Contents. 



CHAPTER XII. 



Ducks very profitable — Water needed for Breeders — Not to be kept with 

 Hens — Duck Farms — Housing — The Wild Duck — The Aylesbury — 

 The Rouen — The Pekin — The Cayuga — The Museovy — Ornamental 

 Varieties— Keeping in Small Runs — Forcing — Bi ceding— Hatching — 

 Rearing — Feeding— Preparing Rice 133 



CHAPTER XIII. 



GEESE AND TURKEYS. 



Geese in England — Benefit to Crops— Breeds — Weights attained — Manage- 

 ment — Turkeys — Said to be delicate • — • Breeds — Management — 

 Fattening 147 



CHAPTER XIV. 



THE SELECTION OB 1 STOCK BIRDS. 



Importance of Care in Selection — Influence of Parents— Selection for Layers 

 — Selection for Table Fowls — State of Breeding Stock — Buying Birds 

 — Buying Eggs for Sitting— Space for Breeding Stock — Birds not to be 

 Related — Evils of In-breeding — Number of Hens to Cock — When to 

 expect Fertile Eggs — Feeding — Importance of Health and Condition . 153 



CHAPTER XV. 



HATCHINQ. 



Shall Hens sit themselves ? — Selection of Place for Sitting — Hatching 

 Boxes — Making the Nests — Food and Water — Setting the Hen — ■ 

 Feeding — Airing the Eggs — Kind of Food for Hens — Dust Bath — 

 Testing the Esgs — Period of Incubation — Management during Hatching 

 — Helping the Chicks 164 



CHAPTER XVI. 



ARTIFICIAL INCUBATION. 



A Practical Success - Past Attempts — Difficulties — Later Attempts — The 

 Turning Point — Bouillier's Machine — Prejudice Against the Hydro- 

 Incubator — The Incubator Trials— How Superior to Previous Machines 



— Drawback to Hydro-Incubator — Voitellier's Hydro— Owen's Tabular 



— Arnold's Egg Oven — Self Heating Incubators — Hearson's — New Cen- 

 tennial — The "Perfect Hatcher"— The Thermostatic — The Novelty — 

 Brooders, etc. .......... J7(j 



