Desk Book 
 
(Recreation Magazine, 1906) 
Digest of 
"The Vanishing Prairie Hen" 
By Clate 
p.1   5,00§,af0 Prairie Chickens estimated killed in Nebraska "a
few 
years hence" of which 4,000,000 for market. 
p.2   "The true pinnated grouse is never found, except where man has

broken the sod, sown the wheat, and dotted the prairies with 
groves of trees." 
P.3   600 chickens killed in 10 days in 172 in McLean Co., Ill. by 
Capt. A. H. Bogardus and Miles Johnson. 50 birds per gun per day 
considered "good hunting." 
'inter Ran2e: "large flocks - - - during winter - - - in the 
immense cornfields of S. W. Iowa, though a fair days sport on 
them during the open season is unknown." 
p.4   Packs: "In localities where the birds are really scarce the 
number which will rather into what westerners call a' "pack" is

really remarkable, every grouse in the country seemingly having 
his fellows." (These packs can be made to be by repeated 
flushing). 
P.5   "It is a bird that increases with the first stares of civilization,

pauses with the second, and disappears with the third."