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Excerpt from American Poultry World, Vol. 7: August, 1916 The domestication of the duck is doubtless of very ancient origin, dating back many centuries B. C. Duck breeding. In Europe and Britain is of comparatively recent date though they were undoubtedly domesticated in India and China many hundred years before the dawn of the Christian era. The Pekin variety is in all probability the oldest family of domesticated ducks. There is a good deal of evidence pointing to the fact, that some varieties, particularly the Rouen, ' Decoy, _mallard and Call ducks are of comparatively recent origin as domesticated ducks. The fact is cited as rather convincing proof of this that flocks of common colored ducks kept by farmers on in land lakes and allowed to run at large become practically wild and the truly wild ones min'gle familiarly with them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.