"Now to give real facts concerning the Runners. Although 

 breeders advertise them as 'Great Money Makers,' don't for a 

 minute think that the Runners are going to do it all themselves. 

 You may think just buying some, taking them home, letting them 

 out and giving them the run that they are going to have, will 

 make you rich. Not a bit of it! Any more than a good Jersey 

 cow will on poor pasture ! You must feed that cow first before 

 you expect to get much returns ; so with the Runner duck. Give 

 her half a chance! She is built to produce something. She will 

 hold her end as a forager and make her own living anyway; but 

 just give her real feed, and she will keep you carrying baskets of 

 eggs every morning almost the year 'round if you have a large 

 flock. Our correspondence shows that all are satisfied who have 

 tried the white-egg strain of Runners, English type. 



"We grow Alfalfa by the ton, and have equipped the feed- 

 ing room in our poultry house with a gasoline engine and Alfalfa 

 cutter that cuts the hay into J^-inch lengths. We mix this in 

 all our mash for the poultry and we know that it saves 40 per 

 cent of our feed hills zvith the Runners. Too much cannot be 

 said concerning Alfalfa for ducks and poultry. The Cornell 

 University people sent me their feeding ration for breeding 

 stock, and I tried it, thoroughly, for months. It is a good one: 

 70 pounds corn meal, 15 pounds bran, 10 pounds middlings, 15 

 pounds whole oats, 25 pounds wheat and 15 pounds meat scrap. 

 Give them a moist mash of this in the morning, and let them 

 run on grass range or the Alfalfa field. Give them a little corn 

 and wheat at night. I never failed to get lots of eggs, and 

 hatchable eggs, too." 



On a New Hampshire farm, one clever grower with initia- 

 tive to find new ways of making the Runners profitable to him, 

 wrote me of this "dodge" : "I find ducks valuable for two 

 reasons not mentioned in the papers. I use the Cornell (Agricul- 

 tural College) 'A' brooder, 8x8 feet, zvithout the heat, and I put 



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