Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 272, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1916 — STRYCHNINE WILL KILL CROW [ARTICLE]

STRYCHNINE WILL KILL CROW

But Experts Are Asked to Explain Why Chicken and Quail Are Immune.

Harrisburg, Pa.—Experts-in universities and colleges of the state have been asked to Inform the state department of agriculture why strychnine will kill crows and not affect chickens when eaten. The state live stock sanitary board stirred up the question by sending out a notice urging that crows be exterminated and giving Instructions as to use of the poison. Some people wanted to know If chickens would be harmed by It. The board officials replied that they would not, and told of the result of an experiment by one man who had written to the department that he had fed strychnine in corn to brown leghoxn_cWdfcL_ ens and that they had not mioded lt fc bit. When he threw it out for the crows to eat he had to send out burial parties. On the other hand, quail did not seem to mind it a particle.