. The Game breeder . furnish a cap-able duck breeder to take charge of sucha farm and the advertisers can furnishwild ducks and eggs. There are many small ponds andmarshes where individuals aiso, mightundertake wild duck breeding for State might well supply them withstock birds just as the Agricultural De-partment supplies seeds to those who willmultiply them. Soon the people of Ohiowould have cheap wild ducks to eat andthe State Department would become ofgreat economic importance. THE GAME BREEDER FIVE IMPORTANT WILD DUCK FOODS. Part II.—By W. L. Biologist, U. S. D
. The Game breeder . furnish a cap-able duck breeder to take charge of sucha farm and the advertisers can furnishwild ducks and eggs. There are many small ponds andmarshes where individuals aiso, mightundertake wild duck breeding for State might well supply them withstock birds just as the Agricultural De-partment supplies seeds to those who willmultiply them. Soon the people of Ohiowould have cheap wild ducks to eat andthe State Department would become ofgreat economic importance. THE GAME BREEDER FIVE IMPORTANT WILD DUCK FOODS. Part II.—By W. L. Biologist, U. S. Department of Agriculture. the wood duck, mottled duck, mallard,and canvasback. Chufa. Like some of the other duck foods mentioned in this circular, chufas are at description of plant. present known to be of only local impor- The chuga (Cyperus esculentus) (fig. tance. Those best acquainted with con- 8) belongs to the group of plants known ditions at Big Lake, Ark., one of the as sedges. These are grass-like and us-. Fig. 7.—Range of the wapato. See March number. most famous hunting grounds of theSouth, believe that the chufa, or nutgrass, as it is there called, is the principalelement in rendering that lake so attrac-tive to waterfowl. Examination ofstomachs from that locality seems to jus-tify this belief. Six out of a series ofnine mallards collected at Big Lake inDecember, 1910, had fed on sedgetubers, the average percentage of whichin the total food of the nine was of this species or others of itsgenus have been found also in duckstomachs from Florida, Illinois, Minne-sota, and California. The species ofducks now known to feed on chufas are ually classed with the grasses by non-botanists. Many of the sedges, however,including the chufa, have triangular, notround, stalks. The members of the ge-nus Cyperus have a group of leaves atthe base from which rises the stalkbearing the flowers and seeds. In thechufa these stalks are from 1 to 3 feethigh. Several flower c
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