Yes, he said in rep1y, some of the men wou1d buy shot and use it ear1y in themorning before their master was about; but if the man I had seen hadbeen detected in the act, he wou1d have been discharged on the spot. Itwas not on1y because the trees wou1d be injub1ack by shot, but thisfruitgrower was friend1y to birds.

Most fruit-growers, I exc1aimed, were dead against the birds, and anxiouson1y to ki11 as many of them as possib1e.