The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1858-05-14
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CROWS .-Mesas. Editors: A subscriber tt
lthe Go. Gent, Hartford County, OF. tt
whom I sent a barrel Of seed corn, ask
me to answer through the Co., Gent, stb'
following: ha' 1'61a''7 a'pn "a Y
'"Havc YOU a method Of preparing th'
seed for planting. to stimulate its growth
or prevent its being destroyed by birds !
Do crows grow more bold every year will
us' Last year scarcrows did no good
and they were very destructive Iufor
nation from you will be thankfully re
ceived." 81 ..ia ''1917'ap) 9Hi ni 'lia..
10 I have tried for years in succession al
Of the nostrums to prevent birds from
pulling, worms from eating, and steep'
Of various kinds 10 stimulate its growth
and .6ud that tarring the seed makes il
distasteful to birds, they will pull and eat
but little; but as to worms eating it, they
seem to relish it equally we'll. The
sleeps to stimulate growth, rolling in
gypsum, &C., amount to but little. You
cannot make enough adhere to the seed
to make any preceptible difference. and
unless the soil and season favor the corn
will not come up so well as il planted dry.
For instance, ifyou steep, the seed, and
after planting, it is very wet and, cold, it
will grow as well, or ifit is very dry it will
not come as well; tarripg it will retard Its
termination in any case. For the last
five years I have planted seed dry, recen.
ly hand-shelled from the cob. ava vfpJ
For scarecrows, the best l know Of 10
a few crows shot and hung up in differ
ent parts ofthe field by one leg, or bait
and catch them in steel traps. In my
younger days. for years these scafeerows
were ample to keep off birds.9y Every
Yankee farmer should have good gun
and ammunition, and know, how to use it,
Find all the crows nests in your imme-
diate neighborhood ,ibreak up their nests,
seize their young. and then is the time to
shoot Of the old ones. IL once secured six.
teen in two hours. Go over your corn
field daily, and if the crows have drawn
any, be there the next morning by three
o'clock with your artillery, or the crows
will be there before you, and salute the
first conner with coldlead from your car
ly morning gun, and il you do rot succeed
in baggiug him, be and his neighbof will
come to conclusion that they had better
let that man s corn alone. Another way
Of fkeeping crows from your field Is BY,
twining. String wool twine from stake Z
to stake once IN fifteen rows, directly over
the row. You can cultivate the first
time, and let It remain. Do the twining
Immediately after planting, and il would
be rare to have a crow light Oh the field
while the twine remains. "'A. Y'''u - 70,
Crows grow bold by The cry Of their
young for food and by man beng slack
and easy; instinct teaches them whose
corn it will 40 TO pull. Tie fields 'for
which crows have 50 strong 4 taste, are
generally shallow and half plo1wSed, 1875
than half manfred, bordered around BY
bushes, bfiers and weeds, and enclosed
by amere apoligy for fence. Years ago
one Of your peace men had a field with
one Of these ugly borders. which always
have g. great tendency, to widen; at hoe
ing, none wanted to hoe the, outside row.
the alteration between the, boys would
finally be- settled BY the old mansaying,d 4
"tLet the devil take the outside FOWL Z
and in few years he had the whole
field. ns8dig,N y,,7o,,l,0
4 Should the. above. mentioned scare
crows fail to keep the crows from pulling
the conn., soak other corn, 10, rum orwhis-
key and strychniue and scatter broadcast
on the field, II TAeys like the humans. will
like ,,ths0 taste, ,butl certain, as stheycat
Of it they die. YoaswillAin most,of che.
liquor load sslsuandI enough Strychuiae,
without adding more. orrdo.thewOrk for
The crows.- Country, ,Ge'alsman.T
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