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or bread crumbs, and corn meal, equal parts by measure, sand five 

 per cent of the total of the bread and meal. Moisten with sweet milk 

 or water to a dry crumbly state, not sloppy, and feed four times a 

 day what they will eat up clean, in addition to this, feed one hard 

 boiled egg, crumbled fine, to fifteen ducks, twice a day, morning and 

 night. The hours for feeding are 6 a. m. and 2 p. m. and 6 p. m. 



A brooder house, and ducks being raised in large numbers. 



From five to twenty days old, feed the following mixture: Two 

 cups wheat bran, one cup corn meal, half cup rolled oats, half cup 

 shorts and middlings, one fourth of a cup beef scraps and one-fourth 

 cup sharp sand, mix with sweet milk or water to a dry crumbly state 

 an,! feed four times a day. Keep water before them at all times and 

 sharp sand in and around their drinking vessel. The size of the 



measuring cup used depends on the 

 number and age of the flock to be 

 fed. 



From twenty to forty days old, 

 feed wheat bran two measures, corn 

 meal two measures, shorts one 

 measure, beef scraps one-fourth 

 measure, sand one-fourth measure. 

 Moisten to a dry crumbly state, feed 

 three times per day. 



From forty-two to seventy days 

 old, feed corn meal two measures, 

 wheat bran one measure, beef 

 scraps half a measure, green food one measure, and cooked potatoes 

 or vegetables of any kind, or fine cut alfalfa or clover. This last 

 ration is for fattening ducks for market at ten weeks old: this is too 



Toulouse Geese. 



