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Show two months earlier than usual, and, in their migration from tho lakes of Canada, the birds have been afflicted by dust irritation aggravated aggra-vated by bad water. Mr. Anderson says a dusty chicken yard will produce tho same effect on domestic fowls, but by sprinkling the ground the cause is I removed, proving that the affliction is not a contagious disease, but a dust irritation. The flight of ducks is quite a study. Ninety per cent of the! birds on the grounds of the clubs along Bear River, where millions of birds feed at certain times of the year, are migratory. That is Mr. Anderson's estimate and he is a close observer. He sayB that now at night the noise of the ducks in flight south across the Ogdcn-Lucin Ogdcn-Lucin outoff, between Little Mountain and Promontory, is constant and loud enough to prevent a nervous person sleeping. The migration to Utah from Canada and the lakes of Montana commenced as early as July this year and now the ducks are leaving their feeding grounds near here two months earlier than usual and are flying to the Gulf states, where they winter. This is accounted for by the dry season and, perhaps, by the premonition of an early and hard winter. The ducks fly from 75 to 112 milos an hour and at that high rate of speed they can make the flight from the Bear River lakes and swamps to the winter feeding grounds in Texas between sunset and dawn a speed an aviator might hope to attain, but which seems to be denied him for years to come. This migration of countless millions of ducks from the far north to the Gulf coast and interior timber belts of Texas and the swamps of Florida, with the Bear River hunting grounds the middle feeding place, has made those grounds the sportsman's paradise, exoept in seasons of unusual adverse climatic conditions, and a prominent ' nimrod said today that, of his knowledge, there are no duck grounds in the world to compare with those to the west and north of Ogden. THE FLIGHT OF THE DUCKS. W. H. Anderson, who is an authority on the. habits of wild game, pays the disease which has caused the death of many ducks on the lakes and ponds of Utah may be traced to the exceptionally dry season, sea-son, which has reduced the flow of water in all the streams of the intermountain country and has filled the air with fine particles of dust. The dry weather has forced the ducks to make their flight |