Wild Rice Brings the Ducks! 
Where Wild Rice grows you 
are sure to find wild ducks — 
swarming in to feed on the 
large nutritious grain. It is the 
best known and most im- 
portant food for Mallards, 
Black Ducks, Widgeons, Teals, 
Sela Pintails, Canada Geese and 
thE Sami On frosty mornings, tramping along 
the edge of the Wild Rice marshes one will 
be startled by a series of frightened quacks as a 
flock of Mallards, almost at your feet, jump out of 
the tall growth of Wild Rice, where they have been 
feeding, sheltered from the chill autumn winds. Wild 
Rice beds are also used by the ducks in the spring, 
as a place to hide their nests and rear their 
ducklings. 

Wild Rice is a No. 1 attraction for Muskrats, sup- 
plying both food and house building material for 
these valuable fur bearing animals. 
Wild ‘Bice reseeds and takes care of itself from 
year to year making a permanent feeding ground. 
WHERE TO PLANT 
Wild Rice is easy to grow. There are many places 
throughout the U. S. and Canada where Wild Rice 
does not grow, but where conditions are suitable for 
it. these places could and should be planted with 
Wild Rice beds. Briefly stated the conditions re- 
quired for successful growth of Wild Rice are fresh 
water streams, lakes or ponds having an outlet, soft 
mud bottom, and water from 6 inches to 3 feet in 
depth. Sunny sheltered bays or coves where plant- 
ing will not get the current or direct wash of waves, 
suits it best. 
Wild Rice does not grow in water salty to taste. 
Near the seacoast it grows along streams twenty to 
fifty miles above the point where they enter the sea. 
~where the water ceases to be salty to taste and 
there is a tide of not over four feet. Any spots where 
fresh water brooks or springs enter the stream will 
be fresher and better for Wild Rice. 
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