A Missouri Pigeon Roost

Pigeons have como into this part of the country by millions. Of evenings the sky is darkened with them. They have made Dodson's farm their headquarters, and at nights the trees and underbrush are loaded down with multitudes. A líttle before sundown Jarge armies of pigeons are seen coming from different points of the compass, but each army passes onwarrï, as if tkey intended to change their place. Af ter a while they return and settle on the trees around the roost, not many of them nearer than a mile of the place. They make sudden flights from these trees, and the sound of their wings is like that of a great storm. There is a constant roaring in the air as myriadsof the birds fly to and fro. About dark they fly toward the roost, and for a long time fly round and round, and have the appearance of bees swarming, although the vast number and the tornado-liie roaring they make surpasses anything in I the power of man to describe. Af ter a while they alight on the trees and bushes, and the limbs are bent downward, often are broken off. The pigeons keep up a constant chattering, which can be heard for miles away. Tbey are never still during the night. So far as sleep is concerned, such a thing is out of the question with a pigeon. Tbey are disturbed by themselves - such throngs assembling in a spot that none can be still for a moraeiit, and the incessant discharging of firearms ataong them causes them to chongo their location almost constantly. This roost is visited every night by erowds of men, some with guns and ethers with poles, which they use in thrashing down the pigeons which happen to be at the point struck. Hundreds are killed every night, but when light appears the vast armies again go forth with apparently as nraeh vigor as ever. Pigeons have been killed in New York with undigested rice in their crops, which they had evidently gathered in the rice-flelds in the Carolinas. From these and other circumstances, it has bsen estimated that a pigeon fliest it 'che rate of a mile a minute. Imagine, toen, millions upon millions ■of these birds all on the wing at the same time over a scope of country not more than two miles square, and a faint idea of the noise they make may be obtained. But no one can ever fully imagine what a pigeon roost is, or how much noiso they make, until one is seen and heard. There is an abundance of mast here now, and wo suppose that the pigeons will remain here until it is all gone. One curious circumstance is that in the neighborhood of this pigeon roost we never see a pigeon from the time they leave of mornings until they return of evcnings. They are uot eating the mast here at all, bnt somewhere they are all feastiug luxuriantly, for they are all fat. - &'ouihand {Mo. ) Rustic. The Fish Commissioners of Vsrmont are stocking the Winooski river with Potomac bass, and expect to raise enough young in tive years to Rfoek Lake Ohamplain.