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  1. Scarecrows Then and Now



    There was a time when protecting the crops from predators was the task of children. A dearth of children in the wake of the Great Plague, some historians surmise, led farmers to use adults to guard their crops. Some kept watch in straw huts. Others stood on wooden lookouts.

    As farms grew larger, human-like effigies rose from ...
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