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✔️ J. F. Wilson
✔️   Harfts Bros
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         Citrus
[[?Houen]]
Childs   field eaten by ducks.
Ed Tuner
Go through Markham
  Eulands - Blue Creek Canal Co
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✔️ Mr, [[?Hardy or Harty]] - Bay City
✔️  " S. Foster -             "    "

✔️ M. G. Marshall

✔️ W. H. Ramsay - [[? ? ? ?]]
   V. L. [[?Letulle]]- - Bay City - Hardware Co

Mr. [[?Hount]], Bay City

  Heubner 3 ^[[miles]] out
Geo. "
Taylor "
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M. G. Marshall - S.R.G.A.
brown spots in rice hulls due to sweat in "picky" wheat [[?]] is [[?]] to birds
Rice birds - Redwings are worst damage
to rice.  Ducks do damage.
  Stacking rice may burn it if weather
is wet.

 Mr. Harty - B. S. 1/5 crops.
 Mr. J. F.  Foster damage by Jackdaws
 pulling sprouting grain in  Spring.  Not much
 trouble [[?June]] thru later on in season. Also
 damage corn.
   Redwings begin to damage crops in
 fall as soon as rice goes into [[?milk]]
 about first of August damage continues
 on through fall until grain is finally thrashed.
 Birds come in [[?hordes]]. Mr. Foster had
 76 acres this past fall, hired man
 to shoot birds out of it, and expended
 about $50 for ammunition.

  Damage by ducks in some years.

  Poisoning tried sometimes with
success  sometimes without.
Mr. W. H. Ramsay - large rice grower.
Claims damage by Jackdaws, Blackbirds and Ricebirds.    Birds do some harm by picking up grains at planting.  Blackbirds & Ricebirds begin to gather in when rice is in and damage by their [[?]] until grain is finally thrashed and stored away.  Estimate loss from blackbirds at 1 bag in 5 [[?with ?800 acres]] with average yield of [[?]] bags 185 to 190 lbs to bags, 54 lbs to bushel.  Former years 4000 to 6000 acres of rice
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Transcription Notes:
mandc: "Milk" or milky is one of the ripening stages of the rice plant: Ripening follows fertilization and can be subdivided into milky, dough, yellow, ripe, and maturity stages. These terms are primarily based on the texture and color of the growing grains.