THREE-LETTER PEST
, That three-letter bird, the emu, is (popular with cross-worders, but Western Australian farmers use other types of cross words when they see acres and acres of their crops beaten down and unfit for harvesting. In dry seasons since the war began, they have drifted down from the north, have stayed to breed instead of moving on when the rains came. They have cost the farmers many thousands of pounds. So the farmers have joined in Sunday blitzkriegs. They obtained special allowances of rationed shotgun cartridges and special rations of petrol. Their method is to use thres lorries, and circle the paddocks and drive the birds to a central point. The method is exciting and dangerous, because the birds are fast. The best day's bag was 170, and the total to date is 2400.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 40, 16 August 1944, Page 6
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135THREE-LETTER PEST Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 40, 16 August 1944, Page 6
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