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WILD RICE 
TO LURE THE MARSH DUCKS 
Mallards, Pintails, Blackducks, Teal, Widgeon and 
Canada Geese fly hundreds and hundreds of miles to 
the Wild Rice Marshes. During Fall they find the 
ripened grains in great abundance, also shelter and 
hiding places among the tall growth. If there are 
several Wild Rice Marshes in the vicinity, great 
numbers of these waterfowl will be seen passing 
from one marsh to the other. In the north only the 
freezing water will drive them out. Farther south 
they will stay on these good feeding grounds 
throughout the entire winter. Wild Rice is also 
very important as a Muskrat food. 
A field of Wild Rice once established makes a 
permanent feeding ground, for Wild Rice reseeds 
itself from year to year, 
WHERE TO PLANT 
The best places for planting wild rice are in 
fresh water streams, sloughs, marshy lakes or 
ponds, having an outlet, soft mud bottom and waters 
from 6 inches to 3% feet in depth. In sunny shel- 
tered bays or coves on larger lakes, streams or 
rivers where it is protected from waves or strong 
currents are excellent places to plant. If planted 
upstream, parts of the plants and some of the seed 
produced, will be carried downstream’ each year, 
and become established in suitable places all along 
the waterway. 
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Near the seacoast wild rice 
will thrive in streams where 
the waters are not salty to 
taste and where the tide is 
not over four feet. Tame rice 
fields that depend on tides 
for their water supply are 
usually very good places for 
growing wild rice, or in old 
abandoned rice fields where 
there is a change of water. 
Wild Rice is easy to grow. 
It does very well in Canada 
and the northern states above 
the Mason-Dixon line. It has 
proven a success in a few of 
the southern waters where 
conditions were nearly exact. 
A free change of fresh water 
is the main requirement. 
PLACES NOT 
SUITABLE 
Years of experience has taught us that Wild Rice 
does not do well in landlocked lakes or ponds (those 
having no outlet) waters salty to taste, strongly 
alkaline or on white mar] bottom soil. Such places as 
along the Mississippi River and its tributaries where 
the water rises and stays ten feet or more above 
the low water mark for several weeks during spring 
are also unsatisfactory. Wild Rice will be drowned 
Wild Rice Head 
(Zizania Aquatica) 

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