Excerpt from How to Make £50 a Year by Keeping Ducks: Also, the Breeding and Management of the Most Useful Varieties of Geese The primary object I have in view in compiling the treatise - as the title conveys - is to show How to make £50 a year by keeping ducks, and also how to augment that income by breeding geese. I have, consequently, dealt only in my work with those varieties of ducks which I con sider best fitted to accomplish the object to be achieved. The breeding and rearing of ducks, both for exhibition and market, are minutely treated of, the reader being put into possession of all that it is necessary to know in order with ease and confidence to put the theory I propound into successful practice. Up to the time of writing this book no attempt had been made to draw up standards of perfection for waterfowl; on the ground that the birds were generally judged by weight. Admittedly, size, 12a, weight, is an important point in the most useful varieties of ducks and geese. At the same time there are many more equally important points to be considered. The numerous enquiries I have had from beginners, concerning this matter, convince me that a scale of points would be beneficial, especially to young fanciers. In con sequence of this I have drawn up standards of excellence for the varieties on which I have written, and, with the assistance of several members of the Waterfowl Club, I am here able to place before my readers recognised standards and scales of points, which I feel sure will be welcomed bv, and be a boon to, waterfowl fanciers generally. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
