New-York tribune., 1901-03-31
PIGEONS SOLD FOR QUAIL.
THOUSANDS ARE BRED IN WISCONSIN, HOW
THEY ARE TREATED.
From The Milwaukee Sentinel

From The Milwaukee Sentinel
When the Western packer who vrar,,,5 -. -
the -Four Hundred offered Ward McAist% 20 Sn[en s1 0n
toast, he did not know the Chances Wsrs quail d on
on was Wiscons pigeon. instead OF Neb.asba n91
dc, mat tne shlGWent OF these quail is an industry
would be surprise to even most NiIvaiII,l hS ooWhS
who as rule. are unaware that about thirty tbd
and sell TO game dealers 1' ''S 10 breed
d;s5r AS matter Of fact. Watertowns quail, in
GuStN Is one which would aStonish the 9ve-aao
W MlIG19sin b;p person by its nagntude Thousands
and the East annually but in M%aukeeC Se CngSgo mia
ib" hlf mus aTThhy there IS almost market for
laws in this State forbid the sale or EtlIn 5ne game
on menu card would bring the game GsrS GerGaGy
around @ d IN GoVeys; The occasional pigeon pie how
In and near that city there are ei9n no less than
foHrteep tboSesI;6 ~ one OF which alone over
smaller cotes are within radius Of FIVE mfIe IHer
largest the e0te s is 40 oaned stGange ag business The
Ri,e MfseLlann II is on the bank of the Rock
IiitEer ana consists of court surrounded on tbree
Sorna S&fi 0g l9M 9Tck buildings like old Cali
granary and in another a remodeiled dUeiIn tsIrrS
with It's Goong. but when thousands of the BIRDS
are bT, ,gurglng at once the sound is audible for
the sound as the millions of feathers beat the ai
when Re roc o % hoTere e5 OF the "a
ms inside the court which forms the big cote there
about, but the majority were under a wire screen
II was almost Ieedlng time, and the doves urara
rying about aimessly those inside the hrick b'iIt
ings peeping out from the cave-dweIer-iiks holes
which spotted the walls between the windows as
If anxious for dinner TO be served -
There were pigeons of all kinds and colors The
cropper. with It's copper colored body. stood out
IN marked contrast to the pure white birds f~gIsd
among those OF more mixed blood. while the rTfia
necks perched on the clothes hanger racks Inside
the wire cage and the blowers puffed out their
throats as If trying imagine that their crons
were full Black and yellow ''tumbIers.F homers
and letter carriers, lived in the same happy
family with the mOngrel, most OF the birds being
those with the changeable cerse and green feathers
which form collar about their necks
Down In the basement of the lofts bags of crushed
corn were warming, and then IL was time To feed
the quail" Three bags of crushed corn ware
for lunch. and three bags more OF broken barley
from the breWeries were TO form the breakfast tn
the morning In the inclOsure there watering
troughs, fed by continuous stream OF water from
a pipe line and on the ground near the trouehs
the bags full OF grain dumped.
While the pigeons focked out from the lofts bv
the thousands, carpeting the ground with their
feathered bodies, the common English sparrovs
gathered about the wire netting shivering and ruff
fling up their featherS<in the cold looking hungrtIv
down at the doves below which were being fatted
for the killing. ~he sparrows could get through the
nettlrss. but dash among the pigeons for a bit OF
corn would be but TO be beaten 70 The srouud un-