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PLhAlTTISG THE TILLING OF 41QHAT0BT SOCKS WHICH HAVE BLOCKS 
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S2B10USL? IHJUBIOUS TO BIOS CROPS IS ABEAM 813* 
Information having been furnished tha sec re tary of Agriculture 
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that migratory ducks have become, under extraordinary conditions, 
seriously injurious to the rice crops in Arkansas and an investiga- 
tion having been made to date mine the nature and extend of the injury 
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oomplained of and whether the birds alleged to be doing the damage 
should be killed, and if so, during what times and by what means; and 
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it having been determined by the Secretary of Agriculture that migra- 
tory ducks have become, under extraordinary conditions, seriously 
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injurious to the rice crops in Arkansas Oounty, Arkansas, and that 
the migratory duoks doing the damage should be killed by shooting 
from sunset to hlf an hour before sunrise from December 5 to Dec- 
ember 31, inclusive, 1910 t 
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Mow, therefore, X, D* F, Houston, Secretary of Agriculture, 
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pursuant to authority in me vested by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act 
of July 3, 1918, and agreeably to regulation 10 of the Migratory Bird 
Treaty Act Regulations approved and proclaimed July 31, 1910, do 
hereby order that persons owning or leasing land in said Arkansas 
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County, State of Arkansas, on which rioe is being g r own or being 
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harvested, or has been sheoksd, or their agents, may kill by shooting 
