THE SPARROW NUISANCE.
The Queenslander , in a recent issue, contains the following :—“ Sparrows are found to be more pestiverous than usual throughout the Australian Colonies, and the greatest anxiety is now manifested to to get fid of them. At the Chamber, of. Manufactures in Adelaide a sparrow trap is exhibited, which, as used by Dr Mayo’s gardener, lias taken over GOO sparrows l in five weeks! For the benefit:of our readers inclined to test its efficacy, we furnish them with the following description of it ; Galvanised netting with a quarter-inch mesh is made into a large 2ft Gin, square, and divided, into two compartments. A few live sparrows are placed in the larger compartment, on the floor of which bread crumbs or the like are strewed, and the cage is placed where: sparrows ‘-most’ do congregate.’ The wild ones enter through a run like that of a cheese rat-trap and from thence make .their way into the second or larger divison, and from there they can bei removed as often as necessary by a side door.”
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Patea Mail, 31 July 1882, Page 4
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176THE SPARROW NUISANCE. Patea Mail, 31 July 1882, Page 4
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