Saturday, May 11, 2019

N.E. Parks Has Record for Catching Hawks, May 7, 1919


From the Greensboro Patriot as reprinted in The Alamance Gleaner, Graham, N.C., May 7, 1919

Hawk Catching Record

Mr. N.E. Parks lives on the land of Mr. J.R. Hughes and they had been having considerable loss of chickens on account of the hawks carrying them off.

Mr. Hughes bought a steel trap for Mr. Parks to try his luck catching hawks. A tree was trimmed up and the trap placed on top of it so that if a hawk would light his feet would land most likely in the steel trap.

Within a period of less than 12 months Mr. Parks reports that he has caught 26 hawks, three owls and one crow.

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