Word: fowle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charles Conklin, a farmer of Sussex, N. J., has a bantam rooster with four wings. The extra flippers are attached to the rooster's legs. When the fowl runs he kicks up as much dust as a rotary plow and when he hops into the air he looks like a biplane...
...naturalists may have heard that he is an ardent fisherman and a lover of wild life, but few are aware of the extent to which he has carried this passion, of the work and patience the weak-eyed old gentleman (he is 70) has expended to tame wild fowl to the point where he could learn facts about them which naturalists have been able only to surmise. In the September-October issue of Natural History, published this week, Lord Grey reveals many facts unknown to U. S. sportsmen & naturalists concerning the love-life of a distinguished native of North America...
...obtain publicity for his four Chicago hotels, now in receivership, Ernest ("Ernie") Byfield imported 20 dozen penguin eggs from Capetown, S. A. Promptly they were impounded by the Customs Office. Federal law forbids importation of wild fowl eggs. Wrote Hotelman Byfield, seldom serious, to the Customs House...
Massachusetts, apologies. Herewith, a true likeness of Congressman McCormack. sponsor of the penny-a-shell tax bill to save wild fowl...
Problem. The wild fowl shortage is the accumulated effect of several bad breeding years. The U. S. Bureau of Biological Survey has been singularly vague about the actual effect, in numbers of birds and among different species, but by last week it felt able to say that the birds hardest hit were canvasbacks, redheads and lesser scaups. Pintails, mallards, black ducks and geese were little below normal. Low water concentrated what birds there were in the good feeding grounds, causing many shooters to doubt that a shortage existed. Bureau agents found such concentrations in Florida's "panhandle" district...