Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1911-02-03

tobtaiped And hunters assert this fl
be literally true times without Nun
! Der.
Think. again. OF ducks settled on
the lake In such numbers that a
masked canoe, pushing in amongst
them, finds itself in a very tanslo
of live creatures and you get vet
another angle of the question of bnw
many, and also some impression of
how tame they become after filling
themselves with the duck grass"
seed which abounds there, and even
In spite of the constant fusillade the
hunters keep up.
| 1t Is out of such q conglomerats
of ducks as this that the hunters
bag their 5000 a day for the mar.
kets. And 1t may well be stated here
that 5000 is considered a conserva
tive estimate. Many hunters put
the number as high as 10000 on the
"big days"
AS much as $4,000 has been paid
out in one day for ducks at Manila,
town of about 900 people At Para.
gould, 1t is not an uncommon thing for
100 barrels, each containing rs NAL
lards, to be sent out at one shipment,
and 20 and 100 barrels are to 10 ex.
pected every good day during the sea
son. All of these ducks come out Of
the sunken lands to the east of Para
gould, and an enormous number from
Big lake. In addition, p agoud is
only one, although probably the prin.
cipal. of the shipping points
One hundred and fifty barrels Of
ducks would mean more than 1900
individuals in one shipment All the
rest of the shipping points must Ger
tainly average as many as Para
gould, and on that basis many days
see more than 10000 ducks, as
conservative estimate, shipped out
of the sunken lands country Of
northwestern Arkansas and South
eastern Missouri This would mean
an average of 5000 daily for four
days in one days shipment. It is
asserted that run of as few as 20
barrels from Paragould during the
season Is extraordinary
Market hunters" among the swamp
angels dispose Of these ducks to buy
ers at various points, chiefly at Ma
nilla, for from II to 16 cents per duck,
according to their size. condition and
breed.
Buyers ship them to dealers most
of them going to Chicago. The eI
press and icing charges average
about FIVE cents per duck. The buy
er gets about 35 cents each for them
on an average. Attempt in Chicago
to buy a brace of mallards ana you
will find them priced at from 81 up
$3.50 being, perhaps, an average price,
Get them in a fashionable cafe ana
you will pay from rs cents up per poi
ton.
Arkansas has a strict game law
providing that no hunter shall snip
game out, and, indeed, probloltlhs
hunting by non-residents except Oh
their own land The kill is Imiteu
to 25 ducks per day, and 1t Is un'
lawful for anyone to have more tnan
so ducks - two days KILN LIS
possession at one time.
Here, however. comes in an eN
ception which makes Big lake tne
crying evil it is in the eyes OF game
protectionists. Four townships IN
Mississippi county, into all OF "hicu
Big lake extends, are exemr' from 'H0
non-shipment clause of the Arkansas
game laws.
Swamp angels operating around
Big lake live in the swamps' u9'
homes-the places they CAL nome.
according to hunters who rave F,si'Ue
them, are usually miserable piaoos
Mere shacks made Of logs or roue.
boards, with cracks in SIDES w.
and even the roof big enough
throw a cat through, are iocaleu :.
the ridges found here ana Ihs'0 -
the swamps. 81.
Out of the price he receives iof -
ducks the swamp angel mus p ~.
for his shells. and this feduceS .han
profits. but practically every ~
he purchases means large lat - n
To miss more than one shoC 01'
% is considered "a disgrace =.
Although malaria is rampant ann
the Big lake country, the In.
angels" are for the mos - IN
mune from it. Hunters colD.N7 bor.
from the outside soon eaten 1t, Ii n
ever. and thus the swamp 4 lions.
find an ally in the natural eon ot,r@s.
and the shooting of ducks con- s mo
merrily in spite OF al laws ana 20
tests.