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POISONING SPARROWS
Vinegar and Strychnine
Mr. E. Watters, of Tallygaroopna, has been very successful in poisoning sparrows by a simple, but novel method. Sparrows are notoriously shy of taking wheat that has been poisoned. Mr. Watters mixes one ounce of strychnine in a 2 lb jam tin of vinegar. This is sufficient to poison a bushel of wheat. Two or three “free feeds” of unpoisoned wheat are given to the birds and then wheat flavoured with vinegar is given. This is followed two or three evenings later by the poisoned wheat. Mr. Watters poisoned over 1000 sparrows at his first attempt using only 10lb of wheat.
The Argus
Anyone watching may have assumed that the three men who burst into the chapel of St Michael the Archangel were in an almighty hurry to repent. But the only person who
