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Decoys Alone
Won't Bring Ducks

Would you like to have duck hunting like the
old-timers tell about? Would you like to have
hundreds and thousands of waterfowl come to
your favorite waters every fall?

If you do, restore what brought the ducks in
the good ol’ days—feeding grounds. Decoys alone
won't bring ducks. But natural aquatic foods
will. Ducks are gluttonous feeders, and will fly
hundreds of miles to find abundant food. Wild
ducks cannot live upon waters without food and
therefore migrate on to the places where they
find plenty of the kind of food they like.

In waters where their natural food does not
grow now, it can very easily be planted and the
waters made attractive to the wild waterfowl.
There are important food plants for these wild
waterfowl which will grow under almost every
water condition that exists.

The future of your duck hunting rests in your
own hands. You will provide food and nature will
provide the ducks. There are plenty of water-
fowl in the country, but they are found in great
numbers only where there is sufficient vegeta-
tion for them to feed.

Now is the proper time to plant aquatic foods.
By next Fall the plants will be full grown. Year
after year they will reseed themselves and remain
a permanent attraction in your waters.

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WANT BETTER DUCK HUNTING
NEXT FALL?

Good Hunting is no longer a gift of the gods;
the plain and simple fact is, that you find game
where there is sound and constructive propaga-
tion work being done. Finding food is the funda-
mental concern of all Wild Life and the SECRET
of attracting large numbers of WILD DUCKS
and holding them over the season. Propagate
their Natural Foods by planting NOW. Fall is
Nature’s Planting Season, the time aquatic plants
reseed naturally.

IMPROVED FISHING

These same aquatic plants are also important
as food and cover plants for Game Fish and will
improve the angling. They support food, prevent
cannibalism; clarify, purify and oxygenate the
waters, all important to the fish life.

All of the plants important for Wild Ducks
and Fish when once established in those waters
are permanent, reproducing from year to year.
They are rapid growers and easily planted (most-
ly broadcast).

MORE RECREATION

Be sure of Some Good Shooting Next Fall.
Get away from that enervating heat of the city,
away from the swift pace of the noisy business
world, away from the dull humdrum of the shop.
Enjoy the sport in the great out-of-door, it’s a
worthy investment, better health, more recreation.

There are but three fundamentals that concern
wildlife of every kind, they are: To Find Food,
Protection From Enemies and To Reproduce.
Make your place attractive and you will enjoy
plenty of game and lots of sport.

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Wild Rice

Mallards, Pintails,
Blackducks, Teal, Wid-
geon and Canada Geese
tly hundreds and hun-
dreds of miles to the
Wild Rice Marshes. Dur-
ing Fall they find the
ripened grains in great
abundance, also shelter
and hiding places among
the tall growth. If there
are several Wild Rice
marshes in the vicinity,
great numbers of these
waterfowl will be seen
passing from one marsh
—— to the other. In the north

Wild Rice Head only the freezing water

(Zizania Aquatica) will drive them out. In
the south they will stay on these good feeding
grounds throughout the entire winter.

A field of Wild Rice once established makes a
permanent feeding ground, for wild rice reseeds
itself from year to year.

Best places for planting wild rice are usually
in sloughs, marshy lakes or ponds. In bays or
coves on larger lakes, streams or rivers where it
will be protected from waves and strong currents.
Wild rice does the best in fresh waters from 6
inches to 3 feet deep where there is a mud bottom.

Fall is the time nature has provided for the
planting of wild rice, it will lie dormant until
Spring and then produce a growth of food for the
coming season. Best results will be obtained if
planting is made when ducks are not plentiful on
your waters, plant now or place your order and
we will reserve the seed in an imitation of its nat-
ural state until the Fall flight is over and then
forward same for immediate planting. Our seed
is the best obtainable, giant seed of high germi-
nation; the wild rice which we guarantee will
grow. Forty pounds of seed plants one acre.

WILD RICE SEED 35c PER POUND
Bushel, 30 Ibs. $10.00 less discount

Wild
Celery

(Vallisneria
Spiralis)

Wild Celery
brings the Div-
ing Ducks. Can-
vasbacks, Red-
heads and Blue-
bills darken the
sky over the
wild celery beds.
Wild celery is
fully as impor-
tant as a food
plant for the
diving ducks as
wild rice is for
the marsh ducks.
These divers migrate thousands of miles to find
wild celery and feast upon the tender white shoots
and buds which are produced very abundantly.

