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•Record license Sale
Opens Hunting Season
June* M. Betti*, Clerk of Bap* pahannock county, hat put in one of the busiest seasons the county has seen as the Nimrods rushed the office in purchasing hunting sod Ashing licenses and hear end deerstamps. Cleric Settle had sold out of hear end deer stamps Saturday morning before hunting senson opened on Monday. >'
According to reports frdm tbs Cleric’s office, these wars the tisenses end stamps sold by 'tils' time the official hnntingijlate
State Resident hunting and fish-; lag lieenaea in Rappahannock county, SIS; state hunting, lid licensee; county trapping, 8;>ear and deer stamps, 49;, Nations! forest stamps, SO; state noa*r«eident, bear and deer stamp#,. 2. ,,
The Commission of Game ana Inland Fisheries estimatsa something like 400,000 Virginians own, hunting Un since, and the w , aton believed that at least one of anrsgy four of them opened Are t Monday—most of them at damn*.
Most of . the hunters had, little - luck Monday, unless they made ,v ft early, for the rainy afternoon sea* made n banter home, birdless. "" The Commission predicted that banters should hare good, luck, though, for the weather was predicted to be miH for the opening of the season, and1 the game Ip knows to he plentiful. AH reports indicate that Virginia's game paf* alation is greater than in meant yean. Weather condition hare been excellent for miring woodland creatures and food has been abundant,
Under the gin in most counties will he deer, bedr, turkey, quail, grouse, rabbits, end squirrels.
Hunters should Sad n lot more squirrels in their sights, because, says the commission, nut-bearing trees In the state hare born# nuts -!» la large quantities. " The bag limit in most of the - state—there are some excpptioaa —-<are M follows: quail, | a day, ltd a season; rabbbita, 4 a day, -78 a season; grouse, »a day, 18 a
; turkey, * a day, 4 a sea*
, and pheasant, 4 ,a day, Ml
The general hag limit far deer and bear ip one a season. ; The general hunting season doses on January 20. Dude and geese become legal (targets on November 27. *, J' V' -v: ’ r Of prime concern to the Gsune Commission—and to various state agencies—are the hunters themastro* and tbs forests.
With 100,000 hunters biasing away at ones, the commission has emphasized the obvious dangers, to human life and Umb.
The danger of forest fires is equally obvious. Firs wardens hare' pointed out that the woods oref most of the state ere exceptionally dry, and they hare asked that hunteirs.be particularly careful with cigarettes and camp Urea,
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