Show sportsmen plan magpie hunt to save pheasants all sportsmen of sevier valley are called upon through the richfield lions club to join in a big hurit hunt sunday june 8 to kill off the magpies which are reported to be robbing pheasants nests of eggs and young birds in a most alarming manner this year W 0 cluff announced to the lions club monday that marion and taylor thurber had made a careful check on their ranches just east of richfield and could not find a single egg left in the nests or a single young pheasant where last year there were hundreds of them mr cluff was appointed to organize the gunners for that day to shoot off these marauders instead of using their ammunition at the gun club shoot an effort will also be made to poison the magpies by planting meat ineat bait in trees these birds are very wise it is said and will not approach a tree where another magpie has been poisoned and left dead under the tree |