AERONAUTICS: Sowing

In Manitoba, the Department of Agriculture, having perused a survey by Professor V. W. Jackson which showed no wild rice crops in Canadian lakes north of 53°, sent sacks of wild rice to Lake Cormorant to be strewn over suitable marshes by airplane and thus to restore the natural food of countless wild ducks, observed flying south of late years during the rice season (August-September).

Tired Gull

One Thomas Marshall, fisherman, looked up from nets he was tending in the middle of the English Channel and squinted off over five miles of tossing...

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