THE GAME BREEDER 



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NOTES FROM THE GAME FARMS AND PRESERVES. 



Artificial Lake Full of Ducks. 



-From Our Wild Fowl and Waders. 



Breeding Wild Fowl in Kansas. 

 George J. Klein. 



Various experiences with the teal have 

 taught me that I can only get one set of 

 eggs from the green winged species. The 

 blue wings will lay three and even for 

 times in a season. I have induced the 

 -dusky duck, often called black duck, or 

 black mallard, to lay three clutches of 

 eggs. 



I know personally some pintails and 

 blue-winged teal which laid eggs in May. 

 Both birds incubated for ten days when 

 a severe hail storm drove them from 

 their nests and broke their eggs. Both 

 birds made new nests and incubated the 

 eggs laid in them for nearly two weeks 

 when high water washed their nests 

 away and in September these two ducks 

 each hatched a brood of ducks in my 

 meadow. 



I have never been in a position to 

 breed any species of geese excepting the 

 Canada geese. I have never attempted 



to take the eggs of these, always letting 

 the geese hatch the eggs they laid, but I 

 can see no reason why they would not 

 lay more eggs if the eggs first laid should 

 be gathered. 



Black Ducks. 



I have at my summer place a space 

 about 500 feet square, fenced ; about one- 

 third water, one-third marsh and one- 

 third high land. Last winter I kept over 

 twenty black ducks and seven drakes 

 and they brought oft about 200 young 

 ones last summer. I keep the ducks 

 housed in the winter and turn them out 

 early in the spring and pay no more at- 

 tention to them excepting to feed them 

 corn every morning. They all make their 

 nests in the marsh and I do not disturb 

 them. I have no doubt if I gathered the 

 eggs they would lay many more than 

 they do. 



My greatest trouble is with turtles and 

 hawks. They get a great many young 



