. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. GAME AS A NATIOiSrAL RESOURCE. 15 It is safe to say that 20,000 ducks are annually killed in Vermont. While there is no lawful market for them, domesticated mallards in the New Yoi'k market are worth per pair $3 and up, but to be conservative these birds are figured at $2 per pair, making the value of the season's bag $20,000, or an annual dividend at 4 per cent on $500,000. LIMITATIONS ON EXCESSIVE HUNTING. BIG GAME AND QUAIL. The results of excessive hunting, and particularly hunting for market, are now beginning to
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. GAME AS A NATIOiSrAL RESOURCE. 15 It is safe to say that 20,000 ducks are annually killed in Vermont. While there is no lawful market for them, domesticated mallards in the New Yoi'k market are worth per pair $3 and up, but to be conservative these birds are figured at $2 per pair, making the value of the season's bag $20,000, or an annual dividend at 4 per cent on $500,000. LIMITATIONS ON EXCESSIVE HUNTING. BIG GAME AND QUAIL. The results of excessive hunting, and particularly hunting for market, are now beginning to be felt in several sections of the country which have been settled for a lone; time or in which agriculture has 7777\ No hunting Bucks onlLj Bucks and does. Fig. 1.—Deer hunting in the United States in 1920. In 15 States (shaded area) hunt- ing was prohibited; in tlie .33 States which permitted hunting, 17 protected does (dotted area). been highly deA'eloped. This is most apparent in the case of big game and quail, the hunting of which is not at present -possible in a number of States. Fifteen States were closed to deer hunting in 1920, as follows: Connecticut, Rhode Island, Delaware, Maryland, and West Virginia in the East; and Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and North Dakota in the Middle West. In Delaware, Ohio, and Indiana deer have been exterminated for some years; in Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, and Mary- land they are nearly gone; in Connecticut they were abundant several years ago, but under a law enacted in 1915, allowing the use of shot-_ guns in killing deer injuring crops, several thousand were destroyed and the species greatly reduced in numbers. Of the 33 States which were open does were protected in 17, while bucks and does both could be killed in 16. (See fig. 1.). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of
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