Best Method of Poisoning Grain.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 27 October 1891, Page 3

Best Method of Poisoning Grain.

— ♦■ &- A plan for the destruction of small r birds has been used for some time with great suocess (says the Lyttelton Times) on Mr John Grigg's Longbeach Estate. The system is one which has been employed at Home with success, and has been introduced into Canterbury by Mr Frederick, now an employe on the t Longbeach Estate, 'lhe ordinary of poisoning grain is by steeping, and the strychnine permeating every corn and making it bitter the birds are apt ta reject it. In the process used at Mr Grigg's the application is dry, and the kernel of the wheat is not affected in taste, rlt has so immediate an effect that the birds are picked up in thousands on the spot where the poisoned grain has been laid, and a small quantity of poison suffices. So great has been the destruction of small birds at Longbeach that the adjoining road boards have applied to Mr Grigg for supplies of grain thus prepared, and are ceasing to purchase the heads and eggs, as they find that wholesale slaughter results from the use of the grain prepared by the new method. Mr Powell has secured a provisional protection oider pending a patent being granted for his method.