most farms, worth almost nothing in money, unless operations 

 grow large enough to take the time of a man. Yet my corres- 

 pondent is so dissatisfied that he considers going out of ducks be- 

 cause only this profit will be open to him if he does not make a 

 success of the fancy eggs-for-hatching line! 



A letter sent to the Secretary of the Cumberland Club reads 

 in part as follows: "I am now living on a small place just out- 

 side of the city, but am going to move on to a 50-acre farm that I 

 own, and expect to raise these ducks on a large scale, and shall 

 then advertise. There is a large demand for ducks' eggs in the mar- 

 ket here at a good price. I am now (Jan., 1913) getting 45 cents 

 a dozen for them. I believe there is a great future for these 

 ducks, and that they will be money-makers for anyone that un- 

 derstands the raising and care of ducks: They are so easily 

 raised and so hardy. And I find that after they get their growth 

 they are small eaters — not much like the Pekins. 



"I am going to try and raise 500 layers for another year, and 

 shall set what eggs I have this year except what I have sale for 

 here. My ducks are doing fine : I have one pen of 17 that was 

 hatched out June 5th that commenced to lay the first of Novem- 

 ber and I am now getting from 11 to 15 eggs from them every 

 day. Another pen of 35 that was hatched out July 20th, I get 

 from eight to twelve eggs from. One of these laid when she was 

 four months and 14 days old. I think that was pretty good." 

 This letter is from the state of Delaware. It was not written for 

 efifect, but speaks the man's own winter experience and plans. 



A letter received by me from a stranger in August, 1912, 

 says: "Rest assured I appreciate the manner in which you up- 

 hold the original Standard bird in preference to the new-made 

 white and fawn so-called Indian Runner. I had these and the>- 

 were a failure with me, not alone in the quantity of eggs they 

 gave me as against an equal number of pencils, but also in the 

 quality of the product, as my fawn and white [American Stand- 



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