dies " when permitted to run in fields where no shade is provided. 

 The complaint is easily detected : the young ducks appear to be 

 dizzy and soon fall and expire. It is said to be similar so sun- 

 stroke. I have seen hundreds of ducks die in this manner on 

 a hot, sandy field, even when shade was provided, and last 

 year at The Game Breeders Association preserve we took all 

 of the ducks, when a day or two old, to the side of a shallow 

 pond and placed the hens in their coops on the bank, letting the 

 little ducks swim in the shallow water. The result was excel- 

 lent. We had no trouble whatever from "sunstroke" nor, in 



fact, from any cause. The pond where the ducks were liberated 

 was wired with chicken wire a few feet from the shore to keep 

 out turtles, big fish and frogs, all of which kill and eat yoimg 

 ducks, and the coops also were protected by a wire fence to 

 keep out foxes, skunks and other ground enemies. Traps were 

 placed on tall poles and in trees, and many hawks and great 

 horned owls which took some ducks were trapped and pre- 

 vented from doing much damage. 



The water was warm and shallow and the weather remained 

 positively hot. Abundant shade was provided about the 



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