HOUSE AND GARDEN 
250 
October, 1913 
BeautifulWood Finishes 
in any of the various effects of oak, 
mahogany, walnut, cherry, etc., are 
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181 CAYUGA STREET, SENECA FALLS, NEW YORK 
The Slaughter of the Wild Fowl 
(Continued from page 205) 
and then if they are observed we have a 
record of their appearing on our coast in 
autumn which is of sufficient interest to 
be noted in the proceedings of scientific 
societies. If we follow the wanderings of 
these birds farther we find them journey¬ 
ing on to Argentine and northern Pata¬ 
gonia. In the spring they go north by an 
entirely different course. In an almost 
straight line they proceed up the eastern 
edge of the Andes through Central Amer¬ 
ica and thence along the Mississippi Val¬ 
ley and on away and away to the tundra 
country washed by the waters of the Arc¬ 
tic Ocean. Many other shore birds take 
annual journeys almost as great as that of 
the golden plover. 
It would seem that in all the vast area 
over which wild fowl and shore birds 
travel some region might be found safe 
from the attacks of man; yet such is not 
the case. There is scarcely a day from the 
time one of these birds learns to fly that its 
life is not in danger from its great human 
enemy. In many regions of Alaska and 
Canada wild fowl are destroyed during 
the nesting season. Particularly is this 
the case with various species of wild 
geese. At the close of the nesting season 
the birds molt. Geese lose their wing 
quills and for a time are incapable of 
flight. It is then that the Indians and 
Eskimos send their dogs into the sloughs 
and ponds to kill or drive out the helpless 
birds. When a few weeks later they begin 
to arrive and feed on the wheat stubble 
fields of Alberta and the Dakotas they 
find hunters lying in wait behind haystacks 
and in many a shallow pit. 
Farther south where the country is more 
thickly settled there is hardly a river or 
pond where they can alight without fear 
of the ever-waiting hunter. Those which 
escape death reach their winter feeding 
ground along the Atlantic coast only to 
find it literally swarming with men des¬ 
perately anxious to kill. Not only are gun¬ 
ners everywhere, but ingenious traps and 
nets are arrayed along the Virginia 
shores and thousands of birds are caught 
in them every winter. In Currituck Sound 
alone about four hundred families have of 
recent years been supported by the 
slaughter and sale of wild fowl. Down 
in the old abandoned rice fields of South 
Carolina and Georgia the killing of ducks 
goes on unceasingly. Cruise the waters of 
Florida in winter, and in almost every bay, 
river mouth or sheltered cove you will find 
men with guns in motor boats chasing the 
little scaup ducks which abound in those 
waters at that season. So great is the 
demand for ducks in the market of the 
land that the days are not long eno gh to 
kill all that are needed. When the black 
ducks and mallard, which have been forced 
by hunters to remain in the open places 
from early morning, come to the fresh 
water marshes at evening to feed, they 
often find their destroyers lying in wait. 
“Dusking ducks,” this practise is called. 
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