MILLIONS OF CROWS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1372, 23 February 1881, Page 2

MILLIONS OF CROWS.

The latest "jam" from America is the following, which we take from the Lexington S.D. Press, It is a little " taller" than usual, but coming from such an excellent authority as the above it must, of course, be quite true :—" A gentleman who resides near the elegant premises of Mr Inksheep, about six miles north of our city, reports what is probably the most stupendous thin" in the way of a crow-roost that has ever been seen since Noah's crow went to /A roost in the olive tree. The roost is m < the magnificent woodland of Mr Inksheep, and our informant estimates the number of birds at 150,000,000. He says the largest oak trees have been uprooted and smaller ones crushed into kindling wood by their weight; that ' Ihe noise made by them is so great that people for three miles around have to stuff cotton in their eara and are only enabled to communicate with each other through Bpeaking-trumpets after the crows" begin to assemble. Cattle weighing 1500 pounds have been killed

by the birds and their bones picked clean, and the skeletons of hogs and sheep, which weighed 150 to 200 pounds, are dangling from the trees, where the crows have carried theiri, and the whole country, is strewn with bories, as in the prophet's vision of ' the Valley of Jehosaphat.' Shooting at them i 3 exceedingly dangerous. A gentleman in 'the 'eniploy of Mr Inksheep fired two sndts into one of the trees and narrowly escaped suffocation from the falling birds."