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Colusa flanterDeeiares Guns' 
>hd wmmunrtiBti Are; Keatfy? 
s > ftoiProtect Crops. 
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'I SACRAMENTO, iA.u gust llr— Rice | 
isrrowera of .the Sacramento .valley, 
'now 'producing: crop valued In. the 
.millions, are buying: shotgruns and 
•ammunition <ln larg:e rquantltiea in 
preparation for an . off ensive ^ agrainat 
ducks, which swarm* into the fields 
and damage the crop. ‘‘ ^v. r.!-- , 
^ 'This preparedness movement to pro- 
tect thetr crops is being taken in spite 
of ^the “protests ‘ of ,the State Pish ^and 
Game Commission that the killing of 
,ducks'Out>of- season* for crop protec-, 
tiori is- illegal, .according to Morris 
Brooke of Sacrameifito, ' an extensive 
grower'of the Princeton, Colusa coun- 
ty. section. V • ; 
; GRO^HBRS - KNOW/OF L.OSSF 8 
' Brooke declares /.that ‘*despite 7 all 
the camouflage that has been used by 
the* fish and game authorities, ‘ the 
growers know that they have', lost 
much valuable grain' through thc*^rav- 
ages of these ^irds. Every 'Ounce^ Of 
cereal_;is needed this year Ih the,wln- 
tilng of .the war, and those farmers 
are not go^ng to sit -idly, by and’ soe 
the ducks eat up'.their ’crops. ^ Bucks 
have come. earlier this year; and they 
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are plentiful, tpo. 
‘.The growers are' going to 'see tliat 
the Federa^ agent appointed to tnves- 
Ugate damak<^ T>yroUcks to rlca gets 
the growers’pside.ofjthe question... 
< RICE ' BIRpis* 'NATURAt,’ IHlkED 
>“The 'g.rowers,*** Baysr^Brooka, '**faar' 
that this representative .will'* get Into, 
the toils, of I^esldefit FYank Newbart 
of .the 'State Fish ahd Game Comoois- . 
S on,' and-not^get tear inf ormatlbn bn 
le p ^tUatlonV ' iAn ... impromptu epm- 
J iittee <of growers'^ to spb ' this 
068 . not*' * happen 'already ‘ is . being 
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»*Tt' 4 s Utterly ridiculous tp say that* 
/lucks do liot feed on rice.' It.is/tha] 
patural foo"d df'-thb duck. ' I' remem*' 
J^er .that .a duck’ ‘club to ^ which vl b^.* 
longed spent ;| 40 " or $50 planting * rloe 
In "the swamps to attract ducks-’Vi^*S 
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