Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 292, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1919 — FUR-BEARING ANIMAL RAISERS TO REGISTER. [ARTICLE]

FUR-BEARING ANIMAL RAISERS TO REGISTER.

Persons who wish to raise furbearing animals in Indiana must register with the state conservation commission, fish and game division, the commission ruled at a recent meeting. A fee of $lO will be charged to cover registration and inspection. The commission took this step to protect such animals from unscrupulous hunters who take them out of season. The fish and game division in three weeks of this month brought about more than 250 convictions for violations of the fish and game laws. The number of convictions brought about in the first six months of the last fiscal year, which period was under the former administration and before the establishment of the commission, was 171, the records show. Fees from fines collected in that period amounted to $985. Fees from fines collected in the last six months under the new organization amounted to $3,310. Confiscated furs taken by the division now number approximately 725. The large number is taken to indicate what the officials regard as an appalling number of animais taken out of season. A lively effort will be made to break .up such violation practices.