The Useful Skylark
Although the skylark is anathema to many farmers,” says a contributor to "Forest and Bird,” yet it is really a useful bird. It shows a fondness for sprouting seed, especially of the turnip variety, but Old Country farmers believe this thinning-out of seedlings to have a decidedly beneficial effect on the crop. A case is quoted where, in the North Island, wholesale poisoning of skylarks was followed by a disastrous plague of ea terpillars.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 53, Issue 32408, 17 March 1944, Page 3
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77The Useful Skylark Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 53, Issue 32408, 17 March 1944, Page 3
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