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California Conbor
Eben Mcmillan
21 may 1964
Must have misstated the amount of grain that Freeland
Farmsworth was going to bring in to have mixed with
Strychnine Poison. That it was 1000 pounds instead of
5000 pounds as a had in my notes. Also, Mr. Easley said
that the 25 and 75 percent of Poison mix that he puts
out for birds 25 percent for Horned Larks and 75 percent
for Linnets is 25 percent of bird seed in the mixture
that has been treated with a 25 percent dosage of
Strychnine while the Linnets, that hull the seeds before
eating it Need a poison dosage of 75 percent so that
the poison is strong enough to kill them from even holding
the hulls of the grain in their beaks before spitting
them out.
I visited with a new shepherd whom I had not met before
who was tending a flock about twelve miles east of Famosa. &
This Shepherd, Carlos Chamarrro, was a Spaniard who had
been in this Country five years, having returned to Spain after
his first three years of Service here in America and then
applied and had been given employment again after
a one year stay in Spain. He knew little of Condor but
stated he had seen fine big birds feeding on a dead sheep
Near a water tank, near the roadway, about one
mile up the Canyon from where his Camp is located. Mr.
Chamarrro wondered if I wanted to Shoot Condor if I
Should find them. He said he had no gun. I advised him
that were he to be found shooting a Condor that Officers
of the law would take him to jail where he would -