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Title: Wild Ducks
How to Rear and Shoot Them
Author: W. Coape Oates
Release Date: May 4, 2009 [EBook #28686]
Language: English
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WILD DUCKS
[Illustration: _W.L. Colls. Ph. Sc._
"_The Fleet at Flight time._"]
WILD DUCKS
HOW TO REAR AND SHOOT
THEM
BY
CAPTAIN W. COAPE OATES
WITH 4 PHOTOGRAVURE PLATES FROM DRAWINGS
BY G.E. LODGE, AND 12 ILLUSTRATIONS
FROM PHOTOGRAPHS
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON
NEW YORK AND BOMBAY
1905
All rights reserved
TO
MY WIFE
PREFACE
The main object of this book is to assist those who are anxious to rear
wild ducks on economical lines. The Author is not without hope that the
pages which it contains may even be of some use to old hands at the
game.
CONTENTS
CHAP. PAGE
I. SELECTION OF STOCK AND THEIR HOME 13
II. LAYING AND SITTING 25
III. HATCHING AND REARING 41
IV. SHOOTING 61
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PHOTOGRAVURE PLATES
_From Drawings by_ G.E. LODGE
THE FLEET AT FLIGHT TIME _Frontispiece_
ON GUARD _To face p._ 25
A TIDY MOTHER 33
QUITE TALL ENOUGH 61
FROM PHOTOGRAPHS
COMING IN TO FEED 16
THE CAGE 20
THE REARING PADDOCK 41
A SMALL RUN 46
WARE WIRE! 48
WIRED IN ON THE WATER
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