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...discount the importance of overshooting, modern firearms, lax game law enforcement as causes of duck decline. Last July it sent researchers on a 3400-mi. jaunt through the heart of North America's chief wild duck nursery-the prairies of North Dakota and Montana in the U. S., Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Alberta in Canada-to find out what was happening to the ducks before they started South. The surveyors found the region, from a duck's viewpoint, in a sorry state. Where ducks once thrived and multiplied they were now dying by thousands. Causes: 1) farming; 2) drought...
...Then hot, windy weather comes to suck up the water, leaves ducklings fatally high & dry. Falling water levels in larger ponds and lakes foster the decay of organic matter, the growth of microbes which give both young & old ducks botulism, "western duck disease," a form of food poisoning. At Saskatchewan's Johnstone Lake an estimated 150,000 ducks died of this disease during August and September...
...hadn't seen that Bill was there, I would have kept the puck myself." Bill was Bill Cook, oldest active player on the Rangers, leading scorer of the National League, finishing what he thinks may be his last season of hockey before he retires to his Saskatchewan wheat farm. He took the puck without breaking his stride, feinted to bring tall Lome Chabot away from the Toronto net, then flipped the puck over Chabot's shoulder for the goal that ended the game 1 to 0, the series...
...woolen goods, out of Liverpool steamed S. S. Pennyworth (Dalgliesh Line) for the three-month port of Churchill on Hudson Bay. It was a test cargo, first shipment of goods into Canada's upper interior through the trade mouth that she opened last year to disgorge her Saskatchewan. Alberta and Manitoba wheat to European markets (TIME, Sept. 14). Last year's two test shipments of wheat out of Churchill, totaling 500,000 bushels, were wholly successful. The S. S. Farnsworth, first test ship, passing out of Hudson Bay by Hudson Strait under the bleak heel of Baffin Land...
...Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, a dynamite cap which Rosette La Haye, 19, had used as an ornament on the tip of her pencil for a year, exploded, blew off three of her fingers, injured...