. 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. have thebenefit of what the pond affords, they can be in no want of loose food. Acorns in season are muchaffected by thicks which have a range ; and they will thrive so much on that provision, that the quantityof fat will be inconvenient, both in cooking and upon the table. Ducks so fed are certainly inferior indelicacy, but the flesh eats high, and
. 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. have thebenefit of what the pond affords, they can be in no want of loose food. Acorns in season are muchaffected by thicks which have a range ; and they will thrive so much on that provision, that the quantityof fat will be inconvenient, both in cooking and upon the table. Ducks so fed are certainly inferior indelicacy, but the flesh eats high, and is far from disagreeable. Fed on butchers offal, the flesh resembleswild fowl in flavour, with, however, considerable inferiority. Offal-fed ducks flesh does not emit theabominable stench which issues from offal-fed pork. When live ducks are plucked, only a small quantityof down and feathers should be taken from each wing. Decoys fur wild ducks. Wild ducks, and other aquatic birds, are frequently taken by the devicetermed a decoy, which, in the low parts of Essex, and some other marshy districts, may be considered asconnected with husbandry. A decoy is a canal or ditch, provincially pipe of water {fig. 940.;, with a grassy 940 uEC^I. ^,;- •loping margin il) at its junction with a river or larger piece of water ;8\ to invite aquatic fowls to sit onand dress their plumage ; but in other parts, covered with rushes and aquatic plants for the canal of the decoy arc placed reed fences 02. 2 , to conceal the decoy-man and his dogs from theSight of the ducks. There is an opening in this fence (.3), where the decoy-man first shows himself to theUhds to force them to take the water ; and having taken it, the dog drives them up the canal, the man Book VII. THE GOOSE. loos looking through the fence at different places (4, 5, 61 to frighten them forward. At the end of the cana!is a tunnel net (, , where the birds are finally taken. In operating with this trap, a
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