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Show USES POISONED SEED TO KILL SPARROWS W. M. Ryan of Heber Makes Suggestion to State Fish and Game Commissioner Com-missioner Chambers. A scheme for ridding the state of English sparrows is suggested in a letter let-ter from YV. M. Eyan of Heber City, which has been tuined over to Fred V. Chambers, fish and game commissioner. Mr. Chambers does not look upon the scheme with favor, because of the danger dan-ger of killing other birds and domestic domes-tic fowls and animals. He also does not believe that this is quite the way to dispose of the sparrows. Mr. Ryan explains that his sehemo is to locate their feeding places and sprinkle there a handful of seed which has been soaked in some powerful poison poi-son that will cause immediate death. He says he has tried the scheme in Heber He-ber City and has practically ridded the town of the pests. Mr. iivan admits that his plan may cause the foss of some chickens, although he says that his chickens have eaten some of the poisoned poi-soned wheat without suffering harm. As for the other birds, he declares that most of them have gone south for the winter and that the feeding to kill the sparrows should be done only in winter, wrhen the song birds are away. |