poor man" who wants to eat the game to save his cattle and sheep.
Elsewhere there appears a statement regarding the elk of Jackson Hole,andtheeffortsmadeandbeingmadetosavethem. Atthispoint we are interested in the game of Wyoming as a whole.
First of all, the killing of mountain sheep should absolutely cease, for ten years. A similar ten-year close season should be accorded moose and prong-horned antelope. All grouse should now be classed with doves and swans (no open season), and kept
there for ten years.
Spring shooting is wrong in principle and vicious in practice; and it should be
stopped in Wyoming, as elsewhere.
The automatic and pump shotguns when used in hunting are a disgrace to Wyoming,
as they are to other states, and should be suppressed; and the silencer for use in hunt- ing is in the black list.
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