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In 1846 Abraham R. Beck saw Miksch was one of the gunners
one of the last great flights of out that day and bagged about
the passenger pigeon. He de- twelve of them.
scribed it as a dense mass cov- Passenger pigeons were
ering the sky a mile wide and the dumbest, messiest and most
extending from horizon to hori- destructive birds ever encoun
zon. Flying at a speed of sixty tered- But they were beautiful,
miles an hour, and more, it took you f anc y Pastels, they were
the flock three hours to pass the most gorgeous thing we ever
over Lititz. His accurate account had around. Their size was about
of seeing more than two billion half again the size of our mourn
pigeons on this April day is val- ln ® doves.
uable in the literature of Amer- William Penn was astounded
ican Ornithology. James K at the flight of wild pigeons and
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for the next 150 years every
spring the heavens would be
made purple with their pilgrim
age to hatching places in the
north. No other bird ever ap
peared in America in such colos
sal numbers. They ate every
thing in sight when they land
ed, including insects. Audubon
estimated it required nine mil
lion bushels of food a day to
feed one flock They were a
curse to the settlers who were
unfortunate enough to have them
light on their farms. When they
approached, everyone turned out
with guns and noise makers to
chase off the “Wilte Douwa”, but
the birds paid no heed and
cleaned up everything, includ
ing trees. If the season was too
late for replanting, the farmers
suffered a real hardship.
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When these birds landed their
weight was so great that two
foot trees would often be broken
down. Fortunately they were a
dainty fare and had a delicious
flavor, whether boiled, baked or
fried and everybody ate them.
The Indians had long been using
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their fnt for both a lard and
butter.
The Dims Knew no fear and all
that was necessary was to go
out with clubs and gather them
up in huge quantities. The going
price was 1c each to the city
markets, but there was often a
surplus that was fed to the hogs.
Then, about a century ago, the
professional pigeoners found it
was much easier to go to the
nesting places and steal the
young from their nests. A bet
ter price could be had for squabs
and they would make as much
as $4O a day while they followed
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