Young Ducks — Disease Prevention — Gapes or 

 Pneumonia — Fits — Diarrhoea — Lameness — 

 Sore Eyes — Feather Eating or Quilling — Rats 

 — Cooperative Feed Association. 



VII. Commercial Duck Farming — Marketing . . . 102 



Proper Age to Market — Weights at Time of 

 Marketing — The Last Feed for Market Ducks 

 — Sorting Market Ducklings — Killing — Scald- 

 ing — Picking — Dry Picking — Cooling — Pack- 

 ing—Shipping — Cooperative Marketing Asso- 

 ciation — Prices for Duck» — Shipping Ducks 

 Alive — Saving the Feathers — Prices and Uses 

 of Duok Feathers — Marketing Eggs. 



VIII. Duck Raising, on the Farm 120 



Conditions Suitable for Duck Raising — Size of 

 Flock — Making a Start — Selecting the Breed 

 — Age of Breeding Stock — Size of Matings — 

 Breeding and Laying Season — Management of 

 Breeders — Housing — Feeding — Water — 

 Yards — Care of Eggs for Hatching — Hatch- 

 ing the Eggs — Brooding and Rearing — ^Feed- 

 ing the Ducklings — ^Water for Ducklings — Dis- 

 tinguishing the Sexes — Marketing the Ducks 

 — Diseases and Insect Pests. 

 PART II — GEESE 



IX. Extent of the Industry — Opportunities . . .141 



Nature of the Industry — Opportunities for 

 Goose Raising — Goose Raising as a Business 

 for Farm Women — Geese as Weed Destroyers 

 — Objections to Geese. 



X. Breeds and Varieties — How to Mate to Produce 

 Exhibition Specimens — Preparing Geese for the 

 Show — Catching and Handling 147 



Breeds of Geese — ^Nomenclature — Size — Pop- 

 ularity of the Breeds — Egg Production — Size 

 of Goose Eggs — Color of Goose Eggs — Brood- 

 iness — Size of Mating — ^Age of Breeders — 

 Marking Young Geese — General Considera- 

 tions in Making the Mating — Making the Mat- 

 ing — The Toulouse — The Embden — The Afri- 

 can — The Chinese — The Brown Chinese— The 

 White Chinese — The Wild or Canadian — The 



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