. The American sportsman: containing hints to sportsmen, notes on shooting, and the habits of the game birds and wild fowl of America . low prices in our markets. The early portion of the season of 1854 and 1855 was equallyprolific of the feathered race, insomuch that greater slaughter ofwild fowl was made on the flats of the Chesapeake and its numeroustributaries than in any previous year. No less than three thou-sand head of various kinds of ducks were killed in the vicinity of Havre de Grace alone on the first day which the duckers in a body 20 306 lewiss AMERICAN SPORTSMAN. agreed to make
. The American sportsman: containing hints to sportsmen, notes on shooting, and the habits of the game birds and wild fowl of America . low prices in our markets. The early portion of the season of 1854 and 1855 was equallyprolific of the feathered race, insomuch that greater slaughter ofwild fowl was made on the flats of the Chesapeake and its numeroustributaries than in any previous year. No less than three thou-sand head of various kinds of ducks were killed in the vicinity of Havre de Grace alone on the first day which the duckers in a body 20 306 lewiss AMERICAN SPORTSMAN. agreed to make use of their batteries. The temperature duringthe months of October and November of the following season of1855 and 1856 being uncommonly moderate, but few canvas-backs,comparatively speaking, made their appearance on the Chesapeakebefore December. The weather soon after becoming intensely cold,and continuing so for several weeks, the destruction of ducks onthose far-famed feeding-grounds was necessarily quite limited incomparison with the preceding years, and all descriptions of wildfowl sold in our markets at very high
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