Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1915 — Very Effective. [ARTICLE]

Very Effective.

An American tourist had been boasting, again in the village ian. “Talking o) scarecrows,” he said, with a drawl, “why, my"father once jilt ohe up, and it frightened the crows so much that not One entered the field again for over, a year.” He looked triumphantly around his audience. Surely that hod 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.