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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3188, 29 November 1892, Page 2

Grasshoppers contain formio acid worth GO cents a pound. ] Tenders are invited by Mr T. H. White for the erection of a house at Hamilton West. t In a recent letter, Miss Ormerod k the well-known entomologist, writes: —" In , the much-vexed question of the sparrow, it is no matter what it eats in a town, but in t the country lam personally aware of the fearful loss caused. This is not by its raids , on the cornfield?, but by drvingnway the swallows and martins, which are amongst the first class of our insect protector'. c Should the matter be brought forward, I j have a large amount of evidence in my hands as to the absolute curse that this biid is (in its fostered condition) to British ' aericulUire, and whil-t. I would earnestly j plead for the pieservatirn of every other of our birds, I would Rive every help in my power t'j its destruction.''