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  The Runner--The Fawn and White Runner--The White Runner--The Penciled Runner--Preparing Ducks for the Show


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id: 15280
title: Lulu, Alice and Jimmie Wibblewobble
author: Garis, Howard Roger
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  "Maybe," spoke Lulu, and just then Alice came swimming along, looking just "A man duck cannot get bonnets for Alice and Lulu," declared Mrs. Wibblewobble. before the little boy duck called to Lulu and Alice. "Let''s sing a funny little song for Billie." So Jimmie, Alice and Lulu Then she told Alice and Jimmie about the fairy prince she was going to with water, that when Lulu asked her parents if she and Jimmie and Alice away as Alice, Lulu and Jimmie Wibblewobble were playing about on the edge Lulu and Alice and Jimmie doing, but a very funny thing happened. Aunt Lettie, the nice old lady goat, wanted Lulu and Alice and Jimmie to So Lulu and Alice and Jimmie went out to play, but all the while they were Lulu and Alice and Jimmie Wibblewobble were looking out of the window of


id: 28686
title: Wild Ducks: How to Rear and Shoot Them
author: Oates, W. Coape
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  eggs will be obtained if the ducks have a large piece of water at their Ducks love to nest in stacks, and I have known a pinioned bird work her egg; and we had almost as good results from birds nesting in stacks. Eggs left in the nest will, of course, not require turning, as the duck As time goes on you must leave more eggs in the nest, as the birds will Should a duck forsake its nest, place the eggs under a good hen as available, the best plan is to let the ducks sit on the eggs until they Ducks'' eggs take from twenty-four to twenty-nine days to hatch as a The first food given should be a little fine wild duck meal, scalded in I say _young_ birds, as I think it will be admitted that wild duck, if


id: 18884
title: Ducks at a Distance: A Waterfowl Identification Guide
author: Hines, Bob
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  species can be taken legally, hunters who know their ducks on the wing Differences in size, shape, plumage patterns and colors, wing beat, Puddle ducks are typically birds of fresh, shallow marshes and rivers The mallard is our most common duck, found in all flyways. Small, compact flocks fly swiftly, usually in a direct line. Drakes whistle and _kack-kack_; hens _quack_ like a mallard, but softer. Their small size and twisting turning flight gives the illusion of great The small, compact flocks commonly fly low over the marshes, and Flight is swift and direct; flocks are usually small. Flight is swift, usually in small flocks. Most flocks in feeding areas are small--5 or 6 birds, Like all scoters, these birds move along our coasts in loose flocks, Protected species are sometimes more numerous than ducks or geese. flyway boundaries because some species nest and winter in areas that do


id: 22055
title: Dame Duck''s First Lecture on Education
author: Unknown
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  DAME DUCK''S Old Mother Duck has hatched a brood Of ducklings, small and callow: Their little wings are short, their down The old duck made her nest, "That''s very rude," said old Dame Duck, "''Tis close," said Dame Duck, shoving out A well-bred duck should waddle so, "Yes," said the little ones, and then "Yes," said the ducklings, waddling on: "That''s better," said their mother; "But well-bred ducks walk in a row. "Yes," said the little ducks again, "Now to the pond," said old Dame Duck-"Let me swim first," said old Dame Duck, As well-bred ducks should do. That, from that day, the other fowls NEW PICTURE BOOKS FOR LITTLE CHILDREN. full-page illustrations, elegantly printed in colors. Dame Duck''s First Lecture. Jack and Jill. Chattering Jack. Well printed, with four elegant illustrations Showy pictorial covers, printed in colors. Standard stories, with full-page showy illustrations. Pictorial covers, printed in colors.


id: 14814
title: The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck
author: Potter, Beatrix
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  THE TALE OF JEMIMA PUDDLE-DUCK --Listen to the story of Jemima Puddle-duck, who was annoyed because the Jemima Puddle-duck. Jemima Puddle-duck became quite desperate. "Quack?" said Jemima Puddle-duck, with her head and her bonnet on one indeed!" said the gentleman with sandy whiskers, looking Jemima Puddle-duck was rather surprised to find such a vast quantity of When she came out, the sandy whiskered gentleman was sitting on a log Jemima Puddle-duck came every afternoon; she laid nine eggs in the nest. Where do you go every afternoon by yourself, Jemima Puddle-duck?" Jemima Puddle-duck went up the cart-road for the last time, on a sunny Jemima Puddle-duck had never heard him speak like Presently Kep opened the door of the shed, and let out Jemima Puddle-duck. Jemima Puddle-duck was escorted home in tears on account of those eggs. Jemima Puddle-duck said that it was because of her nerves; but she had


