Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1911 — Electric Bells Scarecrows. [ARTICLE]

Electric Bells Scarecrows.

it is said that there is no beast which despises an electric bell so cordially as s bird. The people who have been adorning their premises with scarecrows of various types, in ths hope of dissuading the crows, blackbirds, and other thieves from settling down upon the crops, have overlooked the only thing that will drive a bird away as far as he can fly and keep him there throughout all time. If the farmer were to take advantage of this recent discovery of the bird's antipathy to an eleetrie bell, and install a few wires and cheap bells-in his gardens and fields, he would acquire the disapproval of the birda so that they would not even eat his cherries. Ths efficacy of this type of scarecrow, by the wuy, was discovered lately by the teacher of an Austrian public school, who has a patent on a clock which connects a series of bells with the batteries at regular Intervals—Just often enough to keep the birds unsettled and annoyed.