Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1911 — Many Farmers Think Council Should Provide Crow Bounty. [ARTICLE]

Many Farmers Think Council Should Provide Crow Bounty.

The Republican editor has talked with a number of farmers the past few days about the crow bounty proposition and finds that there is practically a unanimous opinion among them that the county council and commissioners should provide for the carrying out of the law passed by the last legislature providing for bounty on crows and crow eggs. The crows are doing a lot of injury at this time of year by eating turkev eggs. They rob the nests often as fast as the eggs are laid and sometimes will drive setting turkeys off the nests and devour the partly incubated eggs. They also dig up a lot of freshly planted corn and a lot more that has just come up. In the harvest season they eat a lot of the ripened grain. It is believed by many that a general campaign in all counties will soon greatly diminish the number of crows and frighten most of the balance away, and that the counties that do not provide for it will get the worst of it by these black marauders. It might be proper for the council at the approaching special session to ptovido the funds to carry out the law.