Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 305, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1918 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

• X ‘Burbanked” Type, in Louisiana, Will Mot Migrate, as > Customary With the Species. £ Stanley Clisby Arthur, ornithologist of the conservation commission of Louisiana, is authority for the statement that the state “Burbanked” the wild duck, the cr«s of which “set,” and they produced a duck that win remain In the state the year round. Louisiana is visited by the greenhead mallard, which leaves la the spring for the North. Also by another species known as the summer mallard, or Florida duck, which spends its MMper tn Louisiana and winters in Mexico and Central America. lyleaves Louisiana on the approach of cold weather. The experiment of crossing the 1 greenhead mallard, the winter visitor, with the summer mallard, or Florida duck, the summmer visitor, was conducted by M. L. Alexander, conservation commissioner, and Edward A Mo Tlhpnny at Avery Island, a state pre-' serve. Species of the two ducks were trapped, mated and the eggs proved, fertile. The experiment proved a success.- The “Burbanked” <ucks have been termed the “Louisiana mallard.” The “Louisiana mallard” has produced its own young, and Mr. Arthur says the cross has “set.” Hundreds of these. “Louisiana mallards” were released -Qn Marsh Island, a wild life sanctuary, so that They might perpetuate themselves.