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SHOOT DOCKS 
Defeat State Fish and Same 
Commissioner in Long 
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BIOLOGICAL SURVEY ISSUES 
PERMIT AND RESTRICTIONS 
Growers’ Employes Given Right 
To Shoot; Consumption To 
Be Permitted 
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I AN FRANCISCO (Cal.) ^' Oc- 
tober 2. — The rice growers 
w of the Sacramento Valley, 
who have waged a long fight 
for the right to protect their rice 
crops from the depredations of 
ducks by the use of guns, if 
necessary, .-have won a decisive 
victory over the State Fish and 
Game Commission. . . 
The news of the victory comes in 
an order issued -toy the Biological 
Survey at Washington, OD. C., " 
ting the rice growers to shoot ana kill 
ducks invading their rice fields. This 
was ‘granted oVer the opposition of 
"the State Fish and -Game Commiesion. 
xtfhich fought the request for pcniuj- 
sion to shoot ducks, holding the birds 
could be kept off the fields toy the/uae 
of yockets, bombs, etc. 
Growers and Merritt Win. A • 
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The authorisation from the Biologi- 
cal Survey is a direct result /of the 
appeal made by the rice growers to 
California Food Administrator Ralph 
Merritt. Growers t>f the Willows dis- 
trict appealed to him to aid them In 
saving the crop from destruction after 
the State Fish and Game Commission 
had announced the Biological Survey 
i was sending a Federal Game Warden 
into the district to arrest and prose- 
» cute any -grower hilling ducks before 
the season opened. * / * \ 
Merritt took up the matter With 
Herbert Hoover, National Food Ad- 
ministrator,. recommending that the 
growers be fclven permission to Bhoot 
the ducks and that the slain ducks be 
made use of as food by the families 
the growers and in charitable institu- 
tions. The order permitting shooting, 
}ust announced by /the State Fish apa 
Game Commission' as received from 
the Biological Survey, is believed the 
result of the stepii taken by the Glenn 
growers and Merritt. ... 
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Growers Only to Shoot. 
The telegrard announcing the per- 
* by Carl Wegterfeld, 
sr of the State Fish 
tisslon, and is as fol- 
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wit is given • 
. executive o 
and Game 
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Carl Weeterf 
Blanket 
Butter. 
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Washington. .October 1. 
Fish and Game Commls- 
from 1 
‘hie n’h^veStAl. 
killed not t6 be sold, offered for 
[pped for purposes of sale . ■ or h« 
i wasted or • destroyed, but mki 
. for food purposes by persons ktll- 
m and mav be transported to hoB- 
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§£_ 
Due 
•giSta 
Sifed JSf^iT iSSSKiWiY £ call- 
lorn A for use as food. 
Most Mark Packages, 
y T>a.ckaj?e in which ducks are trans- 
ported must have name and 
•h jtooer and Of consignee and 
sr dement of number and kinds dusks 
chained therein clearly and consplc- 
iuslv marked on outside thereof- 
fEach owner or leasee of land on whloh 
pucks are killed must on or before Octo- 
ber 25th submit sworn statement of num- 
ber and° kinds of ducks killed each day on 
wuch land, manner of - disposition of ducks 
and cost of ammunition used. 
Make public foregoing. Full t*Xt_ per- 
mit by mail. • 
VOLTIKTEBR8 TO KILL DIMjKS. 
MARYSVILLE ("^ubg Co,). October 
'2. Mayor Mat Arooldy had received 
from E. Winters of the Motor Trahs* 
portatlon Corps, at the Rreaidlo. Ban 
Francisco, a letter volunteering to 
kfcltt ducks for the rice meh, )ln order 
to conserve meat tor 
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