Show jeep posse gun club will poison magpies the vernal jeep posse will carry out its first official lob job IS sunday morning when they will wll work in conjunction with the vernal hod rod and gun club and the local gome game wardens in planting poisoned meat for mag pies the special bait which Is being furnished by the utah state fish F ish and game commission will be spread throughout ashley valley in an effort to kill a majority of the egg eating magpies the project Is especially important to pheasant hunters in this area inasmuch as there will be no more pheasant planting in the state by the game commission magpie destroy thousands of pheasants every year in the uintah basin area if the magpies are destroyed pheasant hunting may be able to continue without the special plantings eve every year that have proved so gy costly Y magpies not only eat pheasant eggs but the eggs of quail mourning mourn lne doves songbirds song birds ana and even chickens thickens an unusual number berof of magpies have been seen in the area this year according ac cordin to president alvin kay vernal vernal I 1 rod and gun club |