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Show Qucsti:n cf 11; to Ex-. Ex-. tcrnlzatc the "Bird IM-. ' sauce Is a TrcuMcscnc ; One for Officers: , : With; the -coming of thennatlnj: season ' tot the iblrda, a new and extra duty 1 i placed upon the Sheriff and members of his office. There Is aState law pro-' viding for the destruction of wild animals ani-mals and birds. It Is the latter provision provi-sion "w hich concerns tha Sheriff's office. .The statute provides that 5 cents a dozen be paid for English sparrow . eggs, and the Board of County Commissioners, Com-missioners, which -la authorized to frame an ordinance for the payment of bounties or rewards for the eggs, has placed this duty n-thetshoulders of the SXerltt. , . ; " . , -.Iloys Are Industrious. IFor the past two week&Hhe eggs have . bejen brought In by the small boy in large numbers. It is not an unusual thing for a. single boy to bring in from ten to twenty dozen of the little speckled speck-led eggs at a time. They are given a . certificate by the Sherlft, stating the number of eggs, which is taken to the County Auditor, and he Issues a war- rant ort the Treasurer for the amount allowed. The certificate given by the Sheriff reads as follows: "Salt Lake City, April 27, 1903. To the County Auditor: Au-ditor: . I hereby certify that Willie Jones has this day delivered to Salt " Lake county twenty dozen English spar row eggs, for which he Is entitled to compensation as allowed by law. C. Frank Emery. Sheriff. Per William Edwards, Ed-wards, Deputy." The next thing for the Sheriff to do Is to destroy the eggs, for if they are not destroyed they are likely to be brought into the office again by Some youngster, whose enterprise exceeds his honesty. Sheriff Can Hake Omelette. It is sometimes a problem with the ( Sheriffs -what to do with the eggs, but the best and safest way to dispose of them is to make a sparrow egg. omelette. om-elette. If not considered palatable by the officers the omelette might be fed to the prisoners. Chicken eggs are expensive,, ex-pensive,, and this" would mean a big saving to the county. The importation of the English sparrow spar-row into Utah in the early days was one of the gravest mistakes ever made : in the history of .this great State. The birds do not serve a single good purpose. pur-pose. They drive out the better class of birds and are a nuisance in immeasurable immeas-urable ways the whole . year through. The problem of their extermination has often been considered,, and the question lwally arises is the method that is blng" "employed, the proper course to tike to exterminate the undesirable lit- 1 tie blrds." ; Bounties f oi Dead Birds. At one time' there was a bounty of 3 .- cents; paid .for each bird killed., but the - authorities considered the use of air guns and flippers' in the populated dts-trlcts dts-trlcts to be a menace to life, and the ordinance providing for the paying of the bounty was abolished. It has never been deemed dangerous ; for boys of Immature years to riak their ; bones and their lives in climbing the high trees for the eggs. The young-; young-; sters. it must be admitted, are expert In , the business, but aside from the risks they run. the killing of one grown bird does more to exterminate the nuisance nui-sance than the destruction of a hundred eggs. Sparrows Increase Bapidly. A sparrow lays from four to seven eggs at a time, and hatches out several families each season, and the propa-gation propa-gation of the species, accordingly. Increases In-creases at an astonishing ratio. This killing of the birds would not only be a more effective way of ridding the State of the troublesome birds, but would also prove more economical. It is an ordinary dally occurrence at this time of the year for persons to stop on the street and watch a boy climb : some large tree in search of the speck-. led eggs. The whole affair, aside from the element of danger that Is connected ' with it. Is an interesting sight. There generally are two or more boys. The climber has to be ' boosted" until he can catch hold of the limbs, and after he : has, at dire risk, reached a nest, the , eggs are dropped to the other lad, who catches them in his hat. Where one engages In the business alone he is impelled to carry the eggs down in his m?Hth. '. The boys extract the eggs from the nests that are not always clean, and . JSace them, without the least compunc- , lion; in their mouths. But, like others - who follow dangerous occupations and do .unpleasant things, they are after the almighty dollar. i |