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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. 
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 
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very good places for growing 
wild rice, or in old abandoned 
rice fields. 
Wild Rice is easy to grow. 
It does very well in Canada 
and the northern states. It 
has proven a success in south- 
ern waters where conditions 
were ideal. 
PLACES NOT 
SUITABLE 
Years of experience has 
taught us that Wild Rice 
does not do well in landlocked 
ponds (those having no out- 
let) waters salty to taste, 
strongly alkaline or on white 
marl 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. If conditions 
such as described exist in your waters then we sug- 
gest the planting of other duck foods which are 
suited to such places, find them described on the 
following pages. 
Wild Rice Head 
(Zizania Aquatica) 
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