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bovine tuberculosis, it is recommended that the same be accepted 
and that the Territorial Veterinarian be instructed to transmit 
the same to the Territorial Board of Health and the Board of 
Supervisors of the City and County of Honolulu for such action 
as these boards may see fit to take, especially in regard to the con- 
tinued cooperation with the Board of Agriculture and Forestry 
for the purpose of eradicating bovine tuberculosis as an essential 
factor in a wholesome milk supply. 
DUCKS. 
Very little appears in this journal about turkeys and ducks, a 
correspondent writes, and we find on referring to back numbers 
over a period, that this is so. Nevertheless there are a hundred 
people interested in fowls for one who keeps turkeys and ducks, 
and for every ten turkeys and ducks one hundred fowls are kept. 
What we notice about Muscovy ducks is that their looks belie 
them — they look big but their weight is small ; they are largely 
feathers, and we think this is greatly due to the bad start they 
usually get when young owing to the way they are fed. Mostly, 
ducks take pot luck, share the same food as the fowls, and are 
obliged to pick up grain like corn, Vv^hich is an entirely unsuitable 
food for ducks. The natural diet of ducks, which are aquatic 
birds frequenting streams, lakes and marshes, finding the bulk of 
their food in the water, is of a soft nature, and unlike the fowl 
they have no capacious crop to store food and no large strong 
gizzard to grind hard food, together with the sharp grit that fowls 
pick up. Fowls should not be fed sloppy food, but this is exactly 
how ducks should be fed. You can feed soft food in the morning 
to fowls but they would not dirive on sloppy food. The distinc- 
tion between the terms soft and sloppy is as follows — soft food 
for fowls, is meal mixed with scraps into a thin crumbly paste, but 
if more water is added until it gets a thin paste it becomes sloppy 
and suitable for ducks. But ducks can take soft food made for 
liens, as they will after a few mouthfuls go and drink enough 
water to clear their bills and wash the stuflf down. But hard 
corn or oats is not a good food for ducks, for them such food is 
slow and hard to digest. Ducks too, need more animal food than 
fowls to get quick and good growth. When we see our ducks do 
not get enough insect food we feed blood meal in their food and a 
little of that — a tablespoonful to a brood of young ducks — has 
good efifect. Table scraps are excellent. — Journal of the Jamaica 
Agriciiltural Society. 
