tempered dnfeM striking at their fallows* Baring these studies 1 
ana able to looata the flooks at night by following these sounds* 
Other waa claimed whan tba grain was in the shoe*, when 
it oould not ba threshed quickly but no instanoaa of thia wera witnas- 
sad this fall* Their is no question but that hoary loss nay result at 
this tints without proper protection , (ms report by 'fetooro on an inv^s- 
* 
tlgatlon of daaags to Hina by dudes in Arkansas in 1917*' 
That the dudes wars actually destroying the rioa was prorad by 
obssrration of the birds feeding and by examination of the fields after 
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they had bean frightened out* Qo several occasions pintails and mallards 
that ware shot at daybreak fro® flocks on their way to their resting 
grounds from the rioa fields had the throat literally paokad with rioa 
r$S?jj .ifc* " 1 V.A. i.M\ '■ •• , ?r.p '.%£{* , / . 
from tha stomach forward almost to tha opening of the windpipe* some 
of these 'hfltt contained at laaat a pint of rice , taken from the stalk 
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as at thia time there had bean no rloe out* Stomachs and gullets intact 
taken from those birds ware sent in to the Biological surrey as specimens* 
Excrement of the birds examined on mud bare on their loafing ground con- 
sisted in large part of rioo bulla* 
In one tract of 6000 acres near kaxwell (under water as one pro- 
Jeot but farmed by aereral parties) by aotu&l estimate it waa found that 
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126 acres of rioa bad bean eaten by duoka* Thia grain would hare yielded 
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from 10 to 25 cache of rloe per acre# Host of It would have run from 10 
to 12 eaoha but occasionally arc* a of heavy vice that had been atUoiii 
were encountered* 
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An actual tabulation of tha riot destroyed here made Sept* 26 and 
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27 in oompany with H> G* Bryant of tha 3tate Fish sad Gama Oonelssian is 
as fellowat 
