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Midland Co, 'juoh of the chicken country is quite 
similar, in general appearance, to the grownup parts 
of the central Wisconsin       -- sand and marsh, oaks 
and popple, few farms* The ca   areas were a surprize, 
however, Altough we did'nt give the place a fair trial 
-- it was raining all the time we were there -- it loo&s 
like the old failiar story of a chicken rare reclaimed 
by bruh (equals too acuh fire protection) wth very few 
birds left, Eldred agrees with this diagosis, 
e stopped at ilay City to see Creec4 'ut he oould'nt 
tell us much about ghickens, fie sent us on to Standish, 
where we looked up your man Corneal (selling?), C 
sent us A place near Omr, where he said there was a sial 
remnnt flocks two miles east of Oiner to what was called 
.. Silver Gables 80 rods south, east again about a mile to 
a pine thicket., South and west of this thickeS is an odd 
formation -- looked like a shrub bog (low 
perhaps?) but on sandy soil; also a marsh east, the bed 
of Duck Lake, It was still raining, so we went on, 
On the way to Standish, the country aroimd Pinconning 
looked very likely, but Corneal said that he knew of no 
chickens to apeak of there; HeIld seen one or two, Do 
you know anything about this country? 
Froz   er we went to Prescott, I suspect that there 
Efn      a, the other  Pre scott hi~melf estLates that 
there are about 200 birds on the twP places and, if one 
*fen'arges the area somewhat to include neighboring lands, 
I suspect tt he's about right. 7e saw two flocks of 
 
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