to be from 1 to 5 v;hitev/ings on ever:v stalk, fhe around v.^as v/liite v/itli tlio 
they hi'X’ d wasted, kr. Pottes, deputy game v/arden, exi.imined several hun- 
dred birds £ years ago, lialf held nothing but grain, the rest a mixture, but very 
fev; had as much as SO,.’ other 2 m:.tter. 
kr. korrell oomitod the wheat in a v/hitev/ing .diioli seemed full, ‘ind 
there Y;ere daS grains. 
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firs 
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for 
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rix3en 
well 
after 
the 
'prer^rojio v/ith whom 1 talked told me experiences like tie above, and 
I could cite more instances of a, similar nature, kbout 25 faimiors v;ith whom 
I t::-lked near Glendale were all bitter on the subject, but seemed vagvie in 
regard to the actual amount of damage done, although positive that it is 
very large. 
Based on estimates from the 200,000 acres in the valley, furnished by 
the Jdateijusers board, there are this year 7,500 acres in wheat, 11,000 in bar- 
ley, and 52,000 in sor.ghuin of various kinds. Because of the doves, theine is 
a tendency to nlant less oi 
one is nlantinw the sorglrmr! 
in Geptember, \vriich means a possibility ■ of frost damage for some, and con- 
sequent loss of crox). The greatest damage done this year iias been near 
Arliiigton, but as this is 50 miles from 7ho#nix, 1 thought it inadvisableto 
investigate* Ko one v.lio Icolos into this rnnkoter, oven casually, can doubt but 
thii.t there is enormous dmage being done, and ny oxunion is thiit diiring the v/o.r, 
at least, v/hen food stuffs are so imv’Ortant, eveiy thing should be done to re- 
duce the nuonbers of doves x^^'‘Gsent in the Galt Liver Talley. They do not 
breed, at least to any extent in this territoiy, but raise their young on the 
desert, and congregate from over a vast amoxxnt of territoip', according to in- 
foimiation received, so it v/ould be many years before tnoy could be decimated to 
