It also was offering bounties for snapping turtles, snakes, skunks, weasels, hawks, owls, crows and blue jays. Vermin destroy ten times the quail and woodcock than is killed by the hunter. More than two-thirds of the quail eggs never hatch because a snake, skunk, mink, weasel, cat or crow have killed the old birds. If the old birds were lucky enough to escape, the vermin ate the eggs. A snake was killed in Henderson the summer of 1924 and 16 quail eggs were found in its stomach.
Crows eat bird eggs of all kinds.
Consequently, the association was offering a system of points for each animal or egg exterminated. Cats topped the list. They were worth 15 points apiece. All other animals, or each of the bird eggs, were worth 10 points apiece. The right front paw of mammals had to be brought in, while the feet of birds was considered proof of a kill.