Wild Celery is also a very important food and
cover plant for fish, supporting countless num-
bers of animal life which the young fish feed
upon, also providing hiding places where they
may escape the larger fish which feed upon them.

The Wild Celery is a hardy submerged plant
which will grow in almost any fresh waters from
2 to 12 feet in depth and does the best on a mud
bottom. It grows well in slow running streams or
rivers, also in lakes or ponds which are not land
locked. Extreme Spring floods do not affect the
growth of this plant.

Seed of the wild celery should be planted dur-
ing Fall when it is freshly gathered. This seed
being perishable and inclined to sour when stored,
we cannot guarantee delivery for late orders.
Place your order now and we will make ship-
ment direct from the harvest field and send you
seed which we guarantee to grow.

Forty pounds will plant an acre.
WILD CELERY SEED 40c PER POUND

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Sago (Potamogeton Pectinatus)

Sago Pondweed

Good All Around Duck Food

Early in the season Pondweeds bring Mallards
and Teal, later the Canvasbacks and other divers.
In fact, all kinds of wild ducks feed upon the
Pondweeds. These plants furnish a very large
percentage of food for wild ducks, producing more
food than any other family of plants. They are
more hardy than other aquatic plants and will
grow under almost any water conditions.

The most important food plant of the Pondweed
family is the Sago Pondweed, a submerged plant
and perennial. When once established in your
waters insures a permanent feeding ground. Wild
ducks feed on all parts of the Sago including the
small white tubers and tender roots which are
produced in abundance.

Pondweeds are very highly recommended as
food and cover plants for bass, trout and other
game fish. The foliage supports a very large
amount of insect life as well as providing excel-
lent cover for the small fry.

Seed of the Sago Pondweed should be planted
during fall in waters from 2 to 8 feet in depth
on almost any bottom, either fresh, stagnant,
alkali or brackish waters. We guarantee a satis-
factory growth.

Forty pounds will plant an acre.

SAGO PONDWEED See 50c PER POUND

Musk¢grass

A Rapid Growing Duck Food

Widgeon, Gadwalls,
Green and Blue Wing
Teal, Bufflehead, Ruddy
Duck, Mallards, and Blue-
bills all like the Musk-
grass.

A few bushels of musk-
grass (chara) planted
this Fall will produce a
few acres of food for the
ducks next Fall. Ducks
feed upon the foliage as
well as the little tubers
which are produced in
abundance.

Both marsh ducks and
diving ducks will feed
upon this plant. When
once started they will
grow faster than weeds

Muskgrass (Chara) in your garden.
This plant is also a
valuable food and cover plant for fish.

Plants with seed spores can be planted now in
either fresh or alkali waters from 2 to 12 feet in
depth on almost any bottom. The one require-
ment for a successful growth of muskgrass is that
the waters contain some lime, which can be de-
termined by the presence of shell bearing crea-
tures, such as snails, etc., or if there is limestone
in the vicinity.

Four bushels will plant an acre.

MUSKGRASS SEED SPORES $2.25 PER BU.

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Wapato Duck Potato

EXCELLENT DUCK COAXER

The Wapato Duck Po-
tato is a very good all
around Wild Duck Food.
Canada Geese and Swan
are also very fond of this
plants. snes species = of
Wild Ducks which will
feed upon Wapato de-
pends largely upon the
water conditions under
which it grows. If the
waters remain nearly
the same level the year
around, Mallards' and
other shallow water
ducks will feed upon the
tender shoots, tubers
and seeds which it pro-
duces. In places where Duck Potato
there is an overflow or (Sagittaria Latifolia)
the water deepens during fall and winter, Canvas-
backs and other divers will feed upon Wapato.

As a Muskrat food the Wapato is very good.

WHAT AND WHEN TO PLANT
Wapato propagates largely by tubers which
may be planted during fall. Tubers planted this
year will produce fully matured plants the fol-
lowing fall.

WHERE TO PLANT

This plant is very hardy and will grow well in
most any inland waters excepting those which
are very strong of alkali or salts. It does the
best in a fairly rich soil on damp lowlands, mud
flats or in water from 1 inch to 1 foot in depth.

