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The Dangerous And Terrible Quail

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Day
23
Month
February
Year
1877
Copyright
Public Domain
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Eaoh pair of qnam produce au average of ten ckicks por yenr - mnny, in favorable seasons, liatch out Bisteen in a hrood, nnd Jhen hatcli a second brood. If we estímate only the small number of 500,000 ijuails in Indiana to start with (though there are probably ten times that number), and take ten per year as the produce of eaek pair, the figures will simply bn stupendous, and we present them to the Indiana Legislature for eonsideration : First yi-ur, total 3,000,000 s.Timii fekr, total W.ooo.ooo Thlrdyear, total 108,000,000 Fourth yfar, total 48.000,000 Piflhyear, total 3,8H,OOI),000 We wonld have to station an army along the Ohio river to prevent an invasión of Kcntucky after these birds had eaten everytliing visible in Indiana. There wouldn't be a bug left in that State, and the birds would require grnin ti liv( upon. Estimating a gilí of grain per day for etu.' bird, it would require about 10,000,000 busbels per day to feed them. We enter our protest in advance, and hIiüII demand, if Indiana does not pass the law, that the State shall raise the grain to feed the birds, and shall put up a t)ird-net íiOO feet high along tlie Ohio, to keep their inhal)itnts from invading Kentueky. The bill was defeated.

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Michigan Argus