The E. I. duPont de Nemours & Co., Inc., powder-makers, offered $2,500 in merchandise prizes to the individual or club which, at the end of a three months' season, has killed the most crows or other birds or animals termed "vermin" in the prospectus of their competition. To prove the verminosity of the crow, an expedition of the duPont company went to the islands off the Virginia coast, habitat of the "fish crow"—peculiarly vicious. Many notable men have sprung, indignant, to the crow's defense. To his people of the State of Maine, Governor...
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