JAMES RANKIN, The Author 



America's Recognized Leadin g Authority for a Generation 

 on Duck C ulture. 



INTRODUCTION. 



Our original motive in publishing this little book, was 

 one of self-defense, to relieve ourselves, in a measure, of a 

 correspondence which was becoming much too large for the 

 time at our disposal. After reading from fifty to one hundred 

 letters per day, from people, asking all manner of questions 

 concerning the hatching, growing and marketing of ducks, in 



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