id: 26650
title: The Ducks and Frogs, a Tale of the Bogs.
author: Fire-Fly, Fanny
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  THE DUCKS AND THE FROGS THE DUCKS AND THE FROGS THE DUCKS AND THE FROGS When cheerful Summer, bright and gay, Each fair young flower was holding up Filled with bright dew drops, every one; For cause of woe in that sweet brook; A member of this grave marsh meeting. At that sweet brook, to hear them sing; To murder happy, harmless Frogs. Then said, "I think you will allow The Ducks, while listening to this tale, A Frog quite pert, for one so young; And then think twice before you speak! My lady Duck and I ''tis plain, But Duck and I just ran away; And as we came to bathe this morn, And hearing its cool waters splashing, The Ducks then smoothed each ruffled feather, They gave their friends three parting cheers! They stopped; each folded his green dress Take warning from that Frog so young, [Illustration: BOSTON JOSEPH.


id: 38467
title: Natural and Artificial Duck Culture
author: Rankin, James
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  essential to secure fertility in duck eggs, but it is a great mistake. the birds, both old and young, and that eggs would not be fertile unless How to Feed Breeding Ducks for Eggs. chick or duck, and there is no animal heat in the egg, the temperature test duck eggs at the end of the third day. day for both duck''s and hen''s eggs. duck-culture have little idea how fast these birds will grow; how soon in the egg from which the little bird comes out in no shape to live; or QUESTION 12.--How many eggs will a Pekin duck lay in a season? ANSWER.--Pekin duck eggs sell readily in market, as they are much larger upon how the old birds are fed; how the eggs are incubated, and the QUESTION 45.--How many duck eggs should be placed under one hen? QUESTION 46.--How long does it require to incubate duck eggs?


id: 38995
title: The Sheep and Lamb
author: Miller, Thomas
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  the pet lamb, round the neck of which the little boy has placed his the Common to ask how Johnny''s father is, and to look at his pet lamb. his two sheep and Johnny''s pet lamb to pay the rent of his cottage. "I''ll tell you what I''ll do, Johnny," said the little boy who stood father first, Master Charley, before you gave Johnny one of your lambs?" Charley and Polly, with his little brother sitting in her lap, came pet lamb; and, as she said to Charley, "I shan''t feel that it''s quite The two sheep and the little lamb, as they were driven along the pretty father, I gave Johnny Giles one of my lambs to-day to sell to the we kept it in the little croft, and drove Charley''s lamb out instead, little Charley, and that but for the words she had spoken the pet lamb


id: 33029
title: Ducks and Geese
author: Slocum, Rob R. (Rob Roy)
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  of Feed to Produce a Pound of Market Duck--Water for Breeders--Housing--Feeding--Water--Yards--Care of Eggs Breeding Stock--Time of Laying--Housing--Yards--Feeding great extent to keep some one of the egg producing breeds of ducks such course is the breed which is kept wherever the production of duck eggs duck lays eggs which range in color from white to green. the Call ducks run from white to green while the eggs of the Black East fertility runs good, the eggs hatch well, and the little ducks are hardy the brooder houses, one man would feed the yard ducks and the fattening _Feeding the Breeders._ Breeding ducks are fed twice a day, in the incubator capacity of from 20 to 25 eggs per head of breeding ducks. _Feeding._ On many farms the breeding flock of ducks is fed on the same that while ducks are good egg producers during the laying and breeding


id: 62685
title: Ducks and Geese: Standard Breeds and Management
author: Howard, George E. (George Ellsworth)
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  Colored and White Muscovy ducks (illustrated) 12 [Illustration: Fig. 1.--White Pekin duck.] [Illustration: Fig. 2.--Group of White Pekin ducks.] Raisers recommend for raising exhibition birds one drake to two ducks, raisers who raise large numbers for market breed them as they do =Description.=--The Rouen duck is a fine market bird, but does not [Illustration: Fig. 4.--Trio of Colored Rouen ducks.] dark ashy-brown color; the outer edge in old birds is edged with white; [Illustration: Fig. 5.--Pair of Black Cayuga ducks.] The head of the black East Indian duck is short and small; eyes dark 16 is shown a duck house with water runs, and also the arrangement [Illustration: Fig. 14.--House for breeding ducks.] [Illustration: Fig. 14.--House for breeding ducks.] [Illustration: Fig. 15.--House for breeding and growing ducks.] [Illustration: Fig. 16.--House for breeding ducks, showing water runs.] [Illustration: Fig. 21.--House for growing Ducks.] [Illustration: Fig. 23.--Three-pen house for growing ducks.] [Illustration: Fig. 23.--Three-pen house for growing ducks.]


