The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1531 
We Tan Them, You Wear 
any tame or wild animal hide 
Cow, Horse, Deer, Bear, 
mink, muskrat, skunk, ’coon, 
fox or other skins, tanned, 
mounted or made into fur 
auto robes, rugs, coats, caps, 
vests, gloves, muffs, scarfs, stoles. 
Blankets made from your own wool. 
FREE-BIG CATALOG-FREE 
Illustrated by living models. How to prepare hides 
for shipment. Prices for tanning, making garments 
I om your own furs and complete garments. We 
will save you money on tanning, taxidermy and 
$10 to $50 on beautiful fur clothes. 
Rochester Fur Dressing Co., Inc. 
4t> Crescent St.. Rochester, N. Y. 
Wc Tan 
and make to 
your order from 
your Cattle, Horse and all kinds 
of Hides and Furs, Men’s Fur 
Coats, Robes, Caps, Gloves, 
Mittens, Ladies’ Fur Coats and Fur 
Sets. Repairing and remodeling 
latest styles. Ship us your work 
and save one-half New Galloway 
Coats, Robes, Gloves and Mittens 
for sales. We are the oldest Gallo¬ 
way tanners ; 38 years continuous business. 
Free Style Catalog, prices and samples. Don’t 
ship your hides and furs elsewhere until you 
get our proposition. HILLSDALE ROBE & 
TANNING CO., Hillsdale, Mich. 
When you write advertisers mention 
The Rural New-Yorker and you'll get 
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guaramee editorial page. 
The New Yankee $ T 73 
Dependable, as always, but 
with many new features of 
grace and beauty. 
Waterbury Gold-filled 59 50 • 
4 jewels; stylish 12-size. Very 
modern green or white 14-k 
gold-filled case. Scratch dial 
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FUR BUYERS 
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market and we sell direct to American and foreign buyers. 
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GEO. I. FOX, Inc. 
Raw Fur Merchants 
190 West 25th Street New York City 
Where Did the Wild Pigeons 
Go? 
What became of the wild pigeons that 
used to come every Spring and built 
their nests and hatched out their young? 
Years ago they were to be found in most 
any woods, but the main part of them 
nested in evergreen woods on edge of 
Rand Hill in town of Altoona. They 
would occupy over five miles of thick 
woods and hatch thousands of young. 
Hunters used nets to trap them for mar¬ 
ket. Some 65 years ago they left in the 
Fall and have not been seen since. That 
year a few built their nests in an apple 
tree in the garden about eight rods from 
the house on my father’s farm on Cum¬ 
berland Head. They hatched a pair and 
were quite tame. They stayed during the 
Summer, expected them back in Spring, 
Plattsburgh, N. Y. R. M. c. 
The fate of the wild pigeons is one of 
the great questions that must always re¬ 
main unanswered. The general fashion 
at present is to make an easy reply by 
saying that they were killed by hunters. 
That, however, is not quite proved. Cer¬ 
tainly, millions were so killed and, per¬ 
haps, some of the smaller flocks were de¬ 
stroyed and the larger ones much re¬ 
duced. It seems probable that they 
crossed the Gulf of Mexico in their mi¬ 
gration southward or northward or both. 
Birds do not always follow the same 
route going south in the Fall and return¬ 
ing in the Spring. 
Some of the old records seem to indi¬ 
cate that there was a very large flock 
which passed over the Southern States 
on the Fall migration and did not re¬ 
turn. There are accounts in some of the 
sporting magazines that this flock met 
a severe storm near the middle of the 
Gulf of Mexico and was destroyed. All 
we can be sure of now is that the wild 
pigeons were very numerous and prac¬ 
tically disappeared within the space of 
perhaps five years. There were a few 
small bands seen as late as possibly 40 
years ago and the last known specimen 
died a few years ago. 
Birds often suffer terribly on their mi¬ 
gration flights. Not many years ago 
almost the entire bluebird population of 
New England and New York encountered 
an ice storm and perished. The few that 
survived have built up the population. 
In the case of the pigeons the few sur¬ 
vivors were hunted severely and could 
not recover. To that extent, at least, 
the hunters are to blame for the extinc¬ 
tion of the species. Alfred c. weed. 
Illinois. 
Keeping: Fish Pond Clear 
The goldfish article on page 935 leads 
me to ask how I can keep the water clear 
in my fish pond. My pond’is built of 
cement, 7 by 14 ft. and say 2 ft. deep. 
Of course it is out-of-doors, and is fully 
exposed to the sun. It contains pond 
lilies, some water plants and about 50 
goldfish. The plants do not grow very 
well, the fish keep healthy—the trou¬ 
ble is to keep the water clear. Probably 
it gets too warm; however, when the 
faucet is slightly open and a little cool 
water flowing in steadily it seems not 
to help. A. s. p. 
The question does not state how warm 
the water gets in Summer, but it is not 
probable that it really gets dangerously 
warm if the fish thrive. What kind of 
water plants is meant, simply some plants 
that grow with their roots in water or 
some thing like Cabomba, Anacharis or 
wild celery which grow entirely under 
water? For some unknown reason, wild 
celery or tape grass seems to be a great 
help in keeping the water clear in a 
pond. 
The pond does not seem to be over¬ 
stocked, so far as the oxygen needs of the 
fish are concerned. I am not sure about 
the food. Water fleas, or Daphnia are 
a great help and will keep the water 
clear if they can live and multiply with¬ 
out too much disturbance from the fish. 
Goldfish will eat some of them under any 
conditions and may keep them pretty well 
cleaned out if not fed enough otherwise. 
Daphnia can be collected in pools and 
ditches where there is a deposit of rot¬ 
ting vegetable matter by dipping with 
a cheesecloth net. They can sometimes 
be bought from dealers in aquarium sup¬ 
plies. It is almost impossible to describe 
Daphnia so that one who does not know 
it can find out where and how to get it 
but the science teacher in a high school 
or an intelligent dealer in aquarium sup¬ 
plies can show what and how to collect 
in a few minutes. Alfred c. weed. 
Illinois. 
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LET US TAN 
YOUR HIDE; 
Horse or cow hides, calf, dog, deer, 
etc., made into coats (for men or 
women), robes, rugs or gloves. Or 
we tan your hides into oak tanned 
harness, sole or belt leather; your 
calf skins into shoe upper leather. 
Any desired color. FINE FURS, 
such as fox, coon, skunk, mink, 
muskrat, etc., made into latest 
style coats, muffs, vests, caps, 
neck-pieces or other garments. 
No Middleman Needed 
In Dealing With Us_ 
Factory prices mean a big saving to you.Write 
for free CATALOG and STYLE BOOK. Tells 
how to take off hides, about our safe dyeing 
process on cow, horse and calf skins. Gives 
prices on all work. If you haven’t enough pelts 
for garment you want, send what you have and 
we will supply the rest; or garment can be 
made complete from high grade skins we carry 
in stocks Furs repaired or remodeled. Estimates 
if desired. Automatic cold storage. Taxidermy 
and Head Mounting. Write today. 
The Crosby Frisian Fur Company 
Largest custom tanners and furriers iir the World 
593 Lyell Ave., Rochester. N. Y. 
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