ROOKS AND OYSTERCATCHERS
Sir.—l hope t£e Department of Agriculture will not be influenced by the letter from L. D. Austen, but will give the rooks another dose of poison as soon as it is likely to get another good kill A. G. Street, the well-known British writer on agricultural matters, writing recently in the British “Farmer.” called rooks black devils and said that in some counties of England it was impossible to grow winter barley on account of them. He blamed so-called bird-lovers for not having them controlled. I would like to inform Mr Robertson that skylarks are just as scarce in Marlborough as in Canterbury and there are no magpies in the former province. Ferrets, hedgehogs and opossums come to my homestead though there is no cover within a mile. —Yours, etc., STONE THE CROWS. Culverden, January 17, 1957.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28179, 18 January 1957, Page 9
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