The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-04-03

spring OF during the Of incubation s.cspths Ia
dams who win shoot them at AL times This bird weighs
quite item in the provisional Of house
hold They follow the farmer and precede civil
z.tiCn They are very plenty In an settled parts Of the
Territory and are increasing rapidly, notwithstanding
nests 1t trouble to hunt them in the fail for you
road short time from one town to another In winter
they visit the grain stacks for wheat, &C. and certain
bushes about the farms from which they buds
They are always lat and plump and their legs
" with feathers down 70 their claws The par
fridge is smaller inferior to the prairie hon. and not
numerous.
Besides these,
There Is q bird, who by his coat
And by the hosrseness Of his note,
Might be supposed a crow.
He is not crow, however although he looks exactly
like except as to sze for he big enough TO be the
father Of all crows;-even the jsckass which Paddy
killed while rabbit hunting was as he judged from the
length of his ears the father of all rabbits He eats
Il.
Is all fish that comes to his net He differs from the hu-
man freesoilers in this that they sregarous while
there great resemblance for he makes the most
rible noise when he says anything. II Is the
length from his beak to the end of his tan and was fat
and heavy You will not be surprised that he stays
all winter when you reflect that the is Poelar
bird.
In March are often troubled with high winds and
snow squalls but though it is the most disagreeable
gusty as in the middle States The great difference in
regard to wind between this and the other months Is
caused undoubtedly by the breaking Of winter which
makes great commotion In the atmosphere all the
Union During this month, from the first to the tenth
day. wild fowl of the aquatic tres begin to make their
appearance in vast hocks, (which number /"
seeking the small lakes around the Mississippi and its
sources whore they stay and feed on wild rice
until the latter part Of November, when they
tire to the southwark again. The ice in the river
breaks up and moves along on its way to wards
the Gulf Of Mexico, which 1t reaches; the
disappears, heavy thunderstorm announces the
approach Of spring the earth begins to put her
mantle to the nakedness caused by the departure of
the snow and in short time she is enabled to show that
she ID herself again, like Richard III.
build fence plough and harrow get their fields ready
for seed. In May they plant and SOW The weather
during June July and August, is much the in
the Empire State except that here exempt from
sudden and frequent changes from dry to wet The
son Of this is that we have mountains high hills
to attract the Clouds and them to scatter moisture
81 us. We have rains, to be sure and then, and
in while cracking thunder shower: but what irr
gates the earth is the heavy dew which falls every night
such extent that seeing the drops fall from them
about sunrise you would think that heavy shower of
rain had just passed the land For this the
soil is dried up, and being rich sandy loam the
effect of the heat of the vegetation il surprising
rapidly and beautifully do the plants shoot up and
flourish.
Ny communication is rather long one but TO do the
subject justice could hardly have been more concise
have stated nothing but facts shall in whatever
stories, but will only ga round unvarnished tale de-
liver" of what know myself, 80 that who may
JAYHAwK.