WHEN AND WHERE TO PROCURE STOCK 



BIRDS AND EGGS— ENGLISH AND 



AMERICAN GAME FARMS 



A WILD DUCK farm or preserve can be started by 

 *^ purchasing eggs only and hatching them under 

 barnyard hens or in incubators; but it is more interest- 

 ing to start with ducks, and when it is proposed to rear 

 large numbers the first season both eggs and ducks 

 should be purchased. 



Very quickly after the discovery was made in Eng- 

 land that wild ducks could be reared and controlled on 

 preserves a number of game farms were started, which 

 now furnish hundreds of thousands of ducks and eggs 

 to the sportsmen every year. 



Mr. Bonnett, who at my suggestion wrote a series of 

 articles on "English Game Preserving" for The Amateur 

 Sportsman, says : "Wild duck shooting became suf- 

 ficiently popular in England to encourage the game 

 farmer to give it his attention, and now there is hardly 

 a game farm in the Kingdom that does not pay some 

 attention to the breeding of wild ducks, both for eggs 

 and for young ducks to be supplied for shooting. A 

 hundred, or even fifty years ago, there would probably 



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