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Show Buzzards No Longer Needed. The buzzards that have long in- fested Vera Cruz and served a useful purpose as winged scavengers are doomed. A London firm is putting in amodern sewer and water system. The birds have become so numerous that they are a pest. The protection of the municipality has been removed, and when the new drainage system shall be completed the city will be rid of the pest, the numbers of which have already al-ready been reduced somewhat by catching the buzzards and placing - j them in wooden cages to be taken to I sea and drowned. I |