. The passenger pigeon in Pennsylvania, its remarkable history, habits and extinction, with interesting side lights on the folk and forest lore of the Alleghenian region of the old Keystone state. s apart for fifteenmiles. Each net captured from ten to one hundreddozen a day. I have shipped from twenty to thirtybarrels a day, each barrel holding twenty-five dozenand selling from twenty-five to fifty cents a dozen,but discontinued when the market became glutted. In the Spring of 1842 Stephen Sickles, of Smeth-port, caught thousands of them, but as there was nomarket at that time, hired himself
. The passenger pigeon in Pennsylvania, its remarkable history, habits and extinction, with interesting side lights on the folk and forest lore of the Alleghenian region of the old Keystone state. s apart for fifteenmiles. Each net captured from ten to one hundreddozen a day. I have shipped from twenty to thirtybarrels a day, each barrel holding twenty-five dozenand selling from twenty-five to fifty cents a dozen,but discontinued when the market became glutted. In the Spring of 1842 Stephen Sickles, of Smeth-port, caught thousands of them, but as there was nomarket at that time, hired himself and his net to hisneighbors for $2 a day, and captured in a snigle dayfrom 500 to 2,000 pigeons. In this immediate vicinity, C. M. Slack tells ofnetting them with E. S. Carpenter on the flats wherethe refinery is now located. At one time there was alarge nesting up at Windfall. A. N. AIcFall described a nesting made at ^ and they picked them. He says that after asuccessful day with the nets, a trough would be builtaround the four sides of a good room and into thisthe dead pigeons would be dumped. Women wouldbe hired to pick them, taking the feathers for us€ inmaking feather SETH NELSON, JR. THE PASSENGER PIGEON IN PENNSYLVANIA 195 From lengthy descriptions given by T. L. Sart-vvell, C. M. Slack and A. N. McFall, the following isobtained as to the process of netting them. The nets varied in size from twelve to twenty feetin length and were from three to six feet or more inwidth. One side of the net would be staked along itsentire length to the ground and thru the other sidewhich was free, was run what was called the net string,wdiich was fastened on each end to tlie spring polesby which the net was sprung. The spring poles wereof hemlock and fastened to the net springs, doubledback to give force by which the net was spread andwere a number of feet from the net. The net would betucked carefully on the ground along the staked sideand so arranged that when it was r
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