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breed in this region but these are so few that they would be capable of doing practically no harm and serious inroads are to be feared only form the attacks of migrant and wintering birds. These [[strikethrough]] will [[/strikethrough]] ^[[should]] not begin to arrive here until about November 20 when cold weather [[strikethrough]] will [[/strikethrough]] drive^[[s]] them from their northern feeding grounds. Any rice that remains in shicks at this time will be subject to attack and from the experience of this year it would seem that in some cases it may be lost completely. Rather than chance this contingency the intelligent rice grower should make every effort to get his crop harvested and under shelter as early as possible. Otherwise he runs chances of sustaining serious loss.
 
In some cases it might be possible to save late rice when it was in danger of being attacked by ducks by stacking the sheaves in round stakcs with the heads toward the center. This would effectually prevent any unjury from birds. Such a method would entail handling the rice a second time after it had once been shocked and so would add to the expense of labor used in production. There would be some additional loss of rice in handling as the grain "shatters" or rattles off from the heads when dry but such losses would be small compared with the destruction of the entire yield. It might be possible to stack the grain in centralized areas where it could be threshed without necessity of hauling which would aid in reducing the expense of labor and loss by shattering. 

Damage by ducks has been experienced here in slight amount on other years previous to 1917 but has been so slight as to attract little attention from all accounts. Such damage has always come in very wet years when shocked rice was left out for a long time. Water standing in the rice stubble attracted ducks and these did more or less damage to the