Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1910 — PRAIRIE CHICKENS PROTECTED. [ARTICLE]

PRAIRIE CHICKENS PROTECTED.

George W. Miles, state fish and game commissioner, has called the attention of Benton county sportsmen to the fact that the general assembly of 1909 enacted a law r making it an offense to kill a prairie chicken within six years from the time the act became a law. Benton county hunters took exception to orders posted by state game wardens against shooting prairie chickens, and appealed to the state commissioner for an official statement of the law. Under the act, prairie chickens are given equal protection with Hungarian quail and pheasants., • •• '