THis Fowl is no less profitable than the rest, and less chargeable in keeping, generally being their own Purveyers; but 'tis good to [ 40] feed them Mornings and Evenings to keep them tame, and to accustom them to the House, so that when night comes they will be drawing home; these, or indeed any other Fowl, may be called home at any time when you de∣sire, by a Pipe or any whistling Noise, and to bring them to it, is always when you feed them, to make such a Noise, so that when they hear your Pipe, or Whistle, they will immediately come in expectation of Food; but never call them, but [ 50] Feed them, be it never so little. Grains is very good for them. They are great Layers when they begin; they Sit about a Month, and the Ducklings must be ordered and fed, as your Gos∣lings, only giving them Clivers chopt in Water, or Duckgraves, and when they are abroad will better shift for themselves than the Goslings. Ducks, or Ducklings, are easily fatted, giving them good store of any kind of Grain. [ 60]
The gentlemans recreation in two parts : the first being an encyclopedy of the arts and sciences ... the second part treats of horsmanship, hawking, hunting, fowling, fishing, and agriculture : with a short treatise of cock-fighting ... : all which are collected from the most authentick authors, and the many gross errors therein corrected, with great enlargements ... : and for the better explanation thereof, great variety of useful sculptures, as nets, traps, engines, &c. are added for the taking of beasts, fowl and fish : not hitherto published by any : the whole illustrated with about an hundred ornamental and useful sculptures engraven in copper, relating to the several subjects.
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- The gentlemans recreation in two parts : the first being an encyclopedy of the arts and sciences ... the second part treats of horsmanship, hawking, hunting, fowling, fishing, and agriculture : with a short treatise of cock-fighting ... : all which are collected from the most authentick authors, and the many gross errors therein corrected, with great enlargements ... : and for the better explanation thereof, great variety of useful sculptures, as nets, traps, engines, &c. are added for the taking of beasts, fowl and fish : not hitherto published by any : the whole illustrated with about an hundred ornamental and useful sculptures engraven in copper, relating to the several subjects.
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- Blome, Richard, d. 1705.
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- London :: Printed by S. Roycroft for Richard Blome ...,
- 1686.
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- Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- Early works to 1800.
- Sports -- Great Britain.
- Agriculture -- Early works to 1800.
- Science -- Early works to 1800.
- Hunting -- Early works to 1800.
- Veterinary medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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"The gentlemans recreation in two parts : the first being an encyclopedy of the arts and sciences ... the second part treats of horsmanship, hawking, hunting, fowling, fishing, and agriculture : with a short treatise of cock-fighting ... : all which are collected from the most authentick authors, and the many gross errors therein corrected, with great enlargements ... : and for the better explanation thereof, great variety of useful sculptures, as nets, traps, engines, &c. are added for the taking of beasts, fowl and fish : not hitherto published by any : the whole illustrated with about an hundred ornamental and useful sculptures engraven in copper, relating to the several subjects." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A28396.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 29, 2024.
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DVCKS.