My Boyhood and Youth 



they could possible dispose of, when the hogs 

 were let loose to feed on the remainder. 



"The breeding-places are selected with refer- 

 ence to abundance of food, and countless 

 myriads resort to them. At this period the note 

 of the pigeon is coo coo coo, like that of the 

 domestic species but much shorter. They 

 caress by billing, and during incubation the 

 male supplies the female with food. As the 

 young grow, the tyrant of creation appears to 

 disturb the peaceful scene, armed with axes 

 to chop down the squab-laden trees, and the 

 abomination of desolation and destruction 

 produced far surpasses even that of the roosting 

 places/' 



Pokagon, an educated Indian writer, says: 

 "I saw one nesting-place in Wisconsin one 

 hundred miles long and from three to ten miles 

 wide. Every tree, some of them quite low and 

 scrubby, had from one to fifty nests on each. 

 Some of the nests overflow from the oaks to the 

 hemlock and pine woods. When the pigeon 

 hunters attack the breeding-places they some- 

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