The Archive · 1940

Wasps and Scarecrows

In "Hints for the Home Acre" there {is a plea for wasps and centipedes tro eating injurious insects and only In' the auturan do, they" intoxeate selves and revel in our Tipe f second instalment of "Science and Experience and the Scarecrow" fruit-growers, gardeners, ornithologists and bird photographers as to the best way of scaring birds from lerops. The following seems to be from a pessimist:

"The only sure searer Is a man with 1 gun, Our' birds. are far too soph:

floated, Yo" take "notice of anything etsemA. "Ht. Brown, farmer.

Pls is kinder waving' "inthe wind," oF "pieces "of 'A. man's Jung on a stick,

newspaper spread out Were and there StS active naifs rom, clappers and blank shots are local and of short SurallonA. J. Hester, farmer.

Says Major James Keith inter alia:

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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