THE GAME BREEDER 



105 



The Dusette Wild Duck Ranch. 



MALLARDS AND NEAR MALLARDS. 



F. B. Dusette. 



I am sending you some pictures of my 

 ducks as we breed them on our ranch. 

 I took a great interest in the comments 

 the breeders made on the picture of so- 

 called wild ducks on the January cover 

 of your magazine. I know that the edi- 

 tor of The Game Breeder knows a wild 

 duck when he sees one and I think the 

 magazine has done a great deal to cause 

 all our wild mallard breeders, as well 

 as the buyers of eggs and breeding 

 stock, to realize the great difference be- 

 tween the pure wild ducks and the so- 

 called mallards which in most cases are 

 of no breed of any kind. 



I have been told by some good game 



breeders, who claimed to be old breed- 

 ers, that they got a setting of eggs five 

 or six years ago from a noted breeder 

 and had only bred from the choicest of 

 them all this time, claiming that they 

 now have a very fine grade of breeders. 



There is where most of our mallard 

 breeders have made a big mistake as 

 this is what I call in-bred stock and al- 

 most worthless; but the average buyer 

 will purchase this quality of stock and 

 eggs because they think they are getting 

 pure-bred birds and eggs at about one- 

 fourth what it costs to produce pure- 

 bred birds that are not in-bred. 



I have only been breeding mallards 



Pure Bred Black Ducks. 



Teal, Widgeon and Pintai's, 



