WIED DUCKS and WILD GEESE MUST EAT -- THEY CAN'T LIVE ON JUST W Ages. 
Ninety Percent of Their Food is Vegetation that Grows In and About the Waters — Natural Foods Planted This Spring Will Make Food for the Waterfowl Next Fall. 
Once a growth is established it will be permanent, growing year after year. The kind of shooting which you will enjoy rests in your own hands, you provide the food and nature will provide the wild water-fowl. Several kinds will make a more attractive feeding ground, wild waterfowl 
Here are several of the more important and most hardy kinds for spring planting. Select those suited to your favorite shooting place and mail your order now. Complete planting instructions covering each kind are furnished. 
like a variety of foods. 
GIANT WILD RICE 
Mallards, Pintails, Blackducks, Teal, Widgeon and Can- 
ada Geese fly hundreds of miles to the Wild Rice Marshes. 
A field of Wild Rice once established makes a permanent 
feeding ground. 
Best places for planting wild rice are in sloughs, marshy 
lakes or ponds. In bays or coves on larger lakes, streams 
or rivers where it will be protected from waves. Wild rice 
does the best in fresh waters from 6 inches to 3 feet deep 
where there is a mud bottom. Twenty-five pounds of seed 
plants one acre. 
Delivered Price 
$1.40 per pound; 10 Ibs. $12.00; 25 Ibs. (bushel) $28.00 
WAPATO DUCK POTATO 
The Wapato Duck Potato is a very good Wild Duck 
good. the waters remain nearly the same level the year_ 
: allards"and other shallow water ducks will feed 
upon its tender shoots, tubers and seeds. In places where 
there is an overflow or the water deepens during Fall and 
Winter, Canvasbacks and other divers will feed upon 
Wapato. 
Wapato propagates largely by tubers. The tubers planted 
this Spring will produce fully matured plants next Fall. 
This plant is very hardy and will grow well in most any 
inland waters. It does the. best in a fairly rich soil on 
damp lowlands, mud flats or in water from 1 inch to 1 foot 
in depth. 
Delivered Price 
$35.00 per 1000 tubers; 500 @ $18.00; 100 @ $4.50 
WILD (JAP) MILLET 
Called Wild Duck Millet or Goose Grass, ranks almost 
as high as Wild Rice as a Wild Duck Coaxer. It is fine for 
planting along banks or on wet soils, excellent for places 
dry in Summer and flooded in duck season. Grows 4 to 6 
feet high and produces a large seed head, abundance of_ 
food. Thirty pounds plants an acre. 
Delivered Price 
$.40 per pound; 25 Ibs. $7.50; 50 Ibs. $14.00; 
100 Ibs. $26. 100 lb. lots via freight. 
WAMPEE DUCK CORN 
The seeds shell off the stalk in late Fall and will hold 
the Mallards and other marsh ducks after many other 
foods are gone. 
Wampee seed may be planted this Spring in wet soils 
or shallow waters. Ten pounds will plant an acre. 
Delivered Price 
$1.50 per pound; 5 Ibs. $7.00 
AMERICAN LOTUS 
Canvasbacks, Redheads, Bluebills, Mallards and Blacks 
darken the sky over the wild celery beds. Wild celery is 
fully as important as wild rice as a duck food. 
Wild Celery is an important food and cover plant for 
fish. 
The Wild Celery is a hardy submerged plant which will 
grow in almost any fresh waters from 2 to 8 feet in depth. 
It grows well in slow running streams, lakes or ponds. 
Tubers of the wild celery should be planted during 
Spring. 
Delivered Price 
$35.00 per 1000 tubers; 500 @ $18.00; 100 @ $4.00 
SAGO PONDWEED 
_ GOOD ALL AROUND DUCK FOOD 
Early in the season Pondweeds bring Mallards and Teal, 
later the Canvasbacks and other divers. They are hardy 
and will grow under almost any water conditions. 
The most important food plant of the Pondweed family 
is the Sago Pondweed, a submerged plant and perennial. 
When once established in your waters insures a permanent 
feeding ground. 
Pondweeds are very highly recommended as food and 
cover plants for bass, and other game fish. 
Tubers of these plants should be planted this Spring in 
waters from 1 to 6 feet in depth on almost any bottom, 
either fresh, stagnant, alkali or brackish waters. 
Delivered Price 
$35.60 per 1000 tubers; 500 @ $18.00; 100 @ $4.50 
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BURREED 
A food plant for marsh ducks. The seeds are like kernels 
of corn and are eagerly eaten by mallards and other shoal 
water ducks. 
