A KiiJ’OBT ON IMliAC£ 70 BICB BY BIBBB IK COLOl'.ABO, mBTOK, 
i^HB MA7A00HBA COUNTS. T£JUiB. 
Is Aooordanoa with letter of authority 212->Bi and written instruo- 
tiona, after owipleting an inveatigation of datoage hy Birds to rice in 
Arlsaaeas 1 left little Book, ArJtansaat on t^unday Becenber 23, and pro- 
ceeded to Eagle Lake, Texaa, arriving there on Ohriatmas day* Field work 
was carried on in this region as followst Eagle Lake, Becember 25 to 27t 
Wharton, Beoeiober 28; £1 Oainp^ Boeeaber 29; Bay City, Becember 30 to Jan- 
uary 2* From Bay City, Wadsworth and Matagorda were visited on January 1 
and a trip made by automobile on January 2 covered regiozis devoted to 
rloe culture near Markham, £1 tiaton, Ashby, Citrus Grove, Slmpsonville 
and Wadsworth* On January 3 aome infonoation regarding bird damage was 
seoured in Houston at the office of the Southern Bioe Growers Assooia- 
tlon* This last area lies outside the region assigned at the head of this 
report* 
Om^AL INFQ9-AIATI(1I . 
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In the counties vmder oonsidaration rice is one of the most im- 
portant oropB. The land surface is level and fozmorly was mainly open 
prairie with occasional oak motts scattered thraug^ it* Bioe is grown by 
irrigation, mainly by means of water drawn by pumping stations from the 
Colorado Biver* At Eagle L^ water is pnmped from the river into Eagle 
Lake and then drawn out again on the opposite side into raised irrigation 
oanala* At the time of my visit Eagle Lake, normally a body of water 
three miles long by one mile broad was dry save for a narrow canal through 
the center that oonnooted two pumping stations on opposite aides of the 
