ANOTHER FEATHERED PEST. TO THE EDITOR.
Sir, —The most dcstructi\ <■ of f i uit eating English birds has arjived in the Waikato. Tint is the blackbird. As yet in small numbers. For about two months at this season of the ycnr the males sing, ami for the remainder of the year are silent During the season of song the males may be destioyed. It hcho\cs every one who lias any interest in fiuit growing in the Waikato to check the first advances of the destmctne army that will soon overwhelm us if neglected. Thesrveie vinteis that occasionally occur in England destioy large numbeis of these bird*. Fiom my own obscnation of the eirccts of the winteis of 187S ami 1879, I believe four fifths of them pciisheri. We lm\e no such means of relipf here. If energetic steps aie not taken to check this pest we. may bid faiowell to all hope of raising many of the most valuable derelictions of fruit The thrush not being so hardy as the blackbird ia not found in such large numbers in England, but in pioportion to its numbers it is neaily as destructive. —lam, Ac. Jos. J. B\ru(;h, Wartle, September 22nd, JSS-t'
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Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1906, 23 September 1884, Page 3
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200ANOTHER FEATHERED PEST. TO THE EDITOR. Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1906, 23 September 1884, Page 3
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