Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

Wild Pigeons have been remarkably numerous in the region of Plattsburg (New York) this season. The roost of the birds is in a forest, some six miles long and two wide, each tree containing from twenty to eighty nests. Companies of pigeon-catchers went out from Vermont, and they, with others, have sent more than one-million eight-hundred-thousand birds to the city markets. Seven-hundred bushels of grain were fed out to them in baiting. Hauls have been made of twelve-hundred at a time. The noise made by the birds at their encampment was so great that persons could not converse five yards apart. They disappeared on the 17th of July, taking their flight over the forests north of Vermont, towards Maine. The flight over Plattsburg continued for several days.