meal in the mash, for months in succession, with ducklings of all 

 ages from three weeks upward. 



These birds were not on range, so that one or two meals a 

 day were always of sprouted oats, best liked when sprouts were 

 about two inches long. Two measures of beet pulp and one and 

 one-half measures of clover meal were placed in the feeding pail 

 immediately after feeding. To these were added three measures 

 of waste bread from a restaurant, and sweet milk enough to 

 cover. When meal time came, four measures of clean bran, two 

 of fine middlings, three of corn meal, or corn and oats ground 

 together and one measure each of meat and clean, sharp sand 

 were added, with sometimes a half measure of linseed meal. 

 Sometimes a little charcoal was added. This was mixed with 

 milk if available. If not, with milk and water, or water only, till 

 it would just hold together well. If at any time the mass seemed 

 too crumbly, more fine middlings would be added. 



This feed producd fine fat ducklings which feathered well. 

 They were fed always until the breasts began to round out smart- 

 ly. No other test of "enough" is as good as this. Under this 

 method of feeding, there was less indigestion than during the 

 previous year when the clover meal had not been used. During 

 the first week, the ducklings got little but bread soaked in sweet 

 milk with sprouted oats. Later, dishes of dry bran were placed 

 about for the benefit of any which might have been cheated of a 

 rightful share of feed. Meat was increased about new-fledging 

 time at ten weeks especially if milk supply were short. With 

 range and milk, not much meat is necessary; none, where insects 

 are plentiful. 



A southern breeder starts the ducklings on rolled oats, dry, 

 fed on sand, with water at hand. After a week or so, he puts 

 them on cooked oatmeal and other stuff available, cooking the 

 feed in the fireless cooker. He gives Epsom Salt in water once 

 a week, as the AustraHan people did to their layers during one 

 competition. Good success is reported. 



