. The Game breeder . Fig- 9-— Tubers of wild Cyf-crus and United States, there is no doubt that itcan be cultivated everywhere except inthe higher parts of the Rocky Mountainregion. It is said to do fairly well atthe altitude of Denver. Chufas can be obtained from mostseedsmen and are so cheap that it willpay sportsmen to buy new stock everyfew years, if earlier plantings show de-generation in size of the tubers andhence reduction in value as duck food. cultivated chufas. (Natural size ) When possible the land where planting isintended should be broken up and freedfrom weeds. Plant the tubers
. The Game breeder . Fig- 9-— Tubers of wild Cyf-crus and United States, there is no doubt that itcan be cultivated everywhere except inthe higher parts of the Rocky Mountainregion. It is said to do fairly well atthe altitude of Denver. Chufas can be obtained from mostseedsmen and are so cheap that it willpay sportsmen to buy new stock everyfew years, if earlier plantings show de-generation in size of the tubers andhence reduction in value as duck food. cultivated chufas. (Natural size ) When possible the land where planting isintended should be broken up and freedfrom weeds. Plant the tubers just be-neath the surface in spring. Wild Millet. VALUE AS DUCK FOOD. Wild millet (Echinochloa crus-galli)is an important tood for ducks in widelyseparated regions of the United Mud Lake, Ark., the writer found 12 THE GAME BREEDER seeds of this plant to constitute more eron, La., over 75 per cent, of the dietthan 10 per cent, of the food of the 41 of a collection of 50 ducks of the same. Fig. it.—Part of fruiting head of wild millet. (Natural size.) mallards collected; at Belle Isle, La., it species. Pintails, teal, and other shoal-made up more than half of the food of water ducks are almost equally fond ofthe few mallards examined, and at Cam- it. Geese eat the stems and leaves of the THE GAME BREEDER 13 plant, as also do ducks when they arehard pressed. Testimony as to the valueof the plant has come from Wisconsinand Oregon, and the Biological Surveyhas found seeds of wild millet in duckstomachs from Massachusetts, SouthDakota, Missouri, and Nebraska in addi-tion to the States above mentioned. The plant is popularly known through-out lower Louisiana as wild rice and isgiven about the same rank as a duck spiny appearance (fig. 11). The innerscale of the- chaff terminates in a spinewhich is always stouter and longer thanthe others. This spine or awn may bevery short or it may be from 2 to 3inches long or more, surpassing by manytimes the length of the seed. One of
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