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Rh the best ducks for stock, as well as giving rules for rearing and fattening the young stock. I have every reason to believe that a new and revised edition of this little work will be taken up very largely, and if it goes anything like "The Poultry Breeder and Feeder or, How to Make Poultry Pay," which has the largest circulation of any poultry work in England, and from which many have derived great benefit, I shall feel that I have done something towards bringing about a cheap food for the people of England. It must be understood that a duck's egg is worth more than a chicken's egg, as it is much larger, and many say it is more nutritious. At any rate, it is a change from a hen's egg, and some delicate people can eat a duck's egg when they cannot touch the former. I hope those into whose hands this edition of the book may fall will make it widely known, for by so doing I feel sure they will be doing their neighbours and friends a good service. Whatever may have been omitted in any chapter of this book I shall be only too pleased to give any further information upon to anyone. I always give advice on all poultry matters, to any one sending me a stamped and addressed envelope, and I am willing to give advice also on the management and feeding of ducks. I shall be pleased to answer all questions as far as I am able. Duck rearing has become a great increasing industry, and it is to be hoped that the English people may realise more and more what a grand field for enterprise this question opens up, and what a large amount of money might be kept in the country if only our cottagers and farmers aroused themselves and applied their energies to its retention.