PHEASANT PEST
DESTRUCTION OF CROPS IN THE NORTH. (BY TELEGBAPH— SPEWAt. TO THE FOSTi) ' AUCKLAND, This Day. Pheasants in some of ,the plantations have proved a veritable pest at the corn planting season (writes the Mangonui correspondent of tlie Auckland Herald). The first shoots had just appeared above the ground when the hordes descended and promptly uprooted the young plants, devouring the softened seed. Considerable areas \ were replanted with the same result. Poisoned .wheat and whiskysoaked maize were used as exterminators. The birds that partook of the latter went fairly drunk, and quite solemnly pranced around. > although retaining sufficient "balance wherewith to dodge their man captors. The same pests are at present making -themselves obnoxious in the potato crops. They scratch out a few tubers leave the marks of their beaks, and pass on to another row. The' amount of damage that these birds can do in a single night is almost incredible.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 26, 31 January 1913, Page 3
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153PHEASANT PEST Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 26, 31 January 1913, Page 3
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