Show waterfowl killed by alkali the tile strange malady chic i has been killing wild docks by tilou sands in the marshes around salt lako lake cach year beems u to be caused by an lin alkaline taline al poison u water is believed to bo be tho tile only remedy yet din discovered As the flats around the lake dry after salts and ankelis crystallize cryst alize on the surface when light rains rains I 1 form pools or when a steady v ind blows the water across the dry barro tiR the soluble salts are tak n up lip by tho the water duck and other waterfowl are eager to feed on the newly flooded lands and imbibing salts and alkalis arc are poisoned and die |