THE GAME BREEDER 



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Mallards bred by C. H Shaw, in California, from eggs shipped from Connecticut The eergs were 

 laid by ducks hatched from eggs laid on the Game Breeders Preserve, Long Island, N. Y. 



Breeding Canvas-backs. 



By Arthur M. Barnes. 



You may be interested to know that 

 we have here on Mr. William Rocke- 

 feller's estate, three canvas-back duck- 

 lings. We understand that these are 

 the first canvas-backs bred and reared 

 in captivity in the United States. As 

 the parent stock were hand-reared by 

 Air. Herbert K. Job at Lake Winne- 

 pegosis, Manitoba, these ducklings are 



evidence that hand-reared birds will 

 breed if given a fair chance. 



The ducklings are now ten weeks old 

 and have a tank of water six feet long 

 as a preparation for being placed on 

 the lake. 



The first few days of their life they 

 were so wild we feared we could not 

 induce them to feed, but as they drank 

 freely we sprinkled duck meal on their 

 fountain and after swallowing some of 

 that, they would eat from the feed-board 



California Preserve where Mr. C. H Shaw will produce the Mallards in lar^e numbers. 



