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can not be fenced in like the Pekins, Rouens, and Cayugas. 

 Muscovy drakes weigh from ten to eleven pounds ; ducks from 

 five to seven. 



COLORED MUSCOVY DRAKE. 



A flock of ducks around the door-yard or the barn-yard is 

 an unmitigated nuisance, and for that reason a piece of land 

 around the stream or pond 

 should be set apart for their 

 use, and they should be con- 

 fined to its limits. Where 

 the fence crosses a stream, 

 put in water gates. It is said 

 that ducks will endure the 

 severe weather of our coldest 

 winters without shelter, but 

 it certainly is not good econ- 

 omy to keep them that way, 

 and the fact that they always 

 seek shelter during driving 

 storms of sleet and snow 

 and in extreme cold weather COLORED MUSCOVY DUCK. 



convinces me that they need it. Upon our farm there is a long, 

 low building a few rods from the water, and I find that in winter 



