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 72
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 … few feet across. Kept in this manner, they will not only be found profitable, butvery serviceable ; keeping; the place almost free of those slugs which are the gar-deners great plague, and doing but little damage, except to strawberries, for which 7-4 DUCKS. they have a peculiar partiality, and…
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