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THE GARDEN AND FIELD. 



September, 19] 3 



A RECORD ! 



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FIRST PRIZES 



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Australasia Chambers, 

 King Wm. St., Adelaide. 



Magill, South Auitralia 



atmosphere of birds, but I pre- 

 serve my fruit. I had a gardener 

 once who set to work shooting 

 birds because an army of tits 

 stripped a cherry tree of its buds 

 in a single morning. I stopped 

 him and explained that no amount 

 of shooting would memd matters. 

 You must protect the fruit and en- 

 courage the birds, to do their office 

 of protecting the trees from grubs. 

 The water brings the birds, and I 

 feed theVn. on the principle that 

 when birds cease to be hungry they 

 cease to be mischievous. I have 

 blackbirds, thrushes, the whole 

 finch tribe, the wasftail and innum- 

 erable sparrows. The thrushes clear 

 mv lawn of worms. I have not a 

 .slug in the whole place, and the 

 fruit flourishes because the birds 

 do their office,' and I protect the 

 fruit. It is far easier to protect 

 than to shoot, and while protec- 

 tion is effectual, shooting is ridicu- 

 lous. Blackbirds and thrushes like 

 Strawberries, and Strawberries I 

 protect bv erectina over the entire 

 bed a tent of netting 6 feet high. 

 Once arranged it is good for years. 

 Pears I protect with bags made of 

 mosquito net. When properly grown 

 Pears cluster, and a basj may en- 

 close half a dozen. No birds touch 

 them ; the fruit is the more deli- 

 cate in the result ; and the string 

 of the bag being passed over a 

 neighbouring twig, if the ripe frjuit 

 falls it hangs in the bag. Those 

 who know nothing about it, and 

 want to shoot sparrows, exclaim, 

 " What a cost and what labour : " 

 Nothinpr of the kind ; a few shill- 

 ings and a few hours, and the bags 

 last for years. 



Another correspondent takes a 

 different view of the question, es- 

 l)eciallv with regard to the spar- 

 row, for he writes ; — ^Though it is 

 a moot point whether or not the 

 sparrow always deserves the hard 

 things that are said about him, 

 we own that he is a rascal, a 

 thief, that he actually beats his 

 Avife, indulges in un.seemly brawls 

 and revels in ripe fruit orchards 

 and newlv sown gardens. But his 

 master passion is a love for those 

 very insects that do more harm 

 than the whole bird creation, and 

 as his appetite (especially that of 

 the youn^ brood) is a voraciouis 

 one, he destroys great numbers of 

 these pests. Still he is a pest," 

 and adds, " we caught over 2,ooo 

 sparrows and finches in a very 

 short time. Make a feeding place 

 bv spreading some chaff and gzain 

 on the spot where it is intended 

 jilacing the trap behind some bush 

 fence or wall. In a day or two 

 l^lace the trap in position ; allow 



the birds to pick up grain undis- 

 turbed for a day or two before 

 putting it into use the cord being 

 a'ttached to the top of the stick 

 anfl long enoiigh to reach the fence 

 or wall as the case may be. By 

 giving a slight jerk at the cord 

 yo\i set off the trap. I have often 

 caught as many as fifty vbirds and 

 more, in one haul." 



The following account of another 

 method, except for a possible ob- 

 jection on temperance grounds, 

 seems almost as effective. Steep 

 a few handfuls of wheat in 

 sweetened Brandy and strew it 

 about. It is recorded that when 

 the sparrows foimd the dosed 

 wheat thev thotight they had got 

 to a picnic, and so they had; but 

 in 15 or 20 minutes they were the 

 tipsiest lot of sparrows ever seen. 

 They rolled about the groimd fall- 

 ing on their sides and backs, and 

 kicking their heels in the air, all 

 the while uttering the most comi- 

 cal squeals. Their squeaking did 

 not last long for the boys gather- 

 ed them up and threw them, into 

 bags, gathering in the first day 

 two bushels' of inebriated spar- 

 rows. Three or four days later 

 the experiment was repeated with 

 almost equal success and from 

 time to time afterwards till the 

 sparrows finally tabooed the 



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CLEANSO WAY IS BETTER. 



The old washing way« had to be tho- 

 roughly tested before they could really 

 be called GOOD. If you do the same 

 with COX' CLEANSO— give it a tho- 

 rough test, use it according to the 

 instructions on each bottle (nmt using 

 too much) there is only one conclu- 

 sion you can come to, and that is, 

 that it is far better than the old way 

 of rubbing with a lot of soap, for 



CT-EANSO saves half your time, 

 CLEANSO saves a good deal of 8o»p 



CLEANSO dispenses with the need 

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OLEANSO obviates all tiresome rub- 

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CLEANSO cleanses THOROUGHL' 



CLEANSO is non-injurious to ev 

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