. The shadow of a gun . ently called for. Many of the birdswere found to be of poor quality and lightweightswere common among Spring ducks, which, com-ing out of the coolers hard frozen, they deceivedthe best buyers, until Spring birds were almost un-noticed and fell from to one-half to one-third oftheir former values. Then it followed that stan-dard weights of three pounds for canvasback and twopounds and a half for redheads for the Fall catchwere insisted upon. If this recession in prices hadnot occurred when it did canvasback and redhead 302 CANVASBACK AND REDHEAD. would soon have been a th
. The shadow of a gun . ently called for. Many of the birdswere found to be of poor quality and lightweightswere common among Spring ducks, which, com-ing out of the coolers hard frozen, they deceivedthe best buyers, until Spring birds were almost un-noticed and fell from to one-half to one-third oftheir former values. Then it followed that stan-dard weights of three pounds for canvasback and twopounds and a half for redheads for the Fall catchwere insisted upon. If this recession in prices hadnot occurred when it did canvasback and redhead 302 CANVASBACK AND REDHEAD. would soon have been a thing of the past. Allkinds of ways for securing these birds were prac-ticed and allowed. Sink boats, sneak boats andswivel guns were brought into play and destroyedlarge numbers, whereas if been protectedand allowed only to be killed as now in the fringesof deep water where flags make a cover, they doubt-less might have remained fairly plenty for manyyears to come. Not very many are now killed in the spring time. Red-Head. in Illinois. Those that are brought into the marketcome mostly in the fall from Wisconsin and Min-nesota, and the hunters there have been very reticentof disclosing their knowledge of the exact placeswhere they were killed, but now that the laws haveforbidden shipping out of the State the knowledgeis not so important, and the man that goes for sportcan certainly now secure them fairly easy and inreasonable numbers. Redhead seem to be plentyyet in some places, but not enough come in of stan-dard weights to materially influence the hold their place well up to old figures and it CANVASBACK AND REDHEAD. 303 is no secret that except where wild celery grows,which gives the canvas a very excellent flavor, thequality of fat redheads fully equals that of canvas-back, and except among the smaller sizes are worthequally as much. Doubtless the appearance of thecanvasback has tended to give it a fanciful this respect it is widely different from
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