Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-01-29 | Page 13 | Ducks Do Gold Mining in Kansas

Ducks Do Gold Mining in Kansas LIBERAL Kan Jan 2 IC By U. U P. P Gold p.-Gold Gold mining on his duck ranch on Ten-Mile Ten creek with the fowls gathering the yellow dust and nuggets nuggets nuggets nug nug- gets from the bottom of th the stream in sufficient quantities to make him wealthy was the experience of J. J G. G Bryson poultry fancier and pros pros- Bryson originally ran a duck ranch selling thousands of 01 fowls fowls- annually Then one day he re re an order for some dress dressed d birds and in the dressing process discovered the gold The ducks while wading and swimming about th creek and scooping the bottoms for mussels mussel would fill their bills bilIs with mud nud ud which contained a a. sprinkling of the fhe gold dust The gold would stick to their I II I 5 I r crops and Intestines Bf's Bryson ri now does all his feeding in the creek and his poultry is all dressed before itis it itis itis f I is sold i Ire He figures It takes a duck cluck a year to fill his crop and intestines with enough of ot the gold dust to be mar mar- I lie He tripled has his annual production pro pro- raising aIsing the birds in large flocks with as rapid a a. turnover as I possible and changing the feeding I II I rounds grounds as often as ris practicable I