Burreed grows on damp lowlands or in shallow waters 
from 1 inch to 6 inches in depth. 
Plant Burreed roots in Spring or early Summer. 1000 
roots plant one acre. 
Delivered Price 
$35.00 per 1000 roots; 500 @ $18.00; 100 @ $4.50 
MUSKGRASS 
RAPID GROWING DUCK FOOD 
Widgeon, Gadwalls, Green and Blue Wing Teal, Buffle- 
head, Ruddy Duck, Mallards, and Bluebills like Muskgrass. 
A few bushels of muskgrass planted this Spring will 
produce a few acres of food for the ducks next Fall. 
This plant is also a valuable food and cover plant for 
fish. 
Plants with seed spores can be planted this Spring or 
Summer in either fresh or alkali waters from 2 to 12 feet 
in depth on almost any bottom. Four bushels will plant 
an acre. 
Delivered Price 
$8.00 per bushel 
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FOR DRY OR MOIST SHORES AND BOTTOM LANDS 
Lbs. WILD MILLET SEED—10 Lbs. @ $4.00 or 100 Lbs. @ $26.00 
THREE SQUARE RUSH 
Of about 150 different kinds of rushes, the Three Square 
Rush is the most important as a wild duck food. It pro- 
duces a sizable cluster of meaty seeds which wild ducks 
are fond of. In sandy soils or firm rich soils that are just 
moist or shallow waters it grows best. Roots are planted 
during Spring. 
Delivered Price 
$39.00 per 1000 roots; 500 @ $20.00; 100 @ $5.50 
WATER SMARTWEED 
A favorite of the Marsh Ducks, they feed upon the seeds. 
It’s very hardy and will thrive from the far north to the 
deep south. Smartweed will grow in either wet soils or 
shallow waters. Root sections can be planted NOW. 1,000 
Roots will plant an acre. 
Delivered Price 
$31.00 per 1000 roots; 500 @ $16.00; 100 @ $4.00 
WHITE WATERLILY 
An excellent food and cover plant for fish. White Water- 
lilies are very ornamental and will beautify the waters. 
Delivered Price 
$8.00 per 100 White Waterlily tubers; $16.00 per 100 
White Waterlily rootstocks; $3.00 for 10 White Water- 
lily rootstocks 
NOTE—250 roots or tubers of any kind will be sold at 
one-half of the 500 price. 
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FOR SHALLOW WATERS, ONE FOOT OR LESS IN DEPTH, OR REAL WET SOILS 
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Se HARD STEM BULRUSH ROOTS—100 @ $5.50 or 1000 @ $45.00 
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DEEP WATER DUCK POTATO 
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 nut-like tubers on its roots just beneath the 
bottom soils which the Wild Ducks glut themselves with. 
Plant the tubers this Spring. A soft mud bottom is best 
and will produce a luxuriant growth next Fall. One thou- 
sand tubers plants one acre. 
Delivered Price 
$35.00 per 1000 tubers; 500 @ $18.00; 100 @ $4.50 
HARD STEM BULRUSH 
The Hard Stem Bulrush is excellent for Wild Ducks, it 
provides food and cover. It is the most important of Round 
Stem Bulrushes as a wild duck food. Also ideal for borders 
of fish ponds, providing good cover for game fish. 
This species of bulrush is very hardy, it will grow in 
either wet soils or shallow waters to three feet in depth. 
It thrives in either a sandy soil or a rich mud bottom, 
from the Gulf of Mexico to Hudson Bay. Either fresh, 
acid, alkaline or brackish waters are suitable. 
Delivered Price 
$45.00 per 1000 roots; 500 @ $23.00; 100 @ $5.50 
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are eaten by Mallards and other wild ducks. 
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aeaty Lbs. AMERICAN LOTUS WATERLILY SEED—@ $1.50 per Lb., 5 Lbs. $7.00 ...... 
: WHITE WATERLILY TUBERS—100 @ $8.00 — Rootstocks—100 @ $16.00 
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The flowers of the American Lotus are very beautiful, 
of a light yellow color often eight inches across. They are 
hardy and grow in quiet shallow waters where the bottom 
soil is fairly rich. 
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Ten pounds will plant one acre. 
Delivered Price 
$1.50 per pound; 5 lbs. $7.00 
GAME FOOD NURSERIES—P.O. BOX 371—OSHKOSH, WISCONSIN—PLANTING INSTRUCTIONS FURNISHED FOR EACH KIND. OSHKOSH, WISCONSIN 
