NATURE'S RAT CATCHERS
The American Nature Association affairins that a pair of nesting hawks will destroy more than 1.000 mice and rats during the. nesting season alone, and. a nesting season lasts only about three months, says a contributor to Forest and Bird. .Ah Alabama "hawk exterminator" claimed to have killed J7O hawks. That would be 500 rats and mice each for these 170 hawks, which would have killed and eaten 235,000 rats and mice during the three months' nesting period. A. rat will eat at least half a pound of grain per week. In twelve weeks 1,1.10,000 pounds of grain would be eaten out of the pockets of farmers.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/BPB19430312.2.6
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 55, 12 March 1943, Page 2
Word count
Tapeke kupu
110NATURE'S RAT CATCHERS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 55, 12 March 1943, Page 2
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Beacon Printing and Publishing Company is the copyright owner for the Bay of Plenty Beacon. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Beacon Printing and Publishing Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in