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Show WILD DUCKS CLEAN IRRIGATION DITCHES RICH FIELD, Vtah. Jan. 2S A very Interesting Inter-esting sight la to be seen every day from the home of J. M. Rolltho on his farm a couple cou-ple of mliea east of town. Mr. Boiltho has a number of flowing wells on his farms. The water from these does not freese for several hundred feet from the or I nee. This warm water has had the effect of causing a dense growth of water grasa and cress, which, during dur-ing the past summer became quite a nuisance nuis-ance In clogging p the ditches. Rut this winter a bunch of wild ducks have taken possession pos-session of the ditches and already have them nearly all as clean of vegetable subatanca as could have been dona with a shovel. Mr. Boiltho has not permitted tha ducks to be molested during the winter aad they hare become quite tarns. They are now to be aeen within a couple of hundred feet of his barn. Industriously "working" tha ditches. |