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Willows, California.
May 14, 1918.

Mr. E. W. Nelson,
Chief, Bureau of Biological Survey,
Washington, D. C. 

Dear Sir: 

I am in receipt of your letter of May 7, inquiring for the names of the makers of explosive bombs for protecting rice fields from ducks, the California Fireworks Company, of 249 Front Street, San Francisco, California, have made a specialty of these bombs, which cost about fifty cents a piece. This firm has done considerable experimenting and have succeeded in making a very good bomb.

The bomb contains two charges and is shot from a small mortar, the first charge throws the bomb about two hundred feet in the air where it explodes with a loud report and forms a small cloud of smoke.

Where these bombs are properly used they are bery successful in keeping the birds away from the rice. 

Yours very truly,

PACIFIC RICE GROWERS' ASSN.

(Signed) Ernst E. Behr.
Secretary.

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