THE SPARROW NUISANCE.
A writer in a Canterbury journal says : We were much troubled here with the small birds three years ago. I mixed the grain I was sowing with coal .tar, about a pint of tar to eight bushels of grain ; first emptied the grain out on a floor, and mixed it properly. I found that nobird or fowl ; would, touph it, aucl : it came ;up> fine, and even the larks did not interfere with it : after it germinated.' : I mad© at known to our farmers here, and they have this year pretty generally adopted it in wheat sowing. One of them came to roe lately and said “ I mixed thirty bags of ibed with the 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 ih” ' ' .V ...." ’ .
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Patea Mail, 25 September 1882, Page 3
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158THE SPARROW NUISANCE. Patea Mail, 25 September 1882, Page 3
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