* * • a BIRDS AND WIRES.
A traveller stopped the other day to talk to a linesman who was repairing the telephone wires on the Glasgow and Carlisle road near Abington. They had broken owing to the weight of snow lodged in their serried ranks. The wires are vertically above one another and six of them are abreast parallel. Now where wires are arranged in this way they are easily damaged by snow and they are very deadly to birds. Owing to similar experience on the Douglas Moors, Lord Home had the wires laid horizontally, showing only one wire to a bird in flight. Scarcely a bird has been killed since,
When this experience was told to the linesman he said that the Douglas road wires were the only ones which had passed through the storms unscathed. There was no hold for the snow. This double experience may be worth the notice of authority. Money, trouble and birds may be saved by the same wise arrangement.
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