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THE OOLOGIST 



lined with finer straws. The tree 

 was on the banks of Lake Worth about 

 fifteen feet from Wiliams Springs. 

 Ramon Graham, 

 Forth Worth, Tex. 



has studied the problem of feeding 

 and sheltering birds till now he would 

 be able to raise most any bird or 

 fowl living. — Evening News. — W. A. 

 Strong, San Jose, Cal. 



Do you know that Pennsylvania has 

 abolished its crow law? For a time 

 the state offered a bounty of fifty 

 cents for each crow killed. The state 

 paid out about a hundred thousand 

 dollars in bounties before it repealed 

 the law. It was discovered that rats, 

 mice and other pests had increased 

 alarmingly; and the generally ap- 

 proved estimate was that this bounty 

 law had cost the farmers over two 

 million dollars, as well as costing the 

 state over a hundred thousand dol- 

 lars. Illinois had a crow-bounty law 

 at one time, and was glad to take it 

 off the books. Enterprising gentle- 

 of other states were shipping in crows 

 in car lots. They found that the crow 

 had its place in the plans of Nature. 

 — Saturday Evening Post, W. A. 

 Strong, San Jose, Cal. 



Sunnyvale, Calif., Oct. 15. — Mr. A. 

 Bessey, who is the owner of the Jub- 

 ilee Incubator company, has a splen- 

 did array of highly colored birds of 

 all varieties. He has an aviary of 

 about 200 birds, with over 50 different 

 kinds. Many of his birds are of the 

 parrot variety, and are of wonderfully 

 brilliant hues. He has a number of 

 the beautiful little Japanese robins 

 which are no larger than a canary 

 bird. He has rare birds from all 

 parts of the world including Africa, 

 Australia and India. 



Mr. Bessey has been in the business 

 of raising poultry and birds for forty- 

 five years. He is from Canada origi- 

 nally, and holds a wide reputation as 

 a poultry man in this state. He also 

 has some varieties of chickens, one 

 of the finest of which is his prize- 

 winner speckled Sussex. Mr. Bessey 



Do you know that the last pigeon 

 in the world — that is to say, the last 

 one in the Cincinnati Zoological Gar- 

 dens — died some years ago? There 

 will be no more wild pigeons. Pon- 

 dering on this fact, a Michigan sports- 

 man writes a reminiscent letter that 

 is worth remembering by all good 

 American : 



"Our new hotel was opened last 

 night here in Saginaw. I happen to 

 have a bill of fare of the old hotel of 

 the same name, which gave a banquet 

 in the year 1859. There were boiled 

 pike and baked white-fish, among 

 other things. In the roasts, in ad- 

 dition to beef, pork and lamb, there 

 was bear, pigeon, venison, and sev- 

 eral species of wild duck. Among the 

 entrees I note fricasseed pigeon in 

 pates, roast pigeon, venison stake, and 

 so on. 



"What a difference time has made! 

 Our menu of last night for the new 

 hotel commences with Paupiette of 

 Sweetbreads Marechal. I suppose 

 you know what that means and how it 

 ought to be printed — what sort of an 

 animal a Paupiette is. Following this 

 was roast Philadelphia squab and 

 baked potato — and that was the whole 

 of it — all for three dollars. Of course 

 there were, lettuce salad, a little cake, 

 crackers, cheese and coffee. 



"Instead of the passenger pigeon, 

 which literally filled the woods here 

 in 1859, we have gone to Philadelphia 

 for squab; and instead of bear and 

 venison and wild duck, which the 

 Indians brought in, in the days of 

 1859, we have fallen back on Pau- 

 piette and his sweetbreads. So the 

 world wags along!" — Saturday Even- 

 ing Post. — W. A. Strong, San Jose, 

 Cal. 



