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ten feet sqxiare in one field and found that about tventj heads of grain 
bad been damaged by haying one or more kernels reaoved. Ur* J, T • 
Hunter told me that he hsd-soen these birds later feeding in the wheat 
fields in suall flocks, probably family j^irties. • 
The orow (Corvus b* paulus) was said to do some damsgo to corn 
by pulling the sprouting graSn* Jfore serious oomplalnts were made of ' 
slQilar damage in the peanut fields* This Is done of course by the 
resident breeding birds* On June 9, while waiting at Aroola for a sMans 
of transportation to TArrenton, oomplaint of oi*ows in peanut fields was 
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made by Ur* John O'Beilly* He said that four or five birds were feeding 
in a fielu belonging to him* He was given a ^formula for preparing a 
poisoned bait for these birds* 
^ A common method emr^loyed in an atteo^t to keep crows from the 
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flolus here is to stretoh twine back and forth above the cultivated area* 
1 saw one crow walking' about in the upper end of a field protected In 
that manner so tluit it may not be very successful* 
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