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that they were now feeding tons of grain in the effort to 

 induce the ducks to remain during the shooting season. 

 It should not be a very difficult matter to wire some of 

 the desirable ponds against the carp and to destroy all 

 of those within the protected territory, when the wild rice 

 could be restored, and soon it would grow as luxuri- 

 antly as it formerly did. 



There are many duck clubs in the vicinity of Chicago 

 and Northward at Fox Lake and other desirable places. 

 The whole vast region along the Illinois River in the 

 vicinity of Peoria and Havana is occupied, and there are 

 hundreds of clubs about the marshy lakes of the Western 

 and North Western States. On the Pacific coast the 

 duck clubs already are numerous in Oregon and Wash- 

 ington and abundant in California from the vicinity of 

 Sacramento South to Los Angeles, where there are lit- 

 erally miles of clubs. 



There are a few clubs about the great reservoirs in 

 Ohio, and there are many clubs in New England, es- 

 pecially in Massachusetts. 



Along the Atlantic coast there are many insular clubs, 

 which own for the most part the islands where their club 

 houses are erected. 



The Princess Anne, the Ragged Island and the Back 

 Bay Clubs, a short distance from Norfolk, Virginia, mark 

 the beginning of a long line of clubs (most of which have 

 fine club houses), which extends Southward through 

 Currituck Sound to the waters of the Albemarle and 

 Pamlico. Many men act as guards to keep out poachers. 



To the Southward there are many more clubs, notably 

 those about the mouth of the Santee, in South Carolina, 

 and the number is increasing. 



