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Show nMajaaBsaaasiBsrsrsissssasrsrsairsrsrsisMatMsiM Nux Vomica Kill. I I.. C. Hill of Wardton, who was In town to-day, tells us of a novel means of destroying chit ken hawks which Is being employed there In the feod prepared for forty or fifty chickens Ir mixed one-half a teaipoonful of tlnp-ture tlnp-ture of nux vomica. This poison does not affect the chickens, so It Is asserted, as-serted, hut In turn does kill tho hawk which makes a meal of one Such food carried by the parent bird to young hawks while still In the nest also kills them. Hawks havo been catiBlng a great havoc among tho young chickens In that neighborhood, but are now being materially thinned out by this method. Ruseburg (Oregon) (Ore-gon) Review |