DEPREDATIONS OF SPARROWS.
The sparrow nuisance is developing into quite a curse to farmers in the Masterton district. These übiquitous little feathered creatures, which chirp and flit about the towns and country with reckless impunity, are claimed to be the natural enemy of caterpillars and various other insects. But it so happens l that the caterpillar is just now out of reason, and cereal-growing operations are in progress. His sparrowship has a strong partiality for oats and wheat. Tbe attention devoted by sparrows to cereal crops around Masterton haa been so persistent that some farmers have found it necessary to re-sow the whole of their land. A crusade is, we understand, to be prosecuted against the destructive bird. In some parts of New Zealand poisoned grain is supplied to settlers free of charge by the local authority, and there is some talk of asking the Masterton Borough Council 10 follow the example thus set.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10060, 6 August 1910, Page 4
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154DEPREDATIONS OF SPARROWS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10060, 6 August 1910, Page 4
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