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Title: How we make ducks pay ... an illustrated guide to the profitable breeding of our modern Pekin all-white mammoth ducklings; plain and thorough lessons for beginners and others everywhere who write for the details and secrets of our waterless method..
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: American Pekin Duck Company, Boston
Subjects: Ducks
Publisher: Boston, Mass., American Pekin duck company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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makethe most sterile fields productive enough for the greenstufi-^ and vegetables that may be grown. Our ducks have web feet but we have bred out of themthe desire to swim and bathe. The advantages of noswimming water were made manifest to us quickly. Weknow the methods and flocks of a few duck breeders whouse water and we never could find that the ducks werebetter in any way. Perhaps you have a brook or pond. A brook ishandy, perhaps, in that it will reduce the work of water-ing. But the ducks will not get any larger or fatterbecause of it. They will drink from a brook or pond,thereby lessening the work of their caretaker. Anybody raising ducks with a pond on his place willfind that some ducks will lay eggs in the water. Unlessthe water is shallow and the eggs easily reached, this willbe a source of annoyance and loss. As ducks lay at night,or early in the morning, this trouble can be overcome byshutting the birds up at night and not letting them intothe water until about 9 a. m. 13
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DUCKS FOR BUSINESS If you have a spring or brook with a fall so that watercan be diverted and made to run through the duck houseor houses, tl at may be worth trying. Most beginners without instruction think that ducksmust have swimming water to thrive and, lacking a pondor brook, will dig a rainhole without inlet or outlet. Thisquickly gets muddy and shmy and becomes an abomina-tion, a menace to both ducks and owner. We have heard of duck raisers on the coast of Dela-ware, who iiav€ had trouble in the following way: Thetides would force the stagnant marsh water back into theduck ranges and when the ducks got into this brackishwater it was bad for them. Some actually would bepoisoned and die. Look out for this stagnant, foul-smelling marsh water if you breed ducks on the sea-coast. The rice-fields of the South are ideal for ducks. Theywill pick up plenty of free nourishment there. Ducksare good also to go over harvest fields to pick up the left-behind grain. This is a suggestion for

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