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com meal, one part middlings, one part beef scrap, 

 will carry them on till ready to eat. 



Green food should be provided from the very 

 first. Tender grass and cut clover may be mixed 

 with their food, about one part in two, and other 

 green food should be near, where they can eat as 

 they wish. 



Grit may be given in the food or it may be served 

 separately. Duck growers recommend that a 

 small amoimt of sharp sand be mixed with the food 

 of baby ducks, and small grit after two weeks. 

 Abput a heaping teaspoon to a pint of food will be 

 enough. Ducks must always have plenty of sharp 

 grit as they eat heavily. Cracked bone is impor- 

 tant for them also, in fact, all the diet of chickens, 

 with special attention to grit, bone, green foods, 

 and water. Water should be served in a large 

 pan or dish. Ducks do not drink easily from 

 founts. 



The rations above may not be followed exactly. 

 If the dry mash fed to the chickens is ready, that 

 may be used making it richer in meal and scrap 

 as they get older. Ducks will eat any good food 

 and thrive on it, if they have plenty of grit to 

 grind it, and lots of water to wash it down. 



