Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 288
y aboutone hundred bird-minders on this plantation, who shootfrom three to five kegs of powder, of twenty-five poundseach. Add to this the cost of shot and caps, and youmay know at what an enormous expense our fight withthe bobolink is kept up. After all the waste of money,our loss of rice seldom… … THE BOBOLINK. these ruinous ways of his. He is all beauty killed. Still the number of bobolinks invading and music. Sometimes he may plunder a corn- the rice-fields each year seems in no way di- field slightly, but in Pennsylvania he is not minished, and the aggregate annual loss they guilty even…
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