Birds: Screen frames are used for protection 

 against birds, but at no time are all germinating beds 

 protected frois them. In the p&st, birds have "beer, 

 nuisance rrund the seed bo u. The red poll linnets 

 would come in large flocks and raid the newly sowed beds. 

 When scared from one block of beds, they would fly to 

 another. I boy was kc iring most of the growing season 

 to scare then away, but the birds could not be kept from 

 doing considerable dar.cge. Ihe federal law does not 



-mit killing the bir ; <is year, for some unknown 

 reason, bir ve no trouble whatever. 



Screen frame e sft/ve only &,- re caution to the 



the birds. If these screens can be be abandoned 



^ 

 ^reat saving will be made, not only in the cost of the 



screens, but also the 1 mount of handling that is 

 necessary in their use. i'o cover all the beds with screen 



aid mean a total investment of 15,000. Tho question 

 would be solved if a permit could be gotten from the state 

 game warden to shoot these birds. 



Other losses: of two-year old pine 

 beds were sun scorched last summer. 



It is estimated that $100 worth of damage was 

 done to the new fall sowed white pine beds, when a stray 

 horse got into the nuroery one night, and made a rao 

 course of pt rt of the no. -owed .'he act baa not 

 been a year In the life of the Savonac Nursery that somt 



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