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Show SPARROWS AND TURKEYS. , That the English sparrow in America is a nuisance nui-sance is the general opinion of about everybody. The state of Utah thinks so, at least, and other states are of the same opinion, as is evidenced by the bounties offered for their heads. Besides being be-ing a nuisance, Dr. Philip Hadley pf the Rhode Island experiment station declares that the English Eng-lish sparrow is destructive of the great American thanksgiving bird. The destruction wrought by the sparrow is not by physical attack, but Dr. Hadley asserts that the disease known as "blackhead," which has been killing turkeys by thousands in Rhode Island, is distributed by the sparrows among the flocks. If Dr. Hadley's indictment of the English sparrow spar-row is proved to be well founded, it may be safely said that the war on the sparrow will be taken up in earnest and that some more efficient method of ridding the country will be evolved than hiring small boys to climb trees, destroying the nests and inculcating cruelty to animals into their hearts, all for the sake of a few pennies. No one questions the fact that the sparrow is a nuisance, but the bounty system to exterminate them is worse than that. If. we can't have turkeys and sparrows, the sparrows will have to give way to the more valu able bird, but we trust the methods of destruction will be more efficacious and less destructive of small boys' morals than has been the bounty system. |