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The Telegraph
30 March 1928
Money in Ducks
There is nothing In the poultry world so noticeable at the moment as the in creasing attention that Is being given to ducks. Unfortunately, however, the “duckers” are putting all their eggs into one basket, or in other words, they seem to have caught from some of the utility hen men the Idea, that all that matters In poultrydom is eggs (writes “G.IH.”. In the Auckland . “Weekly News”.)
We hear people talking about utility ducks, as others do about utility poultry, and all they mean In either case Is tho laying of eggs, or the capacity for so doing.- This Is wrong. We all know that there is money in eggs, but eggs are not, and should not he allowed to rend utility every time and all the time. Eggs have their place, and so has meat, and the bird