1 JUNE 1907, Page 14

ROOKS AND ROOKERIES.

L're RUB EDITOR or TOR seecesTou."1 Sta,—The followipg is a true account of an experience of a vicar in Breconshire. He had an acre on his glebe-land which bad become coarse, and be was advised to plough it up and sow corn. When the corn sprouted, a few rooks trespassed, but one especial mother-rook was there all day,—her nestlings were close by. The vicar became enraged, and though he had never before killed a rook, be took his gun and shot the mother. He fully expected to be justified in the examination of the crop, which was crammed, but not with corn. It was Lull of wire-worm, and contained very few grains of corm The vicar told the writer of these lines that never again would he take gun against a rook.—I am, Sir, &c., E. M. G.