. Our wild fowl and waders . rain bill. Mr. L. H. De Visme Shaw, in a book on Wild Fowl,says: The pieces of water one proposes to convert intoduck ponds should be as near the middle of the shootas possible; the distance separating them from eachother should preferably be not less than half a larger they are the better. Their situation must beso far isolated that there is no risk of the birds beingdisturbed. There may be a stream running through the shoot,or there may be ponds or springs suitably situated. Inthe former case dams can be built to hold up a body ofwater sufficient to last
. Our wild fowl and waders . rain bill. Mr. L. H. De Visme Shaw, in a book on Wild Fowl,says: The pieces of water one proposes to convert intoduck ponds should be as near the middle of the shootas possible; the distance separating them from eachother should preferably be not less than half a larger they are the better. Their situation must beso far isolated that there is no risk of the birds beingdisturbed. There may be a stream running through the shoot,or there may be ponds or springs suitably situated. Inthe former case dams can be built to hold up a body ofwater sufficient to last through any spell of droughtduring which the stream may run dry. The possibilityof water giving out during a dry season must always beone of the first considerations, this possibility beingobviated by efficient puddling. I have seen several thousand ducks which weresuccessfully reared about some very small artificialponds on an American preserve, and I have also seen agood lot of ducks which were reared on a quail preserve,. SAFE AND ATTRACTIVE PRESERVES 25 where a small pond was made for them by building avery inexpensive dam across a little stream. The bigquail preserves in North Carolina easily could producea large number of fowl about ponds made by dammingthe small streams. There are hundreds of thousands of likely ponds,sloughs and marshy streams in America where wildducks formerly nested, but which have been shot swamps, ponds and sloughs are absolutely worth-less for agricultural purposes until they are drained,with the exception of those where cranberries aregrown, and there is room enough in America for everygun to have desirable duck shooting during a long openseason at a very small expense, provided the ducks beproperly looked after and not driven away as they arenow whenever they attempt to nest. Although the ducks can be introduced easily andmade abundant in many localities where they never wereknown to occur, it is evident that the best place tostart a du
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