12 Hilton St. , 
Hamilton, Ontario, 
July 7th, 1910. 
ile:: V/estmorG, Esc. , 
Dept, of Agriculture, 
wasliington, D. 
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Dear Sir: 
He Bulletin Ho • El 7 of Hay 26th, 1910. Having insisted that 
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mortality amongst wild fowl in Utah and California resulted from 
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poison. I inavc nudi pleasure in congratulating’ you on the valuable 
result of your able investigation. 1 take the liberty of infoming 
you that more than forty ears ago numbers of duels, Huron Scooter 
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died on Burlington Bay, the Head of Lake Ontario in the enact way 
as described by you, and evidently from the same cause.. I had the 
pleasure of owning for some years from 1870 an imported English 
Cocker Spaniel, one of the best retrievers the world ever produced. 
During a stroll by the Bay Shore of an hour's duration he oulu brin 
in ten or twelve of these ducks, some of them dead, others at their 
last gas . They were fat and in good condition. At that time the 
waters of the Bay were not polluted by waste matter from factories. 
none being then established on its shores. Hy humble opinion is the 
poisoning occurred before the ducks reached here in April ana ..ay. 
