Show DUCKS LIKELY UKEl Y TO 10 PERISH of or Them Are Arc re Weakened by bT Lack of or Water ater anti and Arc rc Huddled la In Pool Special to The Ephraim June 3 Thousands of or ducks dycks in the tho swamps west of ot this city olt are In danger of o perishing this sum summer summer summer mer for tor want of ot water Dr Otto Niel Nielsen Nielsen sen n the game commissioner male a trip rip to the swamp a few days ago ag and found hundreds of o ducks huddled to jo together t gether in pools poole Some Som were already trying to struggle le through the tall taU grass gra to find rind larger pools of ot water and this Is taken takeR as II an indication of what will Happen happeR if It water does do not become more plentiful Dr Nielson says that if I the water supply In the swamps keeps diminish ID lag ng during the next ten days das as It has ha during the lost last few weeks many of or the young oung ducks will perish After that It will wilt Be only a matter of a few days until all aU the young birds that have been e n hatched this thin season n will die from front want of water They are not yet ot old enough to wander through the grass to find deeper pools and Indi are that even the river will soon be so low Jow that the older ducks will leave the region |