fi’om the Biological Survey office, itt 
Washington, 3D. C., farmers owning 
rice fields in Butter, Colusa, Glenn. 
Sutter, Yolo and Yuba counties, will 
be permitted to shoot ducks that are 
destroying their rice. 
This Vuling was mad^ yesterday 
and will take effect immediately. 
However, this ruling has nothing 
to do with hunters. For sportsmep 
the regular season will open as usuel 
on October , 16. Farmers will not be 
allowed to hire extra ^help to kill 
the duckfi and all birds that cannot 
toe consumed by the farmers must be 
shipped to some charitable institu- 
INVESTIGATION HELD, 
The . Fish and Game Commission 
recently conducted an investigation 
to find just how badly the ducks have 
destroyed the rice fields and out of 
the 145,000 acres planted to rice only 
100 aches have been molesetd. This 
is attributed to the fact that the 
dupks are nnable to get into hun- 
dreds of the fields on account of the 
height of the rice stalks. .. 
This investigation was made by 
H. C. Bryant, economical ornithol- 
ogist; Carl Westerfeld and a. repre- 
sentative of the Rice .Growers’ As- 
sociation. All agreed that the fields 
had been destroye din some places, 
but the majority were left untouched. 
However, ‘ after a thorough discus- 
sion of the problem, it was deemed 
absolutely necessary to make the 
ruling and a suggestion to that ef- 
fect was forwarded to Washington. 
ORDER FROM* WASHINGTON. 
Washington, October 1. ’ 
Carl Westerfeld, Fish and Game 
Commissioner, San Francisco: , 
Blanket federal permission 
granted rjce growers members and 
immediate families and employees 
dn Butte, Colusa, Glenn, Sutter, 
Y'oflo and Yuba counties, California, 
to will ducks from September 30 
to Oct rebol5 inclusive. 191, in open* 
fields of rice when necessary to 
protect i rice crops from damage by 
ducks. No ducks to be shot at 
from artificial or natural blinds or 
from fields from which rice bas 
been harvested. 
Ducks killed not to be sold, 
offered for sale, shipped for pur- 
poses of sal or be wantonly wasted 
or destroyed, but may be used for 
food purposes by persons killing 
them and may be transported to 
hospitals and charitable institu- 
tions in California for use as food. 
Any package in which ducks are 
transported must have name and 
adddress of shipper and of con- 
signee and accurate statement of 
t number and kinds of ducks con- 
tained therein clearly and conspic- 
uously marked on outside thereof. 
Each owner or lessee of lan$ on 
which ducks are killed must on 
or before October 25 submit sworn 
statement of number and kinds, of 
ducks killed each day on such land. 
Manner of dispostion of ducks and 
cost of' ammunition used. 
Make public foregoing. Full text 
nCrra it by mail. ' 
P ' HENDERSON. > 
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