Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

To prevent crows from pulling up corn, I would recommend a simple remedy for the evil which I have practiced with complete success. It is only to put a few empty casks, with the head end up, in different parts of the field. The philosophy of it is, that the crows have no fear of anything which they have a fair view of, as it is what they cannot fully comprehend that deters them from committing their depredations-hence an field of corn surrounded with woods or near them, is rarely if ever meddled with, for fear of an ambush. As to placing effigies in a field for the above purpose, it is only an insult to their common sense. It is but yesterday that I saw one of these black coated gentlemen perched on the limb of a tree, to which one of those pretended scare crows was suspended, making the most ridiculous cawings imaginable, either at the image or its maker, most probably the latter.