means a gross revenue of up to $150 per day per pen. One variation of 
this new rate is $1 per duck, 
Rentals and Sale Values of Duck Lands, The shooting on $10 land in the 

Jonesboro section on the Mississippi rented, in one instance for 10-20¢. 
On the Illinois no rental figures were obtained. 
Sale values of duck lands in the Beardstown region, in farm-sized 
blocks, run from $150 to $300 per acre. At the mouth of the Illinois 
duck lands run near $50. A maximum price of $400 is sometimes reached 
in the Beardstown area. Dry lend pens have sold for as high as $100 per 
acre in 40-acre blocks. 
Reversions from Drainage, Values of land drained vs. undrained. No re-= 
versons from drainage have as yet occurred, but it is current talk that 
the Chatauqua and Cooke levee districts, broken in a recent flood, may be 
allowed to revert because their ducking value exceeds their agricultural 
value. 
Table L gives a very rough comparison of the em nomic status of 
drained and undrained farms, the former being assumed to be susceptible 
of development as duck lands, Of course not all undrained lands are of 
this class, 
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