A NEW WAY TO SCARE CROWS.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2644, 28 January 1908, Page 7

A NEW WAY TO SCARE CROWS.

[ The following clever way of keeping crows away frcyn a cornfield is used by the Dutch farmer, and is practised to a certain extent in the eastern districts of England. The farmers make some small caps of stout paper, and smears round the inner side of the mouth of each some birdlime or other sticky stuff. In these he puts some grain*' of corn, and stands thcrn about his field by pressing their points into soft earth. When a crow finds one of these paper caps he thinks himself very fortunate, until he attempts to peck at the tempting grain, when, to his astonishment, he finds the cap attached to his head—a regular fool's cap—which will not even allow him to see what course to take if he flies up. However, he succeeds in reaching some coarse grass or bushes, and after much bewildered scrambling and flopping about gets his head out of this undesirable cap, but ever afterwards avoids the field where there are more of thein.