Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1909 — BOUNTY FOR CROWS’ HEADS. [ARTICLE]

BOUNTY FOR CROWS’ HEADS.

Representative Brown Wants to Reward Slayers of “Poor Jim.” According to legislative reports in the Indianapolis papers, the republican representative from this district, Mr. Brown of Monon, has raised his arm against poor Jim Crow, and if his bill becomes a law Jim will have to hike to the tall timber to escape being killed for the bounty that will be placed on his unlucky head. Mr. Brown says, according to the papers, that his bill is inspired by the farmers of White county, who wants a bounty placed on crows’ heads. Their activities, he says, during tne early corn-growing season are divided between canng for the tender shoots and frightening away the dusky maurauders that settle down upon the fields by ten of thousands and feed on the green blades. His measure provides that county commissioners may offer a bounty not to exceed 10 cents a head for crows killed, ihe bounty being optional with the boards. “In our northern counties’’ said Brown, “the loss among the farmers from crows amounts to thousands of dollars annually. They feel in White county, at least, that they can well afford to pay the increase In taxes if an increase is necessary to provide for the bounty money.”