192 FIELD SHOOTING. 



The place called the Inlet, at the east end of the 

 swamp,, some miles from Skunk's Island, is famous 

 ground for ducks. The Winnebago Swamp is 

 very extensive. What h called the Outlet runs 

 into Green Eiver, all along which stream there 

 is very good duck-shooting. In the big pastures, 

 which are sometimes four or five miles long and 

 one or two miles wide, there are often ponds at 

 which the bullocks being fatted for market drink. 

 At these ponds great shooting over decoys is often 

 to be had. On Mr. Sullivant's great farm in Ford 

 County there are many ponds and many extensive 

 corn-fields, and I found last spring that the shoot- 

 ing of geese, ducks, and crane there was very good 

 — so good that I mentally resolved to go there 

 again next season. In two days' shooting, morn- 

 ings and evenings, not over decoys, but as the 

 wild fowl came to and went out of the corn-fields, 

 I killed sixty-five mallards and pintails, mostly 

 mallards, five brant geese, twenty sand-hill crane, 

 and three large white crane. Yet I was told that 

 <he ducks and brant had mostly all gone north 

 before 1 was there, and that they had been much 

 more abundant than they were in the two days 

 1 shot. Mr. Sullivant's foreman saw my ducks 

 and cranes at the station, and made his remarks 



