B. S. 19298 - Scaffold 15 ft. high erected in rice 
fields as lookout post from which to guard against 
depredations of blackbirds. A herder armed with a .22 
caliber rifle, shoots into the rice under flocks of 
blackbirds that attempt to alight. 100 acres of rice 
were guarded from this stand. Gridley, California. 
September 17, 1918* 
B. S. 19299 - One day’s limit of ducks 
(25 birds) shot and then abandoned when 
hunter discovered birds with duck sickness 
about the sloughs. Norman, California. 
October 17, 1918. 
