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...Steve Crothers, trapshooting champion of Pennsylvania: a shoot against the champions of 40 other states, the canal zone, and Alberta; by breaking 200 consecutive birds, as he had done in winning his state championship; at Vandalia, Ohio...
...shrunk the breeding grounds of western Canada, prevented nesting and feeding, killed adults and fledglings (TIME, Aug. 10). However, the real effect of drought has been questioned. Ducks have been reported more plentiful than ever in Manitoba, presumably attracted from the desiccated swamps and waterways of Saskatchewan and Alberta. Quebec has had ample rainfall (as has the entire Atlantic Coast) this summer. Quebec birds seem normal in numbers and health. In his next issue Editor Raymond Prunty Holland of Field & Stream will remark: "It is hard to believe that a healthy pair of canvasbacks, having found their home destroyed...
Siam's small, brown King Prajadhipok marched behind 125 large, hairy Scottish bagpipers in Banff, Alberta, one day last week. The pipers shrilled and wheezed ''The Campbells Are Coming," but behind the King came Rear Admiral Thavara Chayant, royal physician, Siamese Minister to the U. S. Prince Amoradat Kridakara and two inspectors of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. In a motor car came Queen Rambai and the royal suite. They arrived at a large field. King Prajadhipok (incognito as Prince Sukhodaya) ran St. Andrew's flag up a tall flagpole and opened formally the fifth annual...
Reason for the duck scarcity is continuing drought, which has dried up the sloughs and ponds in southern Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, in the Dakotas, Minnesota and Montana, chief North American breeding-places for ducks. Several yards from a marshy place on the prairie, the mother-duck builds her nest, lays in it from ten to 18 eggs. When these hatch, she leads the ducklings immediately down to the water. In ordinary times, duckling mortality is high. Turtles, hawks and even large fish consume many. In drought times mother & brood may find no water at all and so perish...
...Canadian conservation officials gathered twice last month, first at Edmonton, Alberta, then at Bismarck, N. Dak. At the second meeting a resolution was passed urging: 1) that the open season be limited to 30 continuous days, instead of eight or ten weeks; 2) that the daily bag be restricted to ten ducks instead of the present 15 (formerly 25); 3) that ducks in possession be kept down to 20; 4) that all baiting of hunting grounds be prohibited...