BIRD LIFE.
preservation of wild ducks. AN UNUSUAL GIFT. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION-COPYRIGHT NEW YORK, June 21. Ihe Audubon Society, the pioneer in the protection ot bird life, announces the receipt of an unusual gift of 26,000 acics of land in Louisiana as a memorial to the late Paul Rainy, the noted explorer and naturalist, by his sister, Mrs. Grace Rogers, who has also provided a large endowment to keep the land perpetually planted with cereals sufficient to feed 100,000,000 wild ducks every winter. The territory will be carefully guarded against hunters in order that it may become truly wild. The reclamation of 77,000,000 acres of swamp land for the purposes of agriculture has appallingly restricted the areas upon which wild dudes mav feed, and the present plan calls for the planting of eight different kinds of cereals to afford the ducks a varied diet. Once attracted hither the ducks will never he frightened by the sound of a gun, and under such conditions they will grow tamer than domestic pigeons.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 23 June 1924, Page 5
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