Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1899 — Exterminating Swallows. [ARTICLE]

Exterminating Swallows.

Along the Adriatic sea swallows ansi other migratory birds are caught every?! year by the hundreds of thousands, anal eaten by the Italians, who spread lets|| in which as many as 300 to SOO ojf tM tired birds a*e caught at oncfc It ia|j difficult to stop this wholesale murdejll because, on sight of an offlcial. hunters’ spies give a shrill whistlajU the nets disappear. vij