DESTRUCTION OF SMALL BIRDS.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 3782, 2 December 1898, Page 4

DESTRUCTION OF SMALL BIRDS.

Success of phosporised grain,

The 'North Otago Times' reports that after a deal of experimenting a farmer in the. Oamuru district hit on a method of destroying the email feathered pests in his neighbourhood in a wholesale manner. For a time he fed thousands of birds on unpoisoned oats. He then mixed a quantity of oats with phosphorous, and added a large quantity of phosphorised oats and chaff to the measure allocated to tempt the birds. The result was far beyond his expectations. Whereas the paddocks and trees were alive with birds previously, there are now, he says, not half-a-dozen birds in the neighbourhood. Beneath the trees they lie in thousands, and they can be seen dead all over the paddocks. The destruction was almost complete, and he says it is the most successful poisoning he has heard of. He ascribes it solely to the phosphoriced oats, which the birds took freely. This seems probable, as he had previously used in a similar mannor the ordinary poisoned wheat with hardly any effect.

Let the croaker croak, and the hard time howler howl. Wo know hard times as bad as- those in a sick household. The start — a slight cough, gets worse, .keeps everybody iv the house awake, father swears, mother ditto. Avoid these troubles. Keep a bottle of Woods' Great Peppermint Cure in the house; it never fails, a half-crown bottle will cure the whole family.

' What sort of a dop: was it ?' asked the lawyer of a witness in an impounding case heard at Wyi.dhaui S.M. Court on Tuesday. 'It was a blue deg,' was the answer. Later on, another witness, flio son of the? owner of the dog, decs&reu it wish ' red and white dog— but there was more yellow and black about it.' Needless to say, says the ' F»irru«T,' th« Court was high'y amusod ovor the descriptions, and Cwumnl rviuarked that the dog seemed t«> hive as many colours as a jo-key's uniform.

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