ORNAMENTAL WATERFOWL. 
Part , 
CHAPTER I. 
MANAGEMENT. 
HERE is no reason why English amateurs should not 
be as successful as their French neighbours in the 
breeding and rearing of Ornamental Waterfowl. There 
is sufficient capital, and sufficient knowledge among our 
countrymen, to enable them to pursue successfully a study, 
which is both a delightful and instructive recreation, and 
may be made a remunerative business. For whatever 
reason the study of Waterfowl has been so greatly neglected by 
English fanciers, it is certain that for one breeder of these 
birds in England, there are fifty on the Continent. Belgian 
and French journals teem with advertisements offering for 
sale every variety of so called “fancy” ducks and geese 
bred by the advertisers themselves, not purchased from the 
dealers as imported to sell again. These advertisers are in 
many cases commercial men, not even necessarily proprietors 
of any considerable extent of land, but in many instances 
