Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1877 — Hawks as Poultry Destroyers. [ARTICLE]

Hawks as Poultry Destroyers.

Colorado has, by legislative enactment, given a bounty of 25 cents for each and every hawk scalp. At Denver city, Since the hawk season commenced, the money paid for scalps for that county alone averages from S3O to S4O per day. These hawks arc mostly killed in the vicinity of chicken ranches, and the bounty does not offset their ravages on the poultry. They not only carry off the young and half-grown chicks, but actually attack the full-grown fowls, which are often killed by the furious onslaught of the rapacious hawks. Meadow larks have almost been exterminated by the com - mon enemy.- —Nevada Territorial Enterprise. < Ex-Congbessman H. O. Pbatt, of lowa, has left politics and the law, and become a Methodist minister.