of that assertion about Indian Runner eggs bringing as high as 

 20 per cent premium over hen eggs for market. They don't 

 do it here. I asked my grocer, who keeps rather a fancy Hne of 

 goods and pays me above quotations for 'extras', for my White 

 Leghorn eggs, about the sale of duck eggs. He said they never 

 took the duck eggs; there were few who would buy duck eggs. 

 So, there you are." 



So far as the 30 per cent premium on duck eggs is con- 

 cerned, I may say that I have personally seen commission receipts 

 where not only 20 per cent, but 50 per cent above the price for 

 hen eggs was received. But this is not a customary difference. 

 The peculiarity of the market for duck eggs is explained in 

 the chapter devoted especially to this part of the question. 



Another instance from the ranks of "the Opposition'' may 

 serve to fortify readers against the enthusiasm of admiring 

 breeders quoted, or a blind reliance on the words of the present 

 writer. This is noted from the only unfavorable review on the 

 first edition of this book which has come to my notice (the edi- 

 tors being otherwise uniformly kind in their reviews, and recog- 

 nizing the value of having a book on the Indian Runner giving 

 facts straight from the yards of many breeders). The one oppos- 

 ing editor says : "This is another partisan book, professedly 

 written to boom the Indian Runner Duck. It is unfortunate that 

 all the information one can obtain about these ducks is furnished 

 by partisan breeders of them, and probably needs to be taken 

 with the proverbial grain of salt! That they are great layers is 

 undoubtedly true [Hope Mr. Rigg saw that!], but that one of 

 them laid 330 eggs in one year may well be doubted until we 

 can have some reasonable proof of it other than just a mere 

 say-so. [Do readers know that most published "records" for all 

 breeds are "mere say-sos." Mr. Hunter published the 196-egg 

 White Leghorn "say-so," some years ago! V]. The Indian Run- 

 ner is a very small duck. What little meat there is on them is 



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