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FOOD FOR WILD DUCK AND GEESE. 
Experiments in the propagation of wild rice 
and wild celery, SO' as to make a high class food 
ior the great flocks of wild geese and ducks 
which come to the Louisiana marshes every 
winter, have been begun by the board of com¬ 
missioners for the protection of birds, game and 
fish, says the New Orleans Picayune. The 
first planting was completed recently, under the 
auspices of the commission. 
At present the great wild rice and wild celery 
producing marshes of the United States are in 
the vicinity of Baltimore, Md., and the canvas- 
back ducks killed there every season bring the 
highest market prices paid for wild birds. The 
wild celery gives the flesh a flavor that can¬ 
not be gained from any other food. 
The wild rice marshes are also attractive 
feeding grounds, and it is said that wild ducks 
and geese feeding in such marshes can hardly be 
driven away from the food. 
The idea of the game commission in planting 
these wild vegetable foods is not only to con¬ 
serve the wild birds that feed in Louisiana every 
winter but to make them more valuable as 
foodstuff. 
The wild rice was sown in water ranging from 
eight to twelve inches in depth, and the wild 
celery roots in water ranging from two to ten 
feet in depth. The celery roots were first done 
up in balls of clay and then dropped to the bot¬ 
toms of the bayous. Just how soon shoots of 
the new plants may be expected cannot be 
stated definitely, but they should begin making 
their appearance by early spring. After the first 
crop, should this climate and soil prove adapted 
to the plants, the following crops will reproduce 
without further planting. 
It is said that the canvasback will go to the 
bottom of any bayou where wild celery may be 
growing. The ducks are of course compelled 
to come to the surface to feed, and then other 
kinds of geese and ducks get in their work. 
Other ducks, which are not so good divers as 
the canvasbacks, wait until a canvasback duck 
comes to the surface and then “yank” the 
coveted roots and get away. 
In this way the canvasback ducks, regardless 
of whether they are altruistic in mind or not, 
help feed the poorer divers. 
GULL’S EGGS. 
An old retired sea captain, who lives on the 
Oregon coast, is now engaged in preparing a 
seagull farm. His attention was first attracted 
to the matter by noticing the demand for sea¬ 
gull eggs. They are not so delicate as hen’s 
eggs, having a slightly fishy taste, but they are 
wholesome and nutritious, and many thousands 
of them are consumed annually. The prospec¬ 
tive farmer believes that if the gulls were kept 
in confinement awhile and properly fed, says 
the New York Fishing Gazette, their eggs 
would be as good as hen’s eggs. He proposes 
to fence in a piece of land along a slough, in¬ 
cluding a section of the slough, and to con¬ 
fine there as many gulls as he can procure, and 
believes that in a little while they will become 
tame and can be treated the same.as barnyard 
fowls. 
HOW FISH ARE CAUGHT IN THE SUS¬ 
QUEHANNA. 
Some of the fish catching contrivances in the 
Suscjuehanna are wonderful to behold. The so- 
called baskets are really boxes from which no 
fish can escape, and the walls built to inclose 
them effectively prevents even water getting by. 
One of the worst specimens of this form of 
piracy is between the Market street bridge and 
the Cumberland Valley Railroad bridge at 
Harrisburg. It is flanked by stone walls, which 
would bother a man to get over in the present 
state of the river, and which literally drive the 
fish toward the box. — Reading Eagle. 
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