14 POULTRY FEEDIXG AND FATTENING 



as it is, with other kinds of food. — [Nellie Hawks, 

 Kansas. 



Best Developing Ration — For developing thorough- 

 bred fowls as well as for laying hens, I. K. Feleh recom- 

 mends the following ration where the grains can be 

 procured at reasonable prices : Five pounds beans, ten 

 pounds each wheat bran and barley, and fifteen pounds 

 each oats and corn. These are thoroughly mixed and 

 ground fine. For the morning meal take four parts of 

 this and one part ground beef and scald over night. 



Expert Duck Raising — The following summary is 

 prepared by G. H. Pollard, an extensive and promi- 

 nent poultryman of Bristol county, Mass. : Start the 

 ducklings on a feed of two-thirds bran and one-third. 

 Indian meal. If we have milk, I mix it with that. 

 Give them drinking water from the first. We start 

 them on that food with just a handful of gravel or 

 sand thrown in for two or three days. After that they 

 are supposed to know enough to eat grit if they want it. 

 We mix the food cold as a rule. If we had very early 

 birds we would mix it with warm water and would 

 slightly warm the drinking water. I never cook the 

 food. As a rule it seems to me that it makes more 

 labor with no corresponding gain in produce. The 

 only question in making a good thing of the business 

 is in keeping the labor down. You cannot cut down 

 the amount of their food, but 3'ou can make a saving 

 in the amount of labor. 



We start the young du.cks on the above-mentioned 

 food and carry them along until about the fifth daj 

 and then begin to add beef scrap. When we begin to 

 add this food we gradually take away the milk and give 

 it to the younger ones ^\■hieh come along. In an 

 ordinary mash you cannot get enough animal food from 

 the milk used to mix it, so we use beef scrap to make 

 up for it. Wo rarely give milk to ducklings or even 



