Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1902 — Got 140,000 Crows Left. [ARTICLE]

Got 140,000 Crows Left.

We stated recently that the great crow roost, on Carpenteir’s creek, between here and Reming■ton, was abandoned this year, and that the orows were supposed to have gone west over into Illinois to find a new roosting region. The item was only partly correct. The crows may, some. of them, have gone oat of the oounty, bat they left a plenty behincHhem. Their □lain roosting place however is no longer the range line road, bat two or three miles east. There, in a traot of several sqnare miles, along the east end of Jordan and the northeast end of Carpenter and over the oounty line ioto White oounty, they roost every night in countless numbers. L. S. Alter, onlr ex-oounty surveyor, has observed them closely as they were gathering in for the night, and he estimates that the number roosting in that region is not less than 140,000 and may be a great many more than that number. None Such Minoe Meat like! mother used to make for 80 at John Egera.