DESTRUCTION OF PESTS.
Supposing the sparrow was destroyed as rapidly and as surejy as the owls' most ardent advocates said he would be, then, with most of the native birds extremely scarce and the imported birds eaten, what about the caterpillars? This question might be kept steadily in view to some purpose. Caterpillars in a birdless land would probably mean, sooner >or later, land without farmers, says the "Ashburton Mail"; sooner, at anyrate, than in a land with birds, and relatively few caterpillars.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9682, 5 January 1910, Page 4
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83DESTRUCTION OF PESTS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9682, 5 January 1910, Page 4
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