ROOKS AND CROWS
THE BANE AND THE ANTIDOTE. HAWKE’S BAY WALNIIT-GROWERS' LOSSES. A. discussion on the rook pest in Hawke’s Bay took place at the Fruitgrowers’ Conference yesterday morning. The rooks, it was stated, did a great 01 al of damage to walnuts, which they mo able to open with great ease. One man said that, he lost anything from on© to four tons of walnuts during the reason from this cause. An Auckland delegate suggested that ono of tho Vest remedies for the rook ■posh was to import crows into the district. The crows would mate with the rooks, thus producing .a hybrid progenny. which, like the mule "would have r.o pride of ancestry and no hope of .posterity." Rooks were a great pest in the Auckland district some years ago, he remarked, but on crows being imported they went out of existence.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11855, 14 June 1924, Page 12
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