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Show HUNTERS WEAR GIKJCEISE Permit Is Worn on Sleeve on Coats of Hunters in Pennsylvania B l T. HOLLA N I" If motorlstt ' irrled then automobile automo-bile licenses in a pocketbook in their hip "' ket, it would be a rather dif- fi. nit job to enforce the traffic regulations. regula-tions. The reason that laws have born passed reuniting thai automobiles car-r car-r llcem plates where the- can le readily seen Is so that officers al al glance learn the Identity "t" any motorist mo-torist violating the law. Why should not the sttme reasoning reason-ing io applied to the game laws? The usefulness of the game warden ward-en Is often greatly impaired as soon as ills Identity becomes known One i of the warden's principal dutle9 is to see that every one has a hunting license Immediately he asks the 1 shooter tO produce his license the countryside knows that a game ward-' ward-' en is in the vicinity. Could thl war-! war-! den mingle with the shooters without asking any questions and note his II-1 II-1 cense number as a traffic cop checks up automobiles, the problem would ! be much simpler j We do not advocate the wearing of i a metal' license plate, but several! ; states have solved the proplepi by ' one means or another. New York provides that every man afield Nitb a , jfitn must wear a button showing nis it nSe number. Pennsylvania ;" i vldes that it is a misdemeanor 10 be leid wiih n gun without the number num-ber of your licence being worn on i your arm. The Pennsylvania Hoard of Game Commissioners tumishet 'with each license a tag bearliiR the II- cense numbei In figures at 'least one 'Huh In height, which tag said licensee IS required to display on the elbow and 'he shoulder in such manner that the figures be visible at all times while i I hunting. Those cloth bands can be! sewed or pinned around the sleeve ot I your hunting coat. e have ?t received word that I Maryland In recent changes In thel conservation laws ha-; provided for aul arm tag to be worn while hunting, the number bl the hunting license which must always be In the Dossesslon of the licensee when hunting. We beitcve other states win quickly quick-ly adopt this system when OhCe h realize the ma mv advantages I IO . ; i kTION in WISCONSIN The kill of a deer in the northern woods last year was unusualjy heavy. The unprecedented high price of furs -od mail) more men t. trap fur-bearing fur-bearing animals than ever befi . Be-kuse Be-kuse the sportsmen of thai sta-, were awake to the fact, the conservation commission was flooded with petitions to close the seas. -ii o.i niuski.i . ,,,l mink and to put into force the one buck law The Wisconsin law provides that where petitions are presented from one or more counties of the State, asking for added protection of any species of wild animals, the conservation conser-vation commission Is authorize. to hold a hearing in Hi. county In question ques-tion and grant such additional pro-tection pro-tection as the commission shall deem adl ia hie. The Wisconsin law also provides that all trappers, before being abl to obtain a license for the next car. must report the number md kinds oi animals taken. With this data at hand togeih.-r with the information gathered gath-ered from o -rings, the conservation conserva-tion . omm. -si , , 8 in a poslion to make suitable i hangcs In the open season sea-son ami n essafy recommendations to the next legislature when u convenes Mr v. k. Barber, chairman of the State Conservation Commission, writes thai hearingc have bi en held in sixty-nine sixty-nine counties In the state and that It was found that the sentiment was prac-tlcall prac-tlcall unanimous for a closed season on muskrat and mink and that a very lars majority were in favor of the or. buck law. |