Kinston, March 17—Not less than three of Jack Miner’s gospel-carrying ducks have been shot in this state in the past two hunting seasons, and possibly more. Two were brought down in this section, one in the northeastern part of the state. But the great majority of Miner’s feathered evangelists have winged their way back to his private game preserve in Ontario, where they spend the summers.
Miner is a resident of Kingsville, Ontario. Some years ago he set apart a considerable area of land as a retreat for wildfowl. The birds breed and rear their young there. When food is scarce, Minor provides grain for them. They have come to know him as a friend. He has tagged thousands of ducks. less than 50 have been shot so far as he has positive knowledge.
The Canadian bands the ducks’ legs with inscriptions bearing his name and address and brief scriptural quotations.
Approximately 45 of the inscriptions have been returned to him by hunters who regretted that they had shot those particular birds. They were killed in spots all the way from Jones county, N.C., to the northernmost outpost of civilization, but the most of Miner’s pets are believed to winter in the eastern Carolina sounds. Only one or two per cent of the tagged birds are shot in a season, it is understood, though their contact with persons at Miner’s place may have made then less wary than the general run of wildfowl.
From page 5 of the Concord Daily Tribune, Tuesday, March 18, 1924.
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