accommodate 388 duck eggs, and if you average 150 good duck- 

 lings throughout the season, you are doing well." 



When dry, the ducklings are removed to brooders with over- 

 head water heat, the temperature held at ninety. Water and 

 coarse sand are given at once. Next morning the first feed, 

 "Spratt's Patent No. 5," is fed, being continued for four days, 

 when they are gradually worked on to mash. This mash con- 

 sists of six parts bran, two each of corn meal and middlings, 

 one part low grade flour, five parts cut green feed, and ten per 

 cent of beef scrap. This is the ration, up to eight weeks, when 

 the breeders are separated and fed as above noted, and the 

 market ducks get more corn meal, (twice as much) more flour 

 and a little more beef scrap. The cut green feed is lawn clips, 

 cut green clover, corn fodder, Essex rape or wheat. At ten 

 \veeks they go to market. They have had water only to drink, 

 and all precautions are taken to keep them out of the water. "A 

 muddy or dirty duck will not thrive." This man says that one 

 cent a pound additional cost of production means one thou- 

 sand dollars loss to him; he is, therefore, good authority to tie 

 to, because he knozvs what gives best results. He says it is 

 important to have sandy or well-drained soil. "Water in the 

 right place is good, but remember, the day of the puddle duck 

 is past. To get the price to-day, your ducks must be raised 

 under sanitary conditions, and ducklings so raised show the 

 benefit of such treatment." 



Warning: Don't write me, asking special questions about 

 "hard luck," if you are doing the things named below; for they 

 are all wrong. , 



If your stock is weak, or handled under distinctly bad 

 conditions; if you have forced your stock; if your sitters are in 

 a scorching location ; if you have filthy runs and foul water pans ; 

 if you feed rank meat or spoiled grains, or too much hulls; if 

 you feed too much meat in order to get more eggs; if you neg- 



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