t’ild Ducxs and other Birds in Relation to tbs 
Bice Crop in Arkansas in 1918. 
Introduction. 
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?or the purpose of securing further inforaation in regard to 
the status of wild ducks in relation to the rloe crop in Arkansas I 
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arrived in Little Book* Arkansas on November 24* 1918. Prom there 
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I continued to Delitt* Arkansas on the same day and using that town 
as a base worked through the surrounding rice district until Hot* 
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29. £. V. 7isart of our warden force worked with me from Hot. 26 
to 26 inclusive. On November 30 1 returned to Stuttgart where the work 
was finished. 
Travel in the country in southeastern Arkansas was difficult 
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because of heavy continued rains that had put the roads in bad condi- 
tion. Thus ong one occasion the Ford oar that 1 used was stuck in 
mud boles five times in a distance of eleven miles* trouble of thie 
sort was of daily ocoumnee. >. , 
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Condition of Bioe Crop. 
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In 1918. about 173,000 acres was devoted to the culture of 
rice in Arkansas, Lonoke, St. Franods, Pulaski and Prairie Counties 
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Arkansas. Complaint of damage by duoks has come mainly from Arkansas 
County. The dry summer here (of 1918) had caused a shortage of water 
for Irrigation which had retarded the growth of the rloe. The heavy 
fall rains that had followed had hindered the harvest so that on Nov- 
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ombsr 26 it was estimated by Mr. Kennedy in ot th# southern 
