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share their food, was shown us lately at the yard of a subscriber, and 

 we have had it engraved (figure 3.) The food, was placed in .a square, 

 flat pan, in which a few bricks were laid, filling the middle of the pan, to 

 prevent the food being shoved beyond the reach of the ducks. Then a box 

 was turned over the pan and contents, and supported upon a brick at each 

 corner. After a little experience the ducks learned to run their flexible necks 

 under and fill themselves, while the disconsolate hens could get nothing. 

 Ducks will increase rapidly in weight if they have all the soft food they can 

 eat. The best place for them to pass the nights in winter is upon a fresh 

 manure heap, under cover. If one wishes to feed chickens and not ducks, a 

 convenient way is to lay a board or two, to put the feed on, upon two bar- 

 rels or wooden horses. 



FIG. 4. DUCK HOUSE. 

 RUSTIC DUCK HOUSE. 



" In figure 4 we have represented a rustic, bark-roofed duck coop, which 

 might be used either to confine an old duck and her brood at night, provided 

 the slat-work was so close as to prevent the entrance of rats or weasels, or 

 to confine a hen with a brood of ducklings, in which case the openings would 

 need to be larger, and the coop would have to be shut up at night by a close 

 front. There is more danger to young ducks from rats than from any other 

 cause." 



WIRE-COVERED RUN. 



We find in the Practical Poultry Keeper what is termed therein a wire- 

 covered run for chickens, and is deemed by the author a sensible way to 

 keep the young chicks from being destroyed by cats or rats. The plan 

 strikes us as being one worthy of consideration ; we therefore give it space 



