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2. Bluebill shooting on the deeper lakes. Shooiing practice in this type has 

 not changed greatly. It prevails on the northern lakes. Wooden blocks only are 

 used. Where celery predominates, as on Lakes Mendota and Kegonsa in Wiscon- 

 sin, it may run heavily to canvasbacks. 



3. Mixed shooting on river sandbars, shallow lakes, and marshlands. This 

 is found in all parts of the region. Both live decoys and blocks are used. 



Table 46 shows a typical local composition of the bag in type 3 shooting on 

 the Missouri River. Table 47 shows a local composition, intermediate between 

 types 2 and 3, in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Type 1 requires no example, since it 

 runs almost all mallards. 



A comparative summary, including the Statewide kill for Minnesota in 1929, 

 and the kill at one of the historic Wisconsin clubs since 1877, is given in Table 

 48. The Minnesota figures represent a mixture of types 2 and 3; the Caw Caw 

 Club figures are type 2. 



TABLE 48. Comparative composition of kill in various States 



Decline of Jacksnipe. The original abundance of jacksnipe in the 

 Mississippi Valley was probably beyond our present imaginative powers. 

 Bogardus (1874) killed 340 in a single day on the Salt Creek bottoms of the 



