Notes of a Vanished Industry 1 1 i 



Michigan at the same time, and I will give the years 

 and places that I was out. In 1861 a large body of 

 birds were in Ohio roosting in the Hocking Hills, my 

 first year out. We were at Circleville, and my company 

 shipped over 225 barrels, mostly to New York and 

 Boston. The birds fed on the corn fields. In 1862 

 the birds nested at Monroe, Wis. We commenced 

 in May and remained until the last of August. 

 The several companies put up some ten thousand dozen 

 for stall feeding after the freight shipment. Express 

 charges on each barrel were from $7 to $9. In the 

 fall of 1862 we had fine sport shooting birds in the roost 

 at Johnstown, Ohio (now Ada), some four weeks. 

 Then the birds moved to Logan County. After two 

 weeks the birds skipped South, it being December and 

 snow on the ground. 



In 1863 the birds nested in Pennsylvania. We had 

 some fine sport at Smith Port and at Sheffield. We 

 located at Cherry Grove, six miles from Sheffield. The 

 birds fed on hemlock mast. There were other nestings 

 In Pennsylvania at the same time. In 1864, at St. 

 Charles, Minn., we had some fine sport, but our freights 

 were high to New York, so we came to Leon, Wis. A 

 heavy body was nesting in the Kickapoo woods, and sev- 

 eral companies of hunters located here. In 1865 a 

 heavy nesting was in Canada, near Georgian Bay. We 

 were at Angus Station on the Northern Railroad, and 

 the snow was two feet under the nesting. We next went 



