| Show HAWKS AND CROWS crows crowe and hawks can hardly be considered 1 I game birds and may not be re carded as susceptible of protection protect loo under the present fish bob and game law or any future amendment ame adment thereto wo we move therefore that a special law be enacted imposing pains and penalties upon any man who shall hall kill thes them birds or destroy their nests the NEWS b hs ba a already made allu allusion to the ibe matter and has cited and expert evidence to show coshow that so far as the hawk is in concerned be to Is a valuable ally of the farmer because of his bi ceaseless warfare upon mice and aad gophers while his appetite for young chicken Is only occasionally gratified even this latter tenC tendency ency can bore be retrained restrained by a rattle in the hands of a child the watchfulness of the house bouse dor doir or the shoo of atie farmer 94 wife or daughter so that ben the feath feathered bred fight eile efforts to keep his bis stomach ull tull are ar wholly directed in a channel hat bat is highly beneficial bene noial to the agriculturist it is in now dow shown that the crow although as ai a bird he has ban different at tastes from the hawk Is in no loan jess a r lend to the farmer rather than an enemy this to i the conclusion or of a special investigation of a division ot or the department of agriculture jim in which nearly a thousand stomachs of the he bird were examined it appeared that corn formed only 26 25 or er cent of the food of adult crows and wat that most moat of this wile was waste wange grain of a no 0 00 oom mercial value in the he case of cultivated the low lies from froin crows to is trivial oo on the other hand injurious insects such as 04 grasshoppers may alay beetles be etlen and cut koima form over 26 percent per cent of the entire food of crows after the may beetle season has passed grasshoppers constitute the greater part of the insect food of crown crow to the eon end of the fall crowe also destroy mice rab rabbits hits and other injurious ro dente lo in view of those these findings it is adir proper to DO true sports porte men will want to shoot a hawk and no pot hunter or amateur gunner ought to be allowed to codou boso doso with rut at danger of 01 heavy floe due as to the black fellows fel lowa the prudent rumont farmer ought to feel like tak tog r ing down every scarecrow in his fields |
