Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-10-25
JOLLY LITTLE PEkIN DUCKS.
One City Window Display That Is
Likely to Make the Siqhtseer Smile.
New York SUM-

tNeW ioTk SUM-
One city show window of unfailing
attractivcness is that of the dealer in
poultry supplies. In one window there
has lately been exhibited big brood
of little ducks.
They are Fekir ducks, and when they
grew up they will be all solid white.
Now they are of tine color of light yell
low. well-dra wnout molasses candy.
and covered not with feathers, but
with the softest of fluffy down. And
they are funny.
Let one of them. the whole bunch be-
ing away up at the back OF the window,
start running down toward the front.
and half the lot will start after him,
and lining up with him in company
front. like company of soldiers dress
ing on right OF left guide. and come
on with a running waddle, charging
down the window to the glass. to the
smiling applause of all the humankind
locking on outside.
They are very tame. If the visitor
halts beside the Enclosure little ducks
and chickens-they dwell together in
harmony here hustle up to see
who is looking down at them. One of
will turn up the point of its bill and
stretch its head and neck up as high
as it can: but having as yet little reai
strength, it may lose its balance finally
and sink down and almost tumble over.
Then it RECEIVERS itself and waddies
gavly away Somehow the chicks ana
ducks both. small and young as they
are ard coming UP with perfect con-
fidence. seem wonderfully intelligent.
Like. for that matter. the little chicks.
these little Pekin ducks are incubator
Matched and brooder-raised. and the
eggs from which they were Matched
were from ncubator-hatcheG ducks.
this despite a fancy on the part of
some people that the eggs of ducks
incubator atched will not hatch in
turn.
The jolly little Pekin ducks sell for
IS cents a piece and the little chicks
for %. Who in a great city. all bri, ks
and mortar. buys the little duckla tinas
and chicklets? Why. lots of people The
little chicks are bought to a more or
less extent as a sort of pet for little
children. Somebody sees them in the
window and is pleased with them him
self and buys one or two and carries
them home. Some lively. chirping little
chicks might be found in city fats. for
that matter. permitted TO hop about in
their amusing way, or kept in some
suitable Enclosure. When they get too
big to be amusing. or the children get
tired of them, the chicks kept as pets
IN ii city Hat or a house would be pu;
into the yard, If there was any. and
any suitable place for them in it: or
they might be given away or other
wise disposed Of
The little ducks go out Of town
bought by suburban residents whose
business is in the city. who keep a few
chickens and maybe ducks and take an
enormous interest in them. There are
more such people now than ever. There
are sold nowadays more incuba tors and
breeders and more OF all the various
cOntraptiOns and appliances and imple-
ments and fittings and things of one
sort and another, including foods and
medicines and so on used in modern
poultry raising, than ever before. The
little ducks and chicks in the window
are just something incidental, that's
ADJUST a couple of items. The catd-
logue of a dealer in poultry supplies. in
these days. might be a generous sized
book numbering upward of hundred
pages.