NEW METHOD OF KILLING HAWKS.
A fanner who lives in Northern Louisiana has grown weary of peppering gray hawks with blue whistler buckshot. It takes too much time. He sat down and thought long, and! finally evolved a method that does credit to his ingenuity. Everyone knows that hawks perch only on dead trees. This Louisiana farmer made a strong pole, some 50 feet in length, by naiiling some scantlings together. To one end of the pole he tied a scythe Made with its razor edge turned down. He set the pole up about 500 yards from his barnyard. An hour had hardly passed when a hawk alighted on the scythe and grasped it with his talons, but released it with a suddenness that gave ample proof of an injury sustained. The bird glanced down and! attacked' the scythe viciously. It was cut again, and again, bnt never relented, maddened probably by its own Mood, as most hawks are. After a short struggle, the bird fell to the ground with its head split open. This farmer has killed many hawks in the same manner.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1611, 14 January 1903, Page 37 (Supplement)
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184NEW METHOD OF KILLING HAWKS. New Zealand Mail, Issue 1611, 14 January 1903, Page 37 (Supplement)
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