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prollts corn and bran are rated at $14 and middlings 

 at $15 per ton, millv'at twenty cents per hundred, and 

 lettuce at one cent per pound. The ducks gained much 

 more rapidly than the chickens and the gains were more 

 economically made. The chickens were not large 

 enough for market at the close of the test and the feed- 

 ing was continued for some time before they were sold. 



At the North Carolina station eighteen Pekin 

 ducks were fed for fifty-six days from the time they 

 were hatched. At the beginning of the test the total 

 food consisted of 4.4 ounces of corn meal and an equal 

 amount of bran per head daily, while at the close of 

 the test, six pounds ten ounces of meal, four pounds 

 three ounces of bran and three pounds five ounces of 

 bone were fed daily. In addition to the grain an 

 amount of fine grit equal to one-sixth of the weight of 

 the grain, and chopped green clover equal to one-fourth 

 the bulk of the ration, were also fed. All the feed was 

 mixed with water to a crumbly mass and fed in troughs. 

 No water was allowed except for drinking purposes. 

 In this test corn meal, cut bone and grit were each 

 rated at one cent per pound and wheat bran at 0.9 cent 

 per pound. Account was also taken of the value of the 

 clover fed, the eggs set, and the food of hens carrying 

 the ducks. The ducks weighed two ounces when 

 hatched, and four pounds fifteen and one-half ounces at 

 the close of the test. The cost of a pound of gain 

 was 5.05 cents. 



What to Feed Young Turl-eys, as told by E. D. 

 Weswer of South Dakota, whose methods have been 

 awarded a prize in a recent contest: After the eggs 

 are all hatched and the young turks are taken off and 

 placed in their house and yard, give them their first 

 meal, which should be stale bread crumbs soaked in 

 inilk, and hard-boiled eggs. Boil an egg five minutes 

 and it will be tough and indigestible, but boil it half 



