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Show Duck Hunting To Extend Through Month November Duck hunters will be subject to the same tight restrictions and 30-day 30-day shooting season this fall that have bound them for the past two years. This season's regulations, approved ap-proved by President Koosevelt and announced by the department of agriculture, again prohibit the killing of wood ducks, canvasbacks, ruddy ducks, redheads, buffle-heads, buffle-heads, swans and Ross's geese. About the only change from last season are sections shifting states from one hunting zone to another, raising the daily bag and possession limit on geese and 'brant from 4 to 5, increasing the bag limit on coot from 15 to 25 and reducing re-ducing the limit on sora rails from 25 to 15. "The regulations represent the continuance of a program that has checked the decline of waterfoul and resulted in an increase in numbers," biological survey authorities au-thorities said. "Reports indicate there has been a notieable increase in most species for the second year in succession. However, the increases are not great enough now to warrant any lengthening of the season or removal of other restrictions." re-strictions." Baiting of waterfowl and doves and the use of live decoys are forbidden. for-bidden. The three-shell limit on repeating repeat-ing shotguns is continued and hunters will be permitted to use shotguns no larger than No. 10 guage. All waterfowl and coot shooting must be done between 7 a.m. and 4 p.m., although snipe, rails, gal-linules gal-linules and woodcock may be hunted hunt-ed until sunset. In the northern zone the season on ducks, geese, Wilson's snipe and coot open October 9 and closes November No-vember 7. In the intermediate zone the season is November 1 to 30. Dates are inclusive. States in the northern zone include in-clude Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Dako-ta, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Wyoming. In the intermediate zone are Idaho, Ida-ho, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah and Washington. Possession of federal duck stamp, sold at post offices, is required re-quired of every migratory waterfowl water-fowl hunter over 16 years of age. o |