Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1899 — That Great Crow Colony. [ARTICLE]

That Great Crow Colony.

Rev. T. H. Ball, the historian and literatuer of Crown Point, has the following in the Crown Point Star. I sphnt the 18th and 19th of Nov&mber in Milroy township, Jasper county, some ten miles southeast from Rensselaer, and there saw one of the great sights of my life. I*had seen immense numbers of black birds, and almost countless numbers of wild pigeons, as we who were boys here sixty years ago were accustomed to see them. But in the morning of November 19,1899,1 saw crows. They came up from the southwest, or nearly southwest, and were passing, quite low in the air, east of north. After watching them for a time and wondering where their roost was and what they found to eat, I began to count. I needed to count rapidly for they, flew “as the crow flies,” and very soon, in perhaps two or three minutes I counted two hundred and fifty and stopped counting. I watched that steady line of them, as they kept coming, for perhaps an hour or more, and I then went to the house. I must have seen four or five thousand crows that day. T. H. B. ; Tho dolls will have a tea party at the Bazaar.