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chickens will select the leaves and other tender 

 parts and reject the more woody portions of the 

 stalks. The green material may be fed alone 

 or mixed with the moistened ground food. The 

 latter may consist of wheat bran, corn meal and 

 ground oats, the hulls of the oats having been 

 removed. Various kinds of ground grains may 

 be employed, although those mentioned are used 

 most by experienced men. 



Ducklings of some breeds appear to be quite 

 fearless in some respects, yet under other condi- 

 tions they are easily frightened, and, if a consid- 

 erable number are kept in one yard or pen, the 

 injury done by "stampeding" is sometimes con- 

 siderable. Pekin ducklings are particularly liable 

 to injury from this cause. Some extensive duck 

 raisers make a practice of lighting artificially 

 that part of the yard occupied by the fowls dur- 

 ing the night as a partial safeguard against 

 this trouble. 



GEESE GENEKAL DISCUSSION 



The rearing of geese is not so extensive a 

 business as that of raising ducks. The condi- 

 tions requisite for the successful raising of geese 

 are very different from those for ducks. The 

 rearing of geese is not in the hands of a com- 

 paratively few extensive raisers. Geese are still 



