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Show HOW TO RAISE DUCKS. To be K.uccosaful in raising ducks ono should have a roomy yard enclosed en-closed with poultry netting. Tho netting need not bo over two feet wide. Ducks should not bo allowed to run at largo over the premises, they will ruin a flower or vegetablo garden in a short time, but are not detrimental in the small fruit garden It is not necessary to have a fine, expensive house for ducks, but It should be dry and furnished with dry : litter for roosting. It is not necessary to furnish swimming swim-ming water for them, but they must i havo drinking water in plenty. A t swimming place for the breeders will 1 result In a. higher percentage of fertile fer-tile eggsand also In stronger duck- ' lings. Thfs Js why It pays to uso groat I care In sbloc'tlng breeders. Uho only 1 birds with long bodies, thick, short legs, yellow bills and foot and bright s eyes. l . An. eaglo1 killed near Edgewaod. 't California' carried on ono of ltsfcct a field trap" which It waH loarned latVr had been Hqt.nt Plymouth, 3Q0' miles away. " ' . ' I |