The tubers of the Wapato Duck Potato are very
easily planted, all that is necessary is to step into
your boots or waders and take a quantity of tub-
ers to the place you wish to plant. Then push
each tuber about one or two inches deep into the
bottom soil, planting about three feet apart.
eet complete planting instructions sent with
order.

One thousand tubers plant one acre.
Only $10 per 1,000 Tubers; $1.25 per 100.
A DISCOUNT OFF PRICES LISTED IN’

THIS BOOKLET
Complete Planting Instructions Furnished with Order

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Wampee

A Good Duck Coaxer

Sometimes called Duck
corn and is an excellent
marsh duck food. The
seeds shell off the stalk
in late Fall and will help
hold the Mallards, and
other marsh ducks after
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Ten pounds will plant an acre.

WAMPEE SEED 50c PER POUND

Brownleaf Pondweed

(Potamogeton Natans)

Diving Ducks eat the brittle roots of this im-
portant Wild Duck Food. Shallow water Ducks
feed on its wheat-like seeds at the waters surface.
It is very hardy, grows in from one to six feet of
water on either soft or firm bottom. Easily
planted by mixing the seed with clay and broad-
casting. Plant during fall months, it remains
dormant a short time and the following year pro-
duces a growth. Ten pounds will plant one acre.

Brownleaf Pondweed Seed $1.20 per pound.

Burreed

A food plant for marsh
ducks. The seeds shell off
the large prickly burr
like kernels of corn and
are eagerly eaten by
mallards and other shoal
water ducks; it also pro-
vides wonderful nesting
places for these water-
fowl, and makes excel-
lent blinds for the hunt-
er. Burreed grows on
damp lowlands or in
shallow waters from 1 inch to 1 foot in depth,
on any bottom excepting sand or gravel.

Ten pounds will plant an acre.

BURREED SEED 50c PER POUND
BURREED ROOTS $20.00 PER 1000

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Burreed (Sparganium)

Deep Water Duck Potato

(Sagittaria Rigida)

Another favorite food for all kinds of Wild
Ducks. The diving ducks feed on it during fall
in the deeper waters, Shoal water ducks eat it
if the waters are low during fall. It is a rapid
grower and produces abundantly of food. It has
numerous acorn like tubers on its roots just be-
neath the bottom soils which the Wild Ducks glut
themselves with. One can hardly drive the ducks
away from a good bed of Deep Water Duck Pota-
toes and if they do leave it is only temporary,
they soon return for more.

Plant the tubers in the fall in from one to five
feet of water. A soft mud bottom is best and
will produce a luxuriant growth next year.

In planting deep water duck potatoes just fast-
en the tuber to an eight penny nail with a small
rubber band and drop them in the waters in the
desired place. One thousand tubers plants one
acre.

Deep Water Duck Potato tubers $13.00 per 1000
66 66 (13 “6 ‘6 1.50 per 100

Wild Duck Millet

(Echinochloa crusgalli)

Attracts the shallow water ducks. Ranks almost
as high as Wild Rice as a good duck food in
localities where Wild Rice cannot be grown. Wild
Duck Millet grows to be 4 to 6 feet high and
makes good blinds as well as to produce a large
seed head with an abundance of meaty grain for
the Wild Ducks.

Seed of the Wild Duck Millet may be sown
during fall. The next year it will produce a real
erop of duck food. A hundred pounds will plant
three acres and under favorable conditions has
been known to produce two ton of feed.

Wild Duck Millet grows best on wet low lands
or mud flats. It does very well in the bottom
lands of the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers and
their tributaries, also on old abandoned Rice fields
and such places as can be flooded during the duck
hunting season. Fairly rich soil is best. Seed
can be simply broadcast, 35 pounds to the acre.

Wild Duck Millet Seed $10.00 per 100 pounds.
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Spatterdock

Spatterdock or yellow
waterlily makes a fine
duck attraction when
planted in addition to
other natural foods. Mal-
lards and Blacks are
very fond of the seeds.

Spatterdock produces a
large strong root stalk
which is excellent winter
food for muskrats. This
plant is also an impor- Spatterdock (Nuphar
tant cover plant for fish Advena)
and quite ornamental, producing large oval
shaped leaves and yellow flowers.

