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MakeYour  Own  Brooder 
These  Are 
All  the  Tools 
You  Need 
A  shoe  box,  a  few  nails, 
my  little  heater  and  an 
hour’s  time  will  give  you 
the  best  brooder  in  the 
world.  Get  a  Putnam 
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Route  264-B 
Elmira,  N.  Y 
EUREKA 
Colony  Brooder 
Use  it  30  days  at  our  expense.  You 
take  no  risk.  Burns  coal  or  natural 
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and  prices. 
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Inc. 
Box  244,  Sinking  Spring,  Pa. 
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THE  HENYARD 
Fattening  Ducks  and  Geese 
Kindly  advise  me  how  1  can  fatten  my 
stock  of  100  ducks  and  100  geese.  Ducks 
weigh  4  to  5  lbs.  now.  Geese  weigh  9  to 
12  lbs.  What  should  I  feed,  how  often, 
what  space  must  I  put  them  in  (pen  or 
ordinary  coop),  about  how  much  can  I 
fatten  in  two  weeks?  k.  l.  e. 
New  Jersey. 
Your  ducks  should  be  fattened  on  a 
ration  made  of  three  parts  of  cornmeal, 
two  parts  of  low-grade  flour  or  middlings, 
one  part  of  bran,  one-half  part  of  beef 
scrap,  with  3  per  cent  grit  and  10  per 
cent  green  feed.  Feed  this  mash  three 
times  daily,  or  use  a  mash  of  three  parts 
cornmeal,  one  part  low-grade  wheat  flour, 
one  part  bran,  5  per  cent  beef  scrap  and 
2  per  cent  oyster  shell,  with  the  green 
feed  and  grit  added.  The  green  feed  is 
sometimes  left  out  of  the  ration  during 
the  last  seven  days  of  fattening,  as  it 
tends  to  color  the  meat,  and  may  produce 
a  slightly  flabby  rather  than  firm  flesh. 
In  most  cases,  however,  it  is  better  to 
add  the  green  feed,  as  the  ducks  are 
easier  to  Keep  in  condition  when  green 
stuff  is  given.  In  places  where  fish  is 
cheap  and  easily  obtainable,  boiled  fish 
may  replace  the  beef  scrap,  but  should  be 
fed  only  up  to  two  weeks  before  they  are 
to  be  killed,  as  the  flesh  might  otherwise 
taste  of  the  fish.  If  milk  can  be  obtained, 
that  is  also  very  good  to  use  in  the  mash. 
A  darkened  shed  is  the  -best  place  for 
fattening  either  ducks  or  geese.  Do  not 
crowd  them,  and  keep  as  quiet  as  possible, 
never  permitting  them  to  become  excited. 
Give  plenty  of  drinking  water. 
Geese_may  be  fattened  in  flocks  of  from 
20  to  25.  Feed  three  times  daily,  giving 
one  feed  of  a  moist  but  not  sloppy  mash 
made  of  one-third  shorts  and  two-thirds 
cornmeal,  and  two  feeds  daily  of  corn 
with  some  oats  or  barley.  The  pens 
should  be  partly  darkened.'  It  is  impor¬ 
tant  to  use  plenty  of  bedding  of  oat 
straw,  both  to  keep  the  pens  clean  and 
to  provide  roughage,  as  the  geese  eat  a 
considerable  quantity  of  the  straw.  Some 
roughage  or  vegetables  should  be  provid¬ 
ed ;  also  plenty  of  clean  drinking  water. 
An  increase  in  weight  of  from  4  to  6  lbs. 
can  be  obtained  by  this  method  of  feed¬ 
ing-  MARIE  BETTS. 
Damp  Henhouse;  Breeding  for 
Pedigree 
We  built  a  new  coop  last  January, 
16x75.  W  e  used  it  for  a  brooder  and 
reared  our  pullets  in  it.  Our  two-year- 
old  coop  is  of  the  same  type — shed  roof. 
We  have  eight  windows  size  34x40  in 
the  coop,  which  swing  out,  ventilated 
over  the  top.  Size  of  opening  for  ven¬ 
tilation  is  1  ft.  wide  and  44  ft.  long  all 
told  in  four  openings;  four  partitions  in 
the  coop,  with  1-in.  mesh  wire.  Closed 
tight  on  all  three  sides.  Windows  face 
south.  Our  coop  is  damp.  Last  Winter 
the  water  even  dripped  off  the  ceiling 
some  and  ran  down  the  sides.  Floor  10 
in.  off  ground;  litter  about  5  or  6  in. 
deep.  We  were  afraid  of  bad  results,  but 
it  did  not  affect  the  birds  at  all.  Our 
whole  flock  had  an  average  of  207  eggs 
per  bird.  Feed  cost  $1.90  per  bird  ;  eggs 
averaged  46  cents  per  dozen  for  the  year, 
November  1,  1921,  to  November  1,  i922, 
leaving  a  profit  of  $6.03(4  per  bird,  out¬ 
side  of  hen  litter  and  our  work.  Would 
it  be  safe  or  help  if  we  had  ventilation 
in  each  pen  about  the  center  up  through 
the  roof,  or,  better  yet,  would  it  be  all 
i  ight  to  ceil  it  over  the  roosts  and  venti¬ 
late  between  ceiling  and  roof  between  the 
rafters?  Birds  scratch  practically  all  of 
litter  under  the  roosts.  Is  there  any  pre¬ 
ventive  for  this?  We  throw  it  mostly  to 
the  front  of  the  coop  each  morning,  but 
it  is  all  back  at  night. 
We  bought  seven  pedigreed  cockerels 
and  sevtn  pedigreed  pullets  from  260-egg 
record  to  315-egg  record.  Can  I  breed 
one  of  these  pedigreed  cockerels  to  these 
seven  pullets  and  get  pedigree  in  return? 
Being  pullets,  they  have  no  record  yet, 
and  if  I  do  not  trap-nest  them  I  cannot 
get  pedigree,  can  I?  If  I  breed  a  cock¬ 
erel  of  284-egg  record  to  a  pullet  with  no 
record,  should  I  get  284-egg  male  or 
female?  b.  m. 
Pennsylvania. 
I  presume  that  you  kept  your  windows 
closed  and  depended  upon  the  opening 
above  them  for  ventilation.  This  did  not 
permit  a  sufficiently  rapid  change  of  air 
to  keep  moisture  from  condensing  upon 
the  inside  walls  and  ceiling.  If  you  will 
arrange  your  windows,  or  the  upper 
sashes,  if  they  are  double,  to  drop  back 
into  the  building  for  about  12  in.  at  the 
top,  and  then  close  the  side  openings 
thus  made  with  V-shaped  boards,  thus 
forcing  incoming  air  to  enter  over  the 
tops  of  the  sashes.  I  think  that  you  will 
get  sufficient  ventilation  to  keep  the  in- 
erior  dry.  If  you  do  not,  take  out  a  win¬ 
dow  or  two  entirely.  A  ventilator 
through  the  roof  does  not  work  as  well 
as  does  an  opening  in  the  front  wall. 
Litter  is  -scratched  back  because  the 
fowls  work  near  the  light.  Window’s  in 
the  rear  might  help,  but  I  doubt  your 
finding  it  worth  while  to  put  them  there. 
Better  fork  the  littpr  to  the  front  when 
necessary. 
All  that  you  can  claim  in  the  matter 
of  pedigree  is  that  your  ehb-ks  were  sired 
by  a  bird  whose  dam  had  a  trap-nest 
record  of  284  eggs.  You  need  not  fear 
to  breed  pullets  and  cockerels  together, 
if  both  are  well  matured,  well  developed 
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