The Small Bird Nuisance.
♦ A writer in a Canterbury Journa 1 says : —We were much troubled here with the small bir^.j th; cc years ago I mixed the grain I was sowing with coal tar, about a pint of tar io eight bushels of grain : first emptied the out on a floor and mixed it properly, I fouad that i.o bird or fowl woulj touch it, aud it came uj fin<», and even the larks did not interfere with it after it germinated. I made it known to our farmers here, and they have this ypar pretty generally adopted it in wheat sowing (ne oi them came to me lately and said : — " I mixed thirty ba n -s ot ssed with tar and not one bird has touched it, and it went through the drill without any trouble. It is equally suitable for any other kind of grain, and if it does stick in the drill a little sand relieves it."
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Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 110, 31 May 1883, Page 3
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161The Small Bird Nuisance. Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 110, 31 May 1883, Page 3
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