Spatterdock seed may be planted now in waters
from 1 to 6 feet in depth on almost any bottom
soil. Six pounds will plant an acre.

SPATTERDOCK SEED $1.50 PER POUND

Lotus

The beautiful American
Lotus (nelumbo lutea) has
acorn-like seeds which are
eaten by Mallards and oth-
er wild ducks. It grows
from 1 to 8 feet above the
surface of the _ shallow
waters, providing shelter
and nesting places for the
ducks.

The flowers of the Amer-

Lotus Waterlily ican Lotus are very beau-
tiful, of a light yellow color often eight inches
across. These are considered very rare although
they are hardy and will grow in any quiet shallow
waters where the bottom soil is fairly rich.

Now is nature’s sowing season and the seeds
will germinate better if they soak in water over
winter. Order now before our limited supply is
exhausted. Fifteen pounds will plant one acre.

LOTUS SEED 40c PER POUND

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Water Cress

The Water Cress is used largely by breeders of
Wild Ducks, who consider it very valuable as a
food plant for their Duck Farms. It grows very
rapidly.

WHEN, WHERE AND HOW TO PLANT

Water Cress may be started by planting seed
during fall. It grows in cool waters, usually
where there is a slight current, like in springs,
brooks, small streams or shallow ponds, waters
1 foot or less in depth. Seed is best planted by
mixing it with mud and dropping bits of the mix-
ture here and there in the waters. 3 pounds of
seed for one Acre.

Water Cress Seed $1.00 per ounce.

White Waterlily

An excellent food and cover plant for fish.
White Waterlilies are very ornamental and will
add to the beauty of your waters.

WHEN AND HOW TO PLANT

Tubers or rootstocks of White Waterlilies are
planted during fall. All Waterlilies do best on
a mud bottom in waters from 1 to 4 feet in depth.

HOW TO PLANT

Tubers are very easily planted. Cut a fairly
straight stick about 5 feet in length which is
between 1 and 2 inches in thickness. Whittle off
one side at end to make a flat surface, then drive
two nails into this flat surface on a slant to make
a sort of crotch. Place a tuber into this crotch
and push it into the mud about 3 or 4 inches.
Plant these about 3 feet apart. These tubers are
usually planted from a boat,

Three hundred tubers will plant one acre.

White Waterlily Tubers $5.00 per 100
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Naias (Bushy Pondweed )

(Naias Flexilis)

A good deep water duck food that grows only
one foot above bottom. Small black seeds are
hidden in the crotch of every leaf joint. Wild
Ducks go after it until they’re just cram full.

Naias grows in one to six feet of water, on
sand, clay or mud bottom. Parts of the plant
with ripened seeds are planted during fall by mix-
ing them with a good sticky clay and broadcast-
ing in the desired place. Three bushel will plant
one acre.

Naias Plants with seed $5.00 per bushel.

Water Shield

Sometimes called Brasenia Schreberi is an im-
portant wild duck food. Only during the last
few years have we been able to grow sufficient
quantities to supply the demand. Wild Ducks
like the tender shoots and hibernating buds of
the Water Shield as well as its seeds. It has a
very strong root system almost indestructible by
carp. Water Shield grows from the far north to
the extreme south. It grows best in waters from
one foot to five feet in depth on a mud bottom.
Fresh waters, lakes or ponds are most suitable
for its growth.

Water Shield has small round leaves, like pond
lilies (about 2 inches across) and make wonder-
ful cover for game fish. Roots are planted during
Fall. One thousand Roots will plant an acre.

Water Shield Roots $ 3.50 per 100
a 25.00 per 1000

Complete planting instructions sent with each
order.

A CALIFORNIA CUSTOMER WRITES

Boyes Hot Springs,
Boyes Springs, Sonoma Co., Calif.
Wisconsin Aquatic Nurseries,
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Oshkosh, Wis.
Gentlemen:
The Wapato Duck Potato tubers which you sent me
sometime ago, are growing nicely.
Will you kindly send me, C. O. D. the enclosed order.
Very truly yours.
(Signed) WM. S. JOHNSON.

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Ducksmeat or Duckweeds

(Lemna Sp.)
(Makes feed this year, plant early)

All kinds of Wild Ducks feed upon the Ducks-
meat. The shallow water feeders make up a
larger percentage of their food of this plant than
the divers, because it grows largely in shallow
waters. It is also important for game fish.

