io6 Money in Broilers and Squabs. 



ten per cent, beef scraps, and is given three times daily. Tiiey re- 

 ceive once per day all the clover or fodder corn cut up fine that they 

 can eat. The ducklings are fed green food from start to finish. The 

 Vvebers find waste lettuce leaves most excellent for little ducklings 

 and they buy them by the wagon load when they can get them, and 

 think of putting up a hot-house in which they may raise lettuce sown 

 broadcast. They buy daily many cans of skimmed milk at 6 and 7 

 cents per can of SJ quarts and mix it with the food for fattening 

 ducks. As soon as the young ducks reach a weight of 5 lb., which 

 they do at about ten weeks, they are killed and marketed. 



"If one should ask the Weber Bros, what are the worst snags 

 to be avoided in following this business, they would probably say : 

 Do not breed "in and in" or raise breeding stock from anything 

 younger than yearlings. Do not fail to give your young birds, to 

 be used for breeders, more growing food and more freedom than you 

 give the ducks that are fatted and killed. Mate up before Novem- 

 ber I, and be sure to feed plenty of cooked vegetables and green 

 food as well as the right grain, if you want the eggs to be fertilized 

 •early in the year. 



"Their unusual success in securing a high per cent, of fertile 

 eggs early in the season should cause the beginner in artificial duck 

 culture, at least, to heed this advice in every particular." 



