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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...
...Winnipeg, Man., Chief Buffalo Bow of the Northern Saskatchewan Indians was distressed by the prolonged drought. He mustered his braves, organized a rain dance to invoke the Great Spirit. Thereupon it rained for two days...
...last week. Month ago George Miksch Sutton, onetime Pennsylvania game commissioner, and John Bonner Semple, retired Sewickley, Pa. manufacturer of Navy ordnance* were 40 mi. north of Churchill on the western shore of Hudson's Bay. With them were Olin S. Pettingill of Bowdoin College and Bert Lloyd, Saskatchewan ornithologist. They were collecting birds, plants and insects. Competing with them was a party of the Canadian Ornithological Society. Hope of both groups was to be the first to find eggs of a Harris's sparrow...
...cotton purchaser with his Southern sales receipts. The War started cotton on its historic climb to 40? per Ib. Mr. Wrigley sold without loss (he has never admitted making a profit). Again last December he announced the same barter plan for wheat in the Canadian provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. His company promised to buy out of its sales receipts 1,000,000 bu. at not more than 65? per bu. By last week 500,000 bu. had been thus purchased at an average price of 55? per bu. Meantime Wrigley gum sales in the region have increased...
...real issue has nothing to do with Saskatchewan Catholics, Quebec farmers or Ontario's industrial proletariat. The na- tional issue is the Canadian tariff...