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reported to him by his son. He believed that the damage compared to that inflicted on the Basye place was slight as his grain was threshed immediately before the ducks had opportunity to complete the destruction. 

In studying this damage it was of some interest to note that in the Stuttgart region damage by ducks was reported from fields in an area not more than three miles across. Reports of darm did not come from outside this section though this may be ascribed probably to threshing being completed in the areas before the ducks began to work in them. 

Other ricefields where damage by ducks was reported were visited in the section about De Witt on December 19.
 
At the farm of Park Moses a mile from De Witt a field of 110 acres of Blue Rose rice in the shock was examined. This rice had been slow in development and the harvest consequently had been late. Mallards had fed here in large numbers, coming at night and leaving for some roosting place at the approach of day. As the shocks were frozen solidly to the ground they were torn down in only a few instances but in many cases I found that the cap sheaf had been displaced. In all of the shocks much of the grain exposed outside had been eaten and in one section comprising about one-third of the field the exposed sheaves had been completely stripped (see figs. 3-[[strikethrough]]5[[strikethrough]][[4]]). In addition the ducks had burrowed in between the bases of the sheaves in many shocks in order to get at the inside grain. Much straw had been pulled down by the birds in feeding and was trampled in around the bases of the shocks. Mallard feathers and considerable amounts of excrement were scattered about. The yield in this field as shown by undamaged sheaves had been very heavy. Mr. Moses estimnated his loss at approximately 2,000 bushels and this considering the