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Show COLD AND RAIN ARE AIDING SICK DUCK3 With Continued Favorable Weather Shooting Season Will Soon Open. Salt Lake. Oct. ?,. The rain of Saturday Sat-urday night and the succeeding cold weather came as providential succor to thousands of disease-stricken duck along the Jordan river. At the month of the Jordan river where the disease was particularly prevalent the conditions condi-tions were touch Improved Sunday. The rain had ' washed out the nesting nest-ing grounds and Improved the feed. There was running water In the canals can-als and stream and the ducks seemed to have a new leaso of life. Several members of the New State C,m club visited the lodge on Sunday Sun-day and were overjoyed at the improved improv-ed conditions. They ventured the assertion as-sertion that with continued "duck weather" the disease would practically be wiped out within two weeks and that the shooting season would open then. Physicians have given their opinion that cold weather and rain would do much to eradicate tho dis-eac? dis-eac? with which the ducks are afflicted. |