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Show Duck With Leg Band. If you kill or capture a wild duck wearing an aluminum leg band you are requested to send this band at once to the bureau of biological survey, de-; partment of agriculture'" Washington,' and thereby assist the department in experiments it is making. These bands, bearing a number and other information, have been attached to hundreds of wild ducks which have been cured of a sickness prevalent around Great Salt lake. The duek3 have died by the thousand. If the hunter will state the date, place and circumstance under which the bird was taken the survey can determine de-termine the longevity of the ducks and the migration routes of various species. spe-cies. The government is anxious to know If its patients have completely recovered recov-ered after treatment. 1 |