Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 182, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1915 — AN EFFECTIVE SCARECROW. [ARTICLE]

AN EFFECTIVE SCARECROW.

An American tourist had been boast* ing again In the village inn. "Talking of scarecrows,” he said, with a drawl, "why, my father once put one up and It frightened the crows so much that no one entered the field again for a year.” He looked triumphantly around his audience. Surely that had settled those country bumpkins. But he was to meet his match. “That’s nothing,” retorted one farmer. “A neighbor o* mine once put a scarecrow into his potato patch and it terrified the birds so much that one rascal of a crow who had stolen some - potatoes came next day and put them back.” —Pearson’s Weekly.