The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-10-13

ago by the report that great numbers Of chickens
fsrsssd upon discarded pouitos. a. quarantine ana
the various public hospitals and then sent 10 our mar
kct IL Was found ous that large lot came up from
Barron Island where dead horses and all refuse matters
portion 10 the vas. bulk Of poultry consumed Besides
u 10 doubtful that poultry Of thus sort any worse than
that OF cleaner fattening THAI which goeth nto we
man dehieth him, bu. hardly that which goes INTO ths
chicken
Few persons have any notion Of how We set our
game Tue amateur gunner who goes down the marshes
and nas 10 pick on few rail plovsr strictly on the
wing is dscousolae 10 how thinly settled are the
birds The fact Is that The market people nave been
thefs before bin Canning ~ . trade withn AK noas
travel Of New YORK every where Tue game
capitalist when the ''seed" season begins ON the
Delaware, fits . dozen boats, hires Tor their
feed By the day several crews OF good na;ured
loafsrs who would rather shoot than sleep ADD no pays
them about twenty-five Giants bishs for the birds tnsy
get, himself furnishing the powder aud shot The nect
starts out AZ midnight togsber and a dawn nave TAKEN
possession OF broad belt OF marsh Then the sputter
game after each shot, Both barrels so on At onoethe
reed birds thick and have grown % a thai every
spa,ter laws Them out BY the dossn That night tns
whole "baggingn 10 the way to the city. In hke
manner railbrds taken. Wild ducks are shot Tor
this market upon the Chesapeake chiefly Tho manner
shot and mounted upon = batsau which Is covered
with brush in such . manner IS 10 resemble ''drft."
Ihs ar'lleIss doa down upon lock o. ss
birds start Of the water and then the swivel Is dis
charged into the hock often killing hundred o one
explosion. cartridges taken by cunning parties Who
descend into Delaware and Maryland and the same
and aaas Long Island e tssorss place to xii 10
this party surrounds copse and advances 10
lsssening scrcle into IL Nothing escapes; the dogs
bring In the game In this State game laws are now
pretty rcidy enforced by tho common action Of the
farmers and local Justices Wild pigeons Wild turkeys
and wild geese 20 from the Ohio and AssisNppi
valleys where they stop in enormous focks to foost
night The people ind out their hsunts beat them
on the bushes with poles Ore voileys INFO them and
kill vast quanttiea Sometime market is 20 gorged
with this Western that rots upon the highwayso or
in the cellars where 10 stored Seven hundred barrels
Of plucked pigeons have arrived here in week.
flock OF birds passed the State OF Indiana in 1862 out
Of which eleven thousand killed. and 1t Was sup.
posed that the flock numbered i've hundred thousand.
venson comes to us largely from Indiana Kentucky,
North western Pennsylvania Virginia and northern
New York. Il will keep two months in fairly cold
weather and grow 'gamvn all the time. Four
hundred buck alone were delivered here IN the month
OF January last Elk and moose come seldom TO market,
but sometimes here by amateurs and End their
way 10 market Below are the last winters retail
retail prices for the various sorts OF birds and game