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FOREST AND STREAM. 

care being taken to remove any pieces of bone 
first. 
The machine may be fixed on to a table, and 
an earthenware basin placed underneath, so as 
to catch the meat as it comes through and falls. 
To this should be added biscuit meal, which can 
be purchased at 8s. per hundredweight, the meal 
and meat being rubbed together between the 
palms of the hands; so as to render the com- 
pound more friable; then add a little rice meal, 
which can be obtained at 6s. 6d. per hundred- 
weight, and a very small quantity of bone meal. 
The proportions which I have found most suit- 
able are one part boiled meat, six parts biscuit 
meal, half part rice meal, one-eighth part bone 
meal, the whole being worked with the hands 
until the proper consistency has been obtained. 
The food must not be too stodgy, but must 
break up easily. After a little practice very little 
difficulty will be experienced in getting it right, 
and it is only for the very young birds that 
extra care has to be taken, as the older they 
become the more easily ‘can they digest the 
coarser food. A pinch of salt may with advan- 
tage be added. I give my birds this food from 
the first day, and when they are four or five 
days old I put a little fine flint grit in the pan 
from which they drink. Do not mix the grit 
with the food, for they do not feed so well if 
this is done. 
As there did not appear to be quite enough 
vegetable matter in this preparation I tried the 
plan of giving them some of the common weed, 
known here as chickweed, and I found that the 
birds liked it immensely, and throve on it un- 
commonly well, and naturally it had the great 
advantage of costing nothing. Be careful never 
to give well water. It is drawn up from a con- 
siderable depth below the surface, and is con- 
sequently very cold, and not nearly so rich in 
animal and vegetable life as the water obtained 
from a pond. Ducklings give practically no 
trouble until they are a fortnight old, but from 
that time until they have grown their feathers, 
and are, say, six weeks old, they want constant 
care and attention. 
At this period it is advisable to give them dried 
flies, or “Mucibus,” as it is called. It is an ex- 
cellent tonic, and should be scattered in the 
water pans and given as a first feed in the early 
morning, and if the weather is bad, and the 
birds look pinched and have “got their backs 
up,’ many lives will be saved by repeating the 
dose when they are being shut up for the night. 
This “Mucibus” can be purchased from all the 
leading game food manufacturers at 6s. per peck 
or £1 per bushel. Personally I only use it in 
bad weather, or with birds that are weakly, and 
last year I reared some 500 birds, and only used 
two pecks durin&® the season. If the birds are 
healthly and the weather good no “Mucibus” 
is necessary, but it is a valuable food to have 
by -you if there is a spell of cold, wet weather. 
As an instance of the success of my system 
of feeding, I may mention that from one hatch 
of ducklings, which hatched out sixty-five strong, 
we reared no less than sixty-four, and not one 
of the birds had any “Mucibus,” but lived en- 
tirely on the simple food which I have described 
until they were sufficiently old to be taken to 
the water, which is generally when they are about 
seven weeks old. Once there, they will not re- 
quire nearly so much food and attention, as they 
will not only get a supply of insects on the 
water, but will speedily learn to forage for 
themselves on land. 
It is always best at this time to put one or two 
old ducks with the young ones, as they show 
them where to -feed, and teach them punctuality 
in retrrning home at feeding time: consequently 
fewer birds stray away and get lost. From now 
forward the ducklings will be fed on barley, a 
food of which thev are very fond, until they are 
ready either for the gun or for market, when 
it is advisable to add a little round maize for 
fattening purposes. Always throw the corn in 
shallow water, and in a long line. *-It teaches 
them to dive for their food, prevents them from 
bolting it so rapidly, and in the end it will be 
found that they eat less and do just as well as 
if they were given double the quantity on dry 
land. Nothing tends to make birds so helpless 
as overfeeding them at home. 


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