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tilized, gathered and shipped, but your remedy is not at 
Buy of the end, but at the beginning. Buy the eggs only of 
Reputable reputable breeders of skill and ability who make it their 
Breeders 
business to please, and who consequently have done and 
are doing a large business. No absolute guarantee as to how eggs will 
hatch can be given. The best guide is the experience of an honest 
breeder, and from such a man you should buy the eggs, 
and rely in confidence on what he tells you,—and beyond 
that, look to yourself, the help you hire, and the appli- 
Profit by 
Experience 
ances you buy. 
There are many makes of incubators on the market, each fully 
described in the catalogue of the maker. The Webers have used two 
types, one an old pattern not advertised now; the other more modern, 
which is advertised. They like the old type as well as the new. They 
have tried many. They are to try a new large-sized incubator of 24,000 
egg capacity beginning with 1912. They do not think that their success 
with ducks is dependent on any one type of incubator. 
William Weber, the oldest brother, who ran all the incu- 
bators while connected with the firm, is an expert of 
experts in this line, and no doubt could master any incubators set before 
him, and turn out the thousands of ducklings just the same. Both the 
other brothers are also expert incubator operators. So do not write 
the Webers asking them to recommend an incubator 
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ata manufacturer. It should be remembered by beginners 
wil ta that an incubator is largely a tool, and the work it turns 
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out depends considerably on whose hands it is in. The 
choice of an incubator may be made intelligently by comparison of cata- 
logues and the machines themselves. 
In buying duck eggs, remember that you buy the breeder’s intelli- 
gence and skill as well as the eggs. You cannot raise the best type of 
Pekin ducks unless the best type of Pekin ducks laid the eggs. The 
ducks which you see on the farm you visit will be reproduced in the 
eggs which you buy from that farm. The germ of the 
ducks you want must be in the eggs or you cannot pro- 
duce them. Do not think that by superior management 
of an incubator or brooder you can produce an improved strain of 
ducks. By selection of the best ducks themselves, from those you raise, 
and in that way only, is advancement possible. A setting of duck eggs, 
twelve in number, costs as high as $5, sometimes higher, and more eggs 
at the same rate. 
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Ducks for Business 
The white Pekin is the queen of all ducks. This breed was brought 
to America from China, where they are raised now, and highly esteemed. 
The first specimens of Pekins were imported fifty years 
ago. In this comparatively short period, a great deal 
has been done to improve the size and breeding qualities 
Pekin is 
Queen 
of this variety. 
Other varieties of tame ducks are the white Aylesbury, Indian 
