Excerpt from The Crow in Its Relation to Agriculture: Is It a Farm Pest?Trapping at times has brought relief where other methods have failed. NO wholesale reductions in the number of crows has ever been accomplished by this method, but when a few birds have been trapped and their dead bodies have been left exposed In the fields, their relatives are inclined to shun the immediate vicinity. Crows have been secured mainly in steel traps carefully baited with hens'About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.