BIRD KILLING.
Farmers in North Canterbury stato that the -small birds nuisance is worse than usual (says our special Christchurch correspondent), and little seems to have been dono so far to copo with it. At tho Kaiapoi Farmers' Union meeting, Mr. Grigg's method of poisoning 121b. of ' wheat by first soaking it in new milk and then dusting over it two ounces of finely powdered strychnine, and spreading the mixture before daylight, was recommended to thoso who havo grain crops. A "Woodend farmer said that quite recently ho had poisoned twenty-seven dozen small birds, for which tho road board paid 9d. per dozen.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 331, 19 October 1908, Page 5
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103BIRD KILLING. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 331, 19 October 1908, Page 5
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