So Money in Broilers and Squabs. 



Hallock's cold brooder is 175 feet long, by twelve feet wide. It 

 is divided into pens 10x10 feet, with a limit of one hundred young 

 in a flock. 



Mr. Hallock says it costs five cents per pound to feed ducks up 

 to ten weeks of age, two cents for help, two cents to market, and 

 three cents for eggs, insurance, etc., making a total of twelve cents 

 a pound. All over that amount is a clear gain. 



Mr. Hallock keeps his ducks in the heated brooder for from 

 three to five weeks, according to season and demand for room. After 

 that they are put in cold brooders for about two weeks. Very early 

 in the season they are kept in the cold brooders until ready for 

 market. 



Fifty breeding ducks should keep three 200-egg incubators 

 going, and turn out between two and three thousand ducks in a 

 season, giving one man all the employment he could want. When 

 one man would have to do all the work, fifty ducks would give bet- 

 ter returns than one hundred would. 



Mr. Hallock places the feed for his young brooder ducks on 

 regular feed sacks, instead of troughs. After the meal is over the 

 sacks are gathered up, and when very dirty are washed. 



Mr. Hallock says he would rather wash the eggs before put- 

 ting them in the incubator, than to use very dirty ones. Yet he 

 "believes that washing does more or less injure them. He tried the 

 experiment of putting eggs in one tray of his machine that were 

 gathered from the bottom of the creek where the breeding ducks 

 "bathe in. He noticed that but 20 to 25 per cent of these eggs were 

 fertile , owing to the length of time they were deposited in the 

 water. At the same time egg& that were layed in the houses, or on 

 land, gave 35 per cent fertility. 



The weakest part of a duck is its legs. 



Bathing water is an injury to a soft, green duck, as it developes 

 too much muscle, and is apt to render the carcass tough. 



From February to May the eggs are the strongest in fertility. 



On the duck farm of Weber Bros., Wrentham, Mass., the young 

 ducks for the first four weeks are fed five times a day. After that 

 they are fed every six hours. 



Bread or cracker crumbs, moistened with boiled milk, into 

 which a little powdered chalk has been dusted, Rankin recommends 

 as the proper diet for ducklings having diarrhoea. 



In feeding ducklings, go through the pens several times, and 

 give an additional amount to all that do not seem satisfied. One 

 hour after feeding make the rounds, and gather up all feed that is 

 left over. 



Two weeks time will be sufficient for fattening ducks. 



William H. Truslow says that the feathers from ten ducks are 

 required to make one pound. 



The saleable market duck must be fat, plump, and round, and 

 the skin of a uniform color. 



A good fattening food is equal parts of bran, cornmeal and mid- 

 •dlings, and one-eighth beef scraps. 



