. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. ndstimulant, and said to atford preferable nourishment tothat of the goose, being less gross, and more easilydigested. The flesh of the wild duck, though moresavoury than that of the tame, is reckoned still moreeasy of digestion. The ancients went even beyond ourgreatest modern epicures in their high esteem for theflesh of the duck : and Plutarch as
. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. ndstimulant, and said to atford preferable nourishment tothat of the goose, being less gross, and more easilydigested. The flesh of the wild duck, though moresavoury than that of the tame, is reckoned still moreeasy of digestion. The ancients went even beyond ourgreatest modern epicures in their high esteem for theflesh of the duck : and Plutarch asserts, that Cato pre-served his whole household in health by dieting themon ducks flesh. „ 7499 Varieties and species. There are the Rhone,the Aylesbury, the canvass-backed, and the ducks hare been so constantly imported for a great rmmber of .... , .. ,ht, ,j.»v ale very eenerally mixed with our native breed. nerally of a daik-coloured plumage, large size, and supposed tf?^V™iuhduck particularly the white variety, especiallyto improve our breed. They ar? of darker flesh, and more ^^l^hance to h« bght coloured flesh, are never of »savoury, than the English duck ; but somewhat coarse. Rhone v. hen they cnance io .^ 6 4 A 2. 7500. The Rhone duck is originally from France, and ge- 109i PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE. III. >n,:liami ananrj ft»om »n itwdarfcsr colons, Mn ,..»>, 7J04. Tht tamo+ladni, bred only on Hit Fatowmac -mil other foreign amda of lb* dock, .irv kept rather out oi ru- Susquehanna rlren, are •« ret) recent Inooduction Iroin , than tin- i A merit .. and ir ill i Ik- found In « tern pteceani ? •lv,.r jaoi. Titr H-uVc Auhthniy .in- i bt wllfUi ind orti intents! i«.l; Ihej ir,- tahl to I* the bi-a in the world, and if »o will Hock, matehliia well in with tin- Bmuuen ht more out of curiosity than use; to be in any place, they must be reared there from the egg, otherwise they will fly sway ,i1. Breeding
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