The Massachusetts Spy, And Worcester County Advertiser

A New Destroyer. The myriads of pigeons which have lately visited this county are almost as destructive to the farmer's prospects as the swarms of locusts in ancient days to the ill-fated husbandman of Egypt. They seem to make clean work where they alight upon the corn-fields, and farmers in this and the neighboring towns are said to have had 6, 8, 12, and 15 acres of the young corn pulled up by these mischievous birds. Multitudes are shot and taken in nets; but a farmer in Fairfield has adopted a new way to "come Paddy over" them: he soaks his corn in whiskey, and scatters it about the fields—the pigeons soon become intoxicated, and are thus caught easily by hand! A solution of arsenic is reported to have been sometimes used—but this is an improper and dangerous experiment.

Little Falls (N. Y.) Friend.