ABSTRACT
SMALL LIFE boo tube leading through the screen. Decoy ducks are trained to approach for food when the feed box is tapped. As the parade of decoy ducks from the lake enters a canal, wild ducks follow, and when a canal is sufficiently full of ducks, hunters receive a signal from the decoyman and take their places in rows on both banks behind the screen. A dam is then closed, separating the canal from the lake with enough noise to frighten the birds in the canal. They fly in the only direction available, which carries them past the hunters who net them. The same process is then repeated at the next canal. Sometimes fifty thousand migrating ducks, such as teal, mallards and pintails, will rest on one of these lakes, so there is no difficulty in luring enough into the canals for a handsome catch. Ducks are cooked on the spot and served to the hunters in a dish like a glorified sukiJaki. Sometimes each hunter is presented with a brace of ducks in a beautiful woven basket at the end of the day.
