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flight. Great bags were made a few years ago, but 

 the heavy shooting has sadly diminished their num- 

 bers in Nebraska and throughout the Mississippi 

 valley. 



I once saw a flock alight on the parade ground at 

 Fort Buford, at the mouth of the Yellowstone, and so 

 long as the Sioux were a menace to the shooters the 

 geese, and in fact the buffalo, elk, deer, and grouse 

 were extremely abundant in that region. The num- 

 ber of the ducks and geese was beyond belief. 



Geese and brant are still very abundant on the 

 Pacific Coast. The San Francisco Evening Post con- 

 tained a short article last September, stating that two 

 shooters, W. E. Newbert and W. H. Young, of Sacra- 

 mento, had recently killed one hundred and seventy- 

 three geese or brant in Glenn County, California. 



The editor of Recreation, seeking material for the 

 '' Game hog " department of th^t excellent little maga- 

 zine, wrote and asked if the fact was correctly stated. 

 Mr. Young replied, stating that they did kill one hun- 

 dred and seventy-three geese or brant in one day's 

 shoot, that is in two hours one evening and in five 

 hours the following morning, but he says the geese in 

 that neighborhood are very destructive to the newly 

 sprouted grain and the farmers are compelled to hire 

 men to keep them off their grain night and day. One 

 hardware firm shipped to the Glenn ranch thousands 

 of rifle cartridges each week to be used in driving 

 geese off the fields. 



A heavy fog causes the geese to fly low and often to 

 alight. They seem to become confused and unable to 

 proceed on their journey to the north or south. 



