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The Things You Can Do To 
maintain more ducks and fish in your fav¬ 
orite waters, deal largely with providing 
FOOD, SHELTER and PROTECTION. 
Food, shelter and protection are closely 
connected with the matter of maintaining 
suitable PLANT life. Animal life is indeed 
dependent on plant life 1 
FOOD is Most Important 
Plant products, seeds, tubers, roots, etc. 
make up the bulk of a duck's menu and 
part of what a fish eats. Other things that 
they eat, such as insects, snails, crayfish, 
daphnia and other small forms of animal 
life are all dependent for their existence 
on plants. As an example. Wild Celery 
roots are not only eagerly eaten by the 
Canvasbacks, Blue-bill and Redhead 
ducks, but the plants also support great 
numbers of snails that fish as well as 
ducks love. 
Success 
SHELTER Needed Too! 
Ducks, especially the marsh-loving kinds 
such as Mallard, Pintail and Teal stop and 
stay where they can find hiding places 
and protection from wind and cold, among 
the thick marsh grasses. The grasses that 
afford fine food in addition to shelter, as 
does the Giant Wild Rice are doubly at¬ 
tractive to ducks. Young fish find excel¬ 
lent shelter and places of escape from 
their enemies, as well as food among the 
beds of water plants like Wild Celery, 
Muskgrass or Bushy Pond Plant. A baby 
fish is safe from heron, kingfisher or gull 
beneath the big floating pads of the Lotus. 
PLANT This Fall 
Foods That Last For Years 
Some of the best food and cover pro¬ 
ducing plants for ducks and fish are des¬ 
cribed on the following pages: 
Yours for success, 
T err ell’s 
AQUATIC NURSERIES 
