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Title: The Oölogist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Lattin, Frank H
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: Albion, N.Y. : Frank H. Lattin
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o he done? Protection will not do it; it will help;it will pcstpone the inevitable, but theinevitable will come; that inevitablewhen there is no wild fowl, unlessscmethirg is done; something besideprotection. Game protection as nowpracticed is mere cr less of a farce.To preserve a duck or a goose or anyother bird frr six months in orderthat you may kill it at the end of thesix months, does not tend to perman-ently increase the supply. Yet it is farbetter than nothing. The longer theultimate destruction of our wild fowlis postponed, the better it will be for us. Realizing this fact, the writer formany years has been experimentingin the domestication of our nativewild fowl, both ducks and geese. Ithas now got to where it is a fad;particularly in the eastern part of thecoimtry where the wild fowl are nowall but extinct, for the wealthier to layout their places with landscape gard-eners, build pools and ponds, minaturelakes and brooks, and stock them withNorth American ducks and geese for
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THE OOLOGIST 27 l)urely oniimental purposes. Ourtheory of it is that if we can domesti-cate the various North American wildfowl, they will last forever; they willbecome a source of national wealthand of added meat supply; they willbe ornamental and will be preservedfrom utter extinction. Thinking perhaps some of our ex-periments along this line would be ofinterest, we have given over this num-ber of THE OOLOGIST largely to theproposition of North American WildFowl in confinement. In order to keep such birds in con-finement, it is proper and in someplaces necessary to get the consent ofthe local game warden. Then pre-pare a place where there is plenty ofshade and plenty of room and somewater. The small quantity of waterwith which a duck or goose can getalong is suri)rising, and nearly allspecies, with proper surroundings willnest in confinement. In the winter it is necessary, when-ever the mercury goes below zero, tokeep your birds dry; give them nothingbut drinking water, and do not a

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