Show NEW FOOD FOH WILD FOWL an experiment with chines plant on columbia the carp having played havoc with the kapatoes wapato es in the sloughs and ponds on island on which the ducks geese and swan used to feed mr reeder of reeders landing lias secured a lot of chinese kapatoes wapato es which he will plant as an experiment and if they do well will try to introduce them in the lakes etc says ahe portland oregonians oregonian Ore gonian the chinese here consume a great many kapatoes wapato es and also bring over from china many which are of a different species being larger and rounder the only improvement they will be on the native kind is that they are too large for a carp to swallow while the ducks etc can perhaps bite them in pieces and swallow them several efforts have been made to introduce plants on the island which might attract the 1 and take the place of the kapatoes wapato es and widgeon weed but all such attempts have failures wild rice by the sack has been brought from wisconsin and bowed sowed here the seeds of alie wild celery which gives flavor to the can vas backs of the potomac and the chesapeake have been sown and the seeds of the bokus on which bucka fatten at the Klamath lakes have been planted but none of them flourished the june rise of the columbia ia a very different thing from what any of these plants have been accustomed to and covers them with several feet of water just at the time when they should be making their growth if something cannot be done to preserve the native plants on which the ducks geese and swan feed the next generation will have no wildfowl on the sauvies island |