Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1910 — FARMERS ARE EXEMPT. [ARTICLE]

FARMERS ARE EXEMPT.

Miles Would Not Require Them to Have Fishing Licenses. George W. Miles,, state fish and game commissioner, has decided on the following details, to be included in a measure he proposes to introduce at the next session of the general assembly, concerning the licensing of fishermen: - 7 ATI jvomen and all persons under twenty-one years old are not dp be reqtrired to take out such licenses ; all farmers will be entitled to fish without licenses; all pefsons may fish in the lakes and streams of the counties in which they live without being required to take, out licenses ; all money derived from the issuance of such licenses shall be used for the propagation of fish in the lakes and streams. “The proposed measure,” said Mr. Miles, “is to protect the farmer and landowner against the fishermen who go out from the cities and towns to places distant from their'homes and fish without contributing in any. way to the care of the lakes and streams, Thousands of people living in the cities and towns flock to the northern lakes and streams, where they spend weeks in fishing. The farmers give their time and money to protect the streams,

but the professional vacationist gives nothing in return for what he gets. “Futhermore, the hunters of the state who pay for hunter’s licenses have a right to ask that the money thus collected be used in propagating the game of the state, and they object when any of it is spent in protecting the fish. I believe that if the law is enacted with the provisions I have mentioned, no one can justly object to it, and that we will have a proper means of increasing the number of fish. “I would not collect any fees from the farmer and the landowner, because tihdy are doing much to prevent the destruction of the fish of the state.”—'lndianapolis News.