stale, also, at times, destroys some poulliy, particu 

 larly ducks. 



TRAP OR SHOOT THE TROUBLESOME HAWKS. 



When the poultry raiser discovers that a hawli or 

 hawlcs of auy species are paying regular visits to his 

 poultry yard, he should, at once, begin an investigation 

 and learn, if possible, where the nest or nests of such 

 unwelcome visitors are located. When this informa- 

 tion is obtained the bold feathered depreaators can 

 usually be shot or ti-apped at their nests. When this 

 is done the nests and young should be destroyed as no 

 humane person would want to leave the youug hawks 

 to die of starvation, as is so commonly done by the 

 heartless and money loving plume-hunters, who have 

 pt'acftically depopulated the southern states of the 

 beautiful herons. The hat-bird and plume-hunter, ii. 

 the pursuit of his nefarious business — one, kind reaaer, 

 which has been made possible because our mothers, 

 sisters and sweet-hearts, seem determined to decorate 

 their headgear with showy feathers — visits the breed- 

 ing places of the herons, egrets, etc., and shoots the old 

 birds from the nests. The clamorous young, by thou- 

 sands, in some large nesting places, have been left by 

 the heartle-ss wretches, to die by the tortures of starva- 

 tion, as the carcasses of their parents, denuded of the 

 showy feathers, lay rotting on the ground. 



_. KEEP TOUR EYE ON THE CROW. 



Frequently it happens that a pair of crows will set 

 up housekeeping in a woods in the neighborhood of 

 the farmer's chicken coops, and if left undisturbed they 

 will pick up a good many young chickens, and steal 

 all the eggs they can find. A visit to the woods will 

 generally enable you to discover the home of these 



