Small Bird Nuisance.
A writer: in a Canterbury journal says :— We were much troubled here with the small birds three years ago. I mixed the grain I was sowing witb coal tar, about a pint of tar to eight bushels of grain; first emptied ihe grain out on to a floor and mixed it properly. I found that no fowl or bird would touch it, and it came up fine, and even the larks dii not interfere with it after it germinated. I made it known to our farmers here, and they have this year pretty generally adopted it ia wheat-sowing. One of them came to. me lately, and said :"I mixed thirty bags of seed with tar, and not one bird touched it, and it went through the* drill without any trouble. It is equally saitable for any kind of grain, and if; it does stick m the drill a little sand relieves the difficulty.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 209, 9 August 1883, Page 2
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156Small Bird Nuisance. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 209, 9 August 1883, Page 2
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