Surface Floating Ducksmeat is a very small
plant (less than % inch in size) which floats in
great clusters upon the surface of the waters.
They may be planted from June through October.
These plants should be transplanted into fresh
waters from 1 to 6 feet in depth over any kind of
bottom, in ponds or quiet sheltered bays or coves.
Ducksmeat Plants are indestructible by Carp.
Just drop a handful of plants into the water
about three feet apart. Five bushel of plants
to the acre.

Ducksmeat Plants, $1.50 per bushel.

Three Square Rush

(Scirpus Americanus)

Of about 150 different rushes belonging to the
Scirpus family, the Three Square Rush is the
most important wild duck food. It produces a
small cluster of meaty seeds that the shallow
water ducks are fond of. It also makes good
blinds fer the hunter.

The Three Square Rush grows well on sandy
soils on lake margins or along streams, also in
marshes of firm, rich soils. Wet soils at the
water’s edge are ideal. Either fresh, alkaline,
or slightly brackish waters are all right for this
plant. Seeds may be planted from August
through September.

Three square Rush Seed, 75 per pound
Three Square Rush Roots, $30.00 per 1,000

Coontail Plants

(Ceratophyllum Demersum)
(Makes feed this year, plant early)

Seeds of the Coontail Plants are eaten by many
species of Wild Ducks, they also feed upon the
foliage. This plant provides both food and cover
for game fish. It’s a rapid growing plant and
makes considerable food in a short time.

Coontail Plants, $1.50 per bushel
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Elodea, Waterweed

(Anacharis Canadensis)

(Makes feed this year, plant early)

The Elodea is of value as a food plant for
marsh ducks. It has a great value as a food and
cover plant for game fish. It is also important
as a water purifier. Like the Coontail is grows
very rapidly. Once growing in those waters it
will be permanent,

Planting of both Coontail and Elodea can be
made from April through October. They grow
best on a mud bottom, in from one to five feet of
water, preferably in small ponds, sloughs or quiet
bays on larger lakes. Just lay a handful of
plants on the waters and push them into the bot-
tom soils with a paddle. Five bushel plants
one acre.

Elodea Plants, $1.50 per bushel

Rumex - Water Dock

A wild duck food for very shallow waters, wet
margins of lakes or streams. Also grows well in
low lands, dry in summer and flooded in duck
seasons.

Water Dock Seed resembles buckwheat seed.
Just start a small bed here and there about your
duck grounds and it will spread the following
year. Seeds are planted from August through
December.

Water Dock Seed, 70c per pound

Salicornia - Glasswort

A real salt water duck food. Due to the glassy
appearance of the stems it is called Glasswort.
The plants are leafless but have numerous joints
of the stems. Glasswort also thrives in strong
alkaline waters. It produces abundantly of seed
which the wild ducks are very fond of. Mallard,
Blackducks and Sprig in particular like it, but
all species of wild ducks eat it.

Salicornia or Glasswort may be planted during
October and November by mixing the plants con-
taining seeds with the soil and sowing in the
desired place. It grows well on any fairly good
soil, places exposed at low tide and covered at
high tide, or very shallow alkaline waters. Three
bushels will plant one acre, an acre will provide
an abundance of duck food and spread to other
suitable nearby places.

This plant has long been known as a good duck
food, but until now has not been on the market
or available for replanting.

Salicornia Plants with Seed $7.00 per bushel

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NECESSITY OF AQUATIC VEGETATION
FOR FISH

Many of the plants which are important food
plants for waterfowl are also important food and
cover plants for fish. Therefore, one will improve
both hunting and fishing by establishing a growth
of aquatic vegetation in their waters.

Plant life takes a very important part in the
purification of waters by taking up the poison-
ous gases and sending forth oxygen into the
waters which is essential to fish life. These
plants also support countless numbers of minute
animal life upon which the young fry feed. They
also provide excellent shelter and hiding places
for younger fish to hide and escape the larger
ones which are of a cannibalistic nature, feeding
upon one another; many more grow to maturity.

Aquatic vegetation assists in the clarification
of the waters and shades the under waters keep-
‘ng them cool which is very helpful and health-
ful to the fish life.

