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must be divisions for the dog to pass over, and also for the 

 man to appear at when driving the fowl. 



The water forming the decoy should be surrounded with 

 a fence of reeds three or four feet high to prevent the 

 decoy Ducks from getting out of it. About Midsummer is 

 the time to put them into the water, and commence 

 training them, which is a very important part in the art of 

 decoying ; they should be young birds and made very 

 tame, taught to come to any pipe from all parts of the 

 water whenever they are whistled, and to prevent them 

 flying they should be pinioned. 



In working a decoy it is best to go to that pipe at 

 which the wind blows from the tunnel net to the bend of 

 the pipe ; by doing so all scent of the person at work is 

 carried away from the fowl in the pipe, and as all wild- 

 fowl by choice rise head to wind, there are generally more 



