“BONELESS DUCKS.”

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2450, 15 March 1909, Page 5

“BONELESS DUCKS.”

America’s amazing genuis for ha- ; veution has resulted in the growing ;J of pipless oranges, stoneless plum;, ] thornles cactus, and other equally ex- 4 traordinary successes are still being $ scored by Mr Luther Burbank, the§3 hortieultual wizard, of California. To-day. however, the boneless duck | claims chief attention. It is not quit& ’ boneless, of course, but from samples exhibited the bird seems to be abso- | iutely breast-boneless. Bridgeport, 1 Connecticut, has the honor of rearing the first batch of breast-boneless ducks, much to the delight of American chefs and housekeepers,, because, as everybody knows, it has from time immemorial been the breastbone of the cluck that presented most difficulties to the dissector. Charles Winter, of Bridgeport, is the inventor of the breast-boneless breed. “It has been a question of careful culture and selection, nothing else,” says Mr Winter modestly. “Years ago I succeeded in reducing the breastbone to a mere rudiment, and now there is hardly a suggestion, of breastbone. Experience shows that breastbones for domestic fowl are hardly more necessary than appendices for civilised humans.” The cage at the poultry show in which the new breed of ducks was exhibited was surrounded by lovers of duck, who saw in the new product a solution of their troubles.