In order that there be a plentiful supply of
fish in any waters it is first necessary to protect
the small fry. They cannot feed upon the larger
insect life or upon one another as the larger fish
do and as a result in waters barren of aquatic
plants, millions and millions of the fry perish.

WE PLAN—PLANT AND MAKE AT-
TRACTIVE YOUR MARSHES—
PONDS OR STREAMS

The best method of procedure in developing an
attractive feeding ground for either waterfowl,
fish, or game is to employ the services of one of
our specialists to come and make a personal ex-
amination of the property and supervise the plant-
ing thereof. Where States or Associations plan
to develop several lakes or properties, Clubs or
private individuals controlling large areas plan

to make plantings to the extent of $200 or more
we recommend this service for best and quickest
results.

Perhaps you now have some natural foods growing in
your waters or about the shores unbeknown to you, this
service will eliminate the danger of duplicating in planting.
It will insure the planting of the proper plants adapted to
those particular water or soil conditions. Experimental
planting on a large scale is often very costly. Often one
experienced in planting these materials can make the same
quantity cover twice the area and with better results than
the inexperienced. Proper planting and in the correct places
is very important; it is the hinge upon which good re-
sults hang.

By having this service you will learn what grows there,
its value, what we recommend planting, quantity, price and
where as well as when to plant. During Fall we are able
to make investigations of properties and waters and super-
vise the planting work in one trip by telegraphing for seeds
after survey is completed and awaiting their express arrival.
We often have several such contracts in a community and
work from one preserve to another.

Our charge for this service is based upon the distance
from Oshkosh. When we are able to obtain several contracts
in one state it enables us to quote a special low price,
making this service very inexpensive. Write us for quota-
tion on this service.

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BEFORE PLANTING

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LISTED BELOW ARE THE AQUATIC PLANTS AND
APPROXIMATE PERCENTAGE OF EACH EATEN BY
THE FOUR WELL KNOWN SPECIES OF WILD DUCKS.

10% of Food Animal Life

90%
22%

14%

9%
9%

6%

6%
5%
4%
4%

3%
4%

3%
1%

8%
92%

88%
18%

8%
6%

6%
5%

5%

1%
1%
1%
3%

MALLARD

of Food Vegetation

Sedges
Rushes
Burreed
Chufa
Wampee
Grasses
Wild Rice
Wild Millet
Smartweeds
Duck Wheat
Pondweeds
Sago Pond Plant
Redhead Grass
Brownleaf
Eel Grass
Widgeon Grass
Duckweeds
Duck Meat
Coontail
Wild Celery
Hackberries
Wapato & Delta
Duck Potatoes
Acorns
Waterlily
Banana Waterlily
Yellow =
American Lotus
Water Milfoil
Muskgrass

CANVASBACK
of Food Animal Life
of Food Vegetation

Wild Celery
Pondweeds
Sago Pond Plant
Naias
Redhead Grass
Brownleaf
Eel Grass
Widgeon Grass
Wapato & Delta
Duck Potato
Waterlily
Banana Waterlily
Yellow 4
American Lotus
Muskgrass
Grasses
Wild Rice
Wild Millet
Sedges
Cyperus
Rushes
Wampee
Coontail
Water Milfoil
Duckweeds
Unidentified &
Miscell.

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24%
76%

33 Yo

11%

9%

6%
5%

2%
4%

3%
1%
2%

14%
86%

30%
17%

9%
5%

5%
6%

6%

4%

1%
1%
2%

BLACK DUCK
of Food Animal Life
of Food Vegetation

Pondweeds
Sago Pond Plant
Naias
Redhead Grass
Brownleaf
Eel Grass
Widgeon Grass
Grasses
Wild Rice
Wild Millet
Sedges
Bulrush
Burreed
Cyperus
Wampee
Smartweeds
Duck Wheat
Waterlily
Banana Waterlily
Yellow ”
Wokas
American Lotus
Coontail
Wapato & Delta
Duck Potato
Wild Celery
Muskgrass
Miscellaneous

REDHEAD
of Food Animal Life
of Food Vegetation

Wild Celery
Pondweeds
Sago Pond Plant
Naias
Redhead Grass
Brownleaf
Eel Grass
Widgeon Grass
Wapato & Delta
Duck Potato
Duckweeds
Muskgrass
Grasses
Wild Rice
Wild Millet
Sedges
Rushes
Burreed
Wampee
Waterlily
Banana Waterlily
Yellow of
American Lotus
Water Milfoil
Coontail
Unidentified &
Miscell.

