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that they cannot swim, and in which they can wade at 
pleasure. The water should be changed often and kept 
in good drinking condition. For the first food nothing 
is better than the yolk of hard-boiled eggs or boiled 
liver, chopped very fine. The food had better all be 
cooked for the first week. It may then gradually be 
changed to coarse scalded Indian meal, oatmeal, wheaten 
grits, or rice, as suits the convenience of the feeder. 
Bread-crumbs and sour milk are excellent food, as are 
angle-worms and snails. Ducklings are quite as good as 
chickens at devouring insects, and nothing seems to 
narm them but rose-bugs, against which they should be 
jealously guarded. For this reason they should be kep’ 
away from grape-vines and other plants specially attrac.. 
tive to these insects. As the ducklings grow older they 
may have more liberty and a greater variety of food. If 
they have not plenty of grass, its place should be sup- 
plied by lettuce, onions, cabbage, or other green succu- 
lent food. If you desire exhibition birds of the largest 
size, it is particularly important that the ducklings 
should be fed regularly, and at frequent intervals, hav- 
ing all the food they can digest. Five times a day is 
none too frequent feeding. We have usually succeeded 
quite as well with ducks as with chickens in a village 
yard. When grown, we give them a larger range. 
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AN ARTIFICIAL DUCK-POND. 
Ducks and geese may be raised successfully without 
any pond or stream; yet some prefer to give them an 
abundance of water, and such can make an artificial 
pond on the plan shown next page. This is a wooden 
box ten inches deep and four feet square, or it may be 
two feer wide and six or eight feet long. his is set in_ 
