Show Banana Diet let for or Ducks Supplied by Odd Water Plants ants Grinnell Iowa Duck Duck bananas bananas bananas ba ba- ba- ba nanas considered good food for water vater fowl do not grow on banana banana ba ba- ba- ba nana trees or anything like them ahem They are the product of two kinds of water plants one onea a water lily and one a gentian explains Prof H. H S. S Conard Canard of Grinnell college for many years a specialist on the water lilies The duck bananas are really little clumps of short thick roots that look for all the world like pigmy pigmy pigmy pig pig- my hands of bananas They are rich with stored stared food materials and ducks are believed to be very fond of them So widely Is this doctrine accepted accept accept- ed that persons interested in rebuilding rebuilding rebuilding re re- re- re building our wild fowl population have been buying and planting them by the bushel It is commonly stated that duck bananas are borne bome on the roots of only one kind of plant the Mexican water lily which is hence called the Pro Pro-fessor banana water lily However Professor Professor Pro Pro- fessor Conard Canard has shown there are two distinct kinds The second kind is borne not by bya a water lily but by a quite unrelated ed plant known as floating heart from the shape of its leaves |