The Canadian farm annual for 1880 published in Connection with the Weekly Mail (1880)
Weekly Mail, Toronto · Toronto, The Mail 88 p. illus. 22 cm · leaf 71
-ed ten pounds, but such asize is not common, and verysmall specimens are moreoften seen at exhibitionsthan of the other Frenchvarieties. The head should be sur-mounted by a good Polishcrest of black and white fea-thers. The wattles are pen-dent and well developed, andthe comb is the most pecu-liar… … DUCKS. 73 DUCKS, Being strictly water birds, it appears unnatural to keep them from their proper lm-hitat; however, they will do well in a garden or any other tolerably wide rangewhere they can procure plenty of slugs and worms, with a pond or cistern only a
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