{"id":1928,"date":"2013-01-01T06:53:25","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T06:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/?p=1928"},"modified":"2013-01-01T06:53:25","modified_gmt":"2013-01-01T06:53:25","slug":"to-frighten-crows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/?p=1928","title":{"rendered":"To Frighten Crows."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"39c6668e916543b4a7bf784d6ba1971d\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-2182508389013555\";\r\n\/* Med-Banner *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"5485677463\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>     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.<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[189],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}