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DUCKS MUST EAT

Did the wild ducks and geese darken the sky
over your local waters or at the preserve last
fall? If not, there is some reason, undoubtedly
the very reason is that there is not enough nat-
ural food growing there to attract them.

Wild ducks cannot live upon waters without
food and therefore migrate on to the places where
they find plenty of the kinds of food they like.
In waters where their natural food does not
grow now, it can very easily be planted and the
waters made attractive to the wild waterfowl.

There are important food plants for these wild
waterfowl which will grow under almost every
water condition that exists. A few of the most
important and most hardy of these are described
in this booklet.

There are undoubtedly several food plants
adapted to your water conditions and it will be
advantageous to have a variety growing in your
waters. Different kinds of waterfowl are fond
of different kinds of food. Different plants pro-
duce food in various forms at different times
throughout the season. Therefore, a variety of
foods attract a larger number of ducks and holds
them for a longer interval. As a result you will
have more ducks and receive better hunting
throughout the entire season.

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GAME FOOD NURSERIES

P.O. BOX.371
OSHKOSH, WISCONSIN, U,S,A.

DATE 1941

EXPRESS PARCEL POST
PLEASE SHIP ON (DATE)

QUANTITY MATERIAL PRICE

LB. GIANT WILD RICE SEED

LB. WILD CELERY SEED

LB. SAGO PONDWEED SEED

LB. WAMPEE SEED

LB: BURREED SEED

EB. LOTUS, SEED

BUSHELS MUSKGRASS SEED SPORES
WAPATO DUCK POTATO TUBERS
DEEP WATER DUCK POTATO TUBERS

BROWNLEAF PONDWEED SEED

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WILD DUCK MILLET SEED

WHITE WATERLILY TUBERS

NAIAS PLANTS WITH SEED

WATER SHIELD ROOTS

BU. COONTAIL PLANTS

ETE

BU. ELODEA PLANTS

BU. DUCKSMEAT PLANTS

TOTAL

DISCOUNT

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AMOUNT OF ORDER $

INCLOSE PYMT. $ c.0.D. $

ORDER BY

SIGN NAME HERE

ADDRESS

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GUARANTEE

We guarantee our seeds to grow and produce satisfactory
results. If a complete planting or any portion fails to
produce what you consider a satisfactory growth after al-
lowing a sufficient time to grow and mature, we will agree
to furnish an equal quantity to that which fails at one-half
the list price.

You are the judge as to whether or not ycur planting
has proven a success. If dissatisfied with the results, tell
us about it and we will replace the order at half-price,
or an equal value of any other planting materials you
wish to select from our list at one-half list price.

Failures with good germinating seeds such as we supply
are few and far between. Marsh and water plants are
very hardy and sure to grow.

Complete Planting Instructions Sent with Each Order.

TERMS

Prices listed herein effective September Ist, 1941, this
list cancels all previous lists and quotations, These prices
are F. O. B. Oshkosh or other shipping points unless other-
wise stated and subject to changes without notice.

2% additional discount if payment accompanies order.

We urge you to order early and be sure of your supply.
Cash or satisfactory reference with order, if purchaser has
no credit established with us. Shipments will be sent C.
O. D. if so desired.

Accounts not paid when due are subject to sight draft.

These aquatic seeds are perishable and must reach their
destination in the shortest possible time and should be
shipped by express. If you wish shipment by Parcel Post
or Prepaid Express please send sufficient money to cover
same otherwise we will ship charges collect.

For reference write New American Bank, Oshkosh, Wis.;
H. P. Cottingham, Dept. of Conservation, Indianapolis, Ind. ;
any outdoor sportsmen’s magazine such as Field and Stream,
Outdoor Life, Sports Afield, ete.

GAME FOOD NURSERIES

P.O. BOX 371
OSHKOSH, WISCONSIN. U.S.A.

| GRAIN BAITING HAS BEEN PROHIBITED BY
FEDERAL REGULATIONS—SMART SPORTSMEN
ARE PLANTING NATURAL DUCK FOODS NOW.

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