. The American farmer. A complete agricultural library, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments and details. Blue-jat (C eristata). the sake of a moments pleasure. In short, man has soon taught the creatures, whoscarcely feared him at first, that he is a monster to be dreaded, who will give themno rest nor peace. Thiis it happens that, as the centuries roll on, one species after anothergrows more and more scarce, or becomes altogether extinct; and in their loss the worid losesmore than at the death of the last representative of a long line of imperial pri
. The American farmer. A complete agricultural library, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments and details. Blue-jat (C eristata). the sake of a moments pleasure. In short, man has soon taught the creatures, whoscarcely feared him at first, that he is a monster to be dreaded, who will give themno rest nor peace. Thiis it happens that, as the centuries roll on, one species after anothergrows more and more scarce, or becomes altogether extinct; and in their loss the worid losesmore than at the death of the last representative of a long line of imperial princes. AGRICTJLTUBAL USES OF BIRDS. 947. Meadow Lark {SiumeUa magna). Let us notice from history a few instances of the gradual decrease of some of our birds,that any who are doubting may be convinced. Hear what Audubon says: When I firstremoved to Kentucky, the pinnated grouse were so plenty that they were held in no higherestimation as food than the most common ~~ flesh; and no hunter of Kentucky deigned ^p- ~~^ to shoot them. In those days, during the __ ^J: ^^^^^ winter, the grouse would enter the farm ^yard, and feed with the poiiltry, alight onthe houses, or walk in the very streets ofthe villages. I recollect having caughtsome in a stable at Henderson where theyhad followed some wild turkeys. In thecourse of the same winter, a friend of mme,who was fond of practicing rifle-shootmg,killed upward of forty in one morning,but picked up none of them, so satisfiedwith grouse was he as well as every member of his family. My own servants pieferred the fattest flitch of bacon to theirflesh, and not unfrequently laid them aside
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