Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 54
arranged merely forfive-hundred-mile limits. There are races forone-hundred, two-hundred, and one-thousand-mile limits, and in the various contests differentbirds have succeeded in capturing first prizes.In the hundred-mile race held in 1897, thehoming-pigeon Sandy, owned by Dr. N. H.Haviland, flew… … RECORD: 50O MILES IN ONE DAY. pion bird for two hundred miles, flew 614 milesin a single day. Petroleum, the long-distance champion homing-pigeon, flew fromMississippi City to Newark, a distance of 1093 6l2 THE NEW POPULARITY OF THE CARRIER-PIGEON. miles, in twenty-seven days, during which timeshe…
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