Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

     In a recent trip to Sparta, Wis., Messrs. R. O. Earl and C. H. Rice, of this city, indulged in pigeon hunting on a grand scale. They visited a pigeon roost and captured between 800 and 900 pigeons, nearly all young ones. They were taken with nets and are now being fattened in Waukegan. They report that region as fairly alive with pigeons when they arrived there, but the birds have since flown. One man sowed twelve acres of wheat, but the birds lit down upon it in countless thousands and in an hour not a kernel could be seen. Under the laws of Wisconsin no one is allowed to set traps or nets nearer to a roost than one and one-half miles. The birds have gone northward and our hunters are half tempted to follow them.