WORK OF THE SEA BIRDS

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 11, 13 July 1931, Page 8

WORK OF THE SEA BIRDS

(To the Editor.) : . Sir,—As one who ardently seconded the late Mr. Firth's efforts to inako-the colloco' cricket ground what it wasi I would emphatically state that the presence of gulls in considerable numbers, on the ground was likely .to be, unless continued for a long time, beneficial. 'Knowing that tlir£ requires' compression and a. certain amount of tearing about,' our methods were rather in lino with the work of 'the sea birds, in that besides rolling the turf was at times torn about by harrows a,nd sharp rakes to prevent its matting, and the public Svcre permitted on the ground during (he sports,.,etc." Onr methods could not have been altogether wrong, as. aided by a. climate movc v suit? Ed than England to grow English' grosses, a knowledge of fertilisers and, soil conditions, a turf was produced in a ■ few years second to that of no cricket ground in the world. 'Yet the gulls' came there iiv stormy times but we knew they do-, stroyed countless insect pests and that thedamage done was more apparent than real.-—I am, etc., •' . • . , . . '■ ■ - JS. V.- 'SANDERSON";