RAISING DUCKS. 22% 
were landed in New York on the 13th of March, 1873. 
Leaving three ducks and two drakes, consigned to 
parties in New York, to be sent to Mr. McGrath’s 
family (who never received them, as they were killed and 
eaten in the city), Mr. P. took the three remaining 
ducks and drake to his home at Wequetequoc, in Ston- 
ington, Conn. They soon recovered from the effects of 
their long voyage, and commenced laying the latter part 
of March, and continued to lay until the last of July. 
They are very prolific, the three ducks laying about 325 
eggs. 
The ducks are white, with a yellowish tinge to the 
under part of the feathers; their wings area little less 
than medium length, as compared with other varieties ; 
they make as little effort to fly as the large Asiatic fowls, 
and they can be as easily kept in enclosures. Their 
beaks are yellow ; necks long ; legs shortand red. When 
the eggs are hatched under hens, the ducklings come 
out of the shell much stronger if the eggs are dampened 
every day (after the first fifteen days) in water a little 
above blood heat and replaced under the hen. 
The ducks are very large, and uniform in size, weigh- 
ing at four months old about twelve pounds to the pair. 
They appear to be very hardy, not minding severe 
weather. Water to drink seems to be all they require 
to bring them to perfect development. 
Iwas more successful in rearing them with only a 
dish filled to the depth of one inch with water, than 
were those who had the advantages of a pond and run- 
ning stream. 
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AYUESBURY DUCKS. 
White occurring without intermixture of other colot 
in the hair or feathers of animals and fowls is evidence 
of change effected by domestication. This color, or lack 
