Deep Water Duck Potato 
(Sagittaria Rigida) 
Another favorite food for all kinds of Wild 
Ducks. The diving ducks feed on it during fall 
in the deeper waters, Shoal water ducks eat it 
if the waters are low during fall. It is a rapid 
grower and produces abundantly of food. It has 
numerous acorn like tubers on its roots just be- 
neath the bottom soils which the Wild Ducks glut 
themselves with. One can hardly drive the ducks 
away from a good bed of Deep Water Duck Pota- 
toes and if they do leave it is only temporary, 
they soon return for more. 
Plant the tubers in the fall in from one to five 
feet of water. A soft mud bottom is best and 
will produce a luxuriant growth next year. 
In planting deep water duck potatoes just fast- 
en the tuber to an eight penny nail with a small 
rubber band and drop them in the waters in the 
desired place. One thousand tubers plants one 
acre. 
Deep Water Duck Potato tubers $13.00 per 1000 
66 66 (13 “6 ‘6 1.50 per 100 
Wild Duck Millet 
(Echinochloa crusgalli) 
Attracts the shallow water ducks. Ranks almost 
as high as Wild Rice as a good duck food in 
localities where Wild Rice cannot be grown. Wild 
Duck Millet grows to be 4 to 6 feet high and 
makes good blinds as well as to produce a large 
seed head with an abundance of meaty grain for 
the Wild Ducks. 
Seed of the Wild Duck Millet may be sown 
during fall. The next year it will produce a real 
erop of duck food. A hundred pounds will plant 
three acres and under favorable conditions has 
been known to produce two ton of feed. 
Wild Duck Millet grows best on wet low lands 
or mud flats. It does very well in the bottom 
lands of the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers and 
their tributaries, also on old abandoned Rice fields 
and such places as can be flooded during the duck 
hunting season. Fairly rich soil is best. Seed 
can be simply broadcast, 35 pounds to the acre. 
Wild Duck Millet Seed $10.00 per 100 pounds. 
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