Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1913 — Of Corn Will Kill Crows. [ARTICLE]

Of Corn Will Kill Crows.

From Minneapolis, H; O. Fish back, state insurance commissioner, Mas received a letter suggesting a method for getting rid of crows. In his letter the writer declares that in lowa he found a way of getting rid of the “black pirate” by the simple method of taking a hotse hair, passing it through a kernel of corn and scattering it where the crows could And it. Thus when a crow swallows the corn the hair will remain in his throat and it can not get it out, as a result of which it will never trouble that particular farmer or his vicinity again. Senator Fishbaek says the remedy might work on crows, but it would be equally disastrous“**Tor chickens, so he says any one using that method should be careful.