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FIGHTING DUCKS 
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Butter Rice Growers Find Bomb- 
ing Campaign Expensive 
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Dodge Company Spends $4,000 
for Supplies; “Game, or Food 
—Which?” Asks Official 
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LIVE OAK (Sutter Co.), September 
23. — Rice growers in this section are 
making a •strenuous fight against 
ducks that infest their fields in great 
flocks. > * 
Bombs are being freely used night 
and day. These bombs cost $5 per 
dozen, and rice men declare their am- 
munition bills will make as sad havoc 
with their finances as do the ducks 
and geese with the rice. 
Farmers in the vicinity of the rice 
fields are kept awake nights by the 
V>a»vv cannonading. 
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COSTS LAND COMPANY 
g4,000 TO FIGHT, DUCKS 
CHICO (Butte Co.), September 23. — 
."The Dodge Land Company is paying 
approximately $1 per acre to keep 
• ducks out of its rice fields. -We have 
invested $4,000 ift paraphernalia.” 
This is the statement made here 
by H. O. Jacobsen of the company 
in discussing the situation arising 
from the announcement by the State 
Fish and Game Commission that the 
Biological Survey is sending a Fed- 
eral Game Warden to Willows to ar- 
' rest and prosecute any rice grower 
who shoots and kills ducks out >of 
season. “ 
Fears They Have Dyspepsia. 
"If the Federal Game Warden 
comes onto our property, we will ex- 
pect him to do his sworn duty and 
preserve the life of the - ducks by 
keeping them out of the rice fields. 
They may get dyspepsia from over- 
eating of rice,” says Jacobsen as a 
pleasantry. * f 
* ‘‘Our company is using bombs and 
searchlights. So far this season we 
have had no difficult^, but last^ year 
we had a terrible time. 
‘‘Our men h4ve been given no or- 
ders to shoot ducks. They have guns 
and shells, but have been Instructed 
not to shoot ducks or game wardens. 
If a duck dies of fright, they are not 
supposed to pick It up. I have not 
ceen a dead duck this season. 
Game or * Food— Which T 
"We ask legal means to protect our 
property and be enabled at the same 
time to follow the , requests of t he 
Food Administration to the bfcat \of 
©ur ability. Whether er pot the pro- 
tection of game is more vital thdn 
the protection of food is the question 
that must be determined.” * . * 
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