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ReEcorp or Layrne or Nive Inpranw Runner Docks. 
(Hatched 16th November, 1897.) 
Day. 1 
LS 
(x 
4, 5. 6. % 9G We th, 9 GR OE i Sk 
Mayra vet: te ky lie oy eee a Lalla Ce malieloe hy mmep, 8 Lys Ee retin dey) 
pane nop t4 04 6 5 3 dD 5 5 2 5 3 3 2 3 6 6 
July (a Mec mete Sie ies) Senos COP #65 Che a7 9 AG 7 7 
AC USUaeerd Mee Some SPST ew eB 5) Sy ei 80 OR gas 
September...8 8 7 8 7 Ge CaaS ee) t/a G See eS eS 7 7 9 
Cima 4 8 H WH Y Be Ry a Se te ae 
November...9 9 8 8 6 6 7 5 va 6 6 i) 5 9 8 8 $s 
December...8 6 9 8 6 5 6 5 5 { 5 6 5 7 5 6 6 
January Bh 8) ¢ 4 6 + 6 4 3 6 5 5 4 5 a 4 
February ... ... uo 2, 1 2 1 2 2 2 2 1 2 1 1 1 
March id Lima Limes +h Re: 1 red 1 eee | 1 
April tts 2 eee oe, 1 2 1 2 3 2 2 1 By | YY 5 3 2 
ay aye ey Te) 8 i) 8 i) 6 6 7 6 8 7 7 7 5 
Day, 15 9a O 202 Le 2 2S 24S 2G 7 EOS 20) 30 31. Total. 
MEN ey, rapa! oli 2 2 2 2 ») 2 3 3 8 30= 25 
June -5 6 6 6 5 4 5 “ 7 8 i) 5 8 = rl 
July +5 6 ij 7 8 8 7 5 4 5 5 5 ay st BU 
August at 8 9 9 8 9 i) 8 9 9 8 q 5 Cae 248 
September... 8 8 9 8 8 9 7 8 7 7 8 9 8 = 934 
October 8 i“ 9 8 8 7 8 8 8 8 7 8 9 {) Bae 4 0), 
November... 8 8 9 6 4 5 6 4 5 5 5 7 9 = 205 
December ... 6 6 7 6 6 5 4 5 6 3 3 4 3 By) 
January ... 5 2 2 3 4 3 OF BY 8 1 2 1 9 1 = U1 
February ... 2 cre wl 1 1 1 henge 1 1 1 ~: ae nao 32 
March box eee sr il Bel A Lal ay 2 1 = 15 
April pP OD OW ye Ge aie ts 4 6 Yo Sibi) 
ay .8 7 7 bes dk Tass Pla” 53 = Ibie 
1,891 
Grand total, 1,891. é 
Average of 210 per duck. 
Average weight of egg, 23 07. 
Total weight of eges produced, 295 lb. 
The nine young ducks hatched August have laid 753 eges for the first five 
months of this year. 
FOWLS IN CONFINEMENT. 
Overrrepine and lice are the two causes of most disasters to poultry, and 
as neither of them are diseases, poultrymen are to blame for all the many con- 
sequences that follow upon their heels. Poultry in confinement must be fed 
differently from those which have a free run of grass or woodland, in which 
latter they revel, hunting over all the leaves, and scratching away, around and 
under old logs, for their favourite grubs and bugs. If you have not made it a 
business to watch your hens and chicks carefully you do not realise what a 
large amount of grass and green food they will eat in a day, when it is at hand, 
and when they have not been oyerfed with grain or scraps, and this is not all, 
as hens need rough food or something that gives bulk as well as nutriment. 
Even though you feed the confined birds the same identical food they obtained 
for themselves on a good run it would not be the same, as they would still lack 
the exercise so necessary for their health, and, therefore, in confinement, the 
same food would be too much for them. This is why successful raisers of 
poultry in confinement always throw the grain to their fowls in straw, thus 
compelling them to work for it; also hanging a cabbage-head just out of * 
standing reach, so that they must jump for every pick at it. This is a good 
system, and exercise is necessary for their health, but if the food was composed 
more of nitrogenous elements, and less of the carbonaceous (especially of the 
oils and fats), there would not be so much necessity for this constant training 
down process, less over fat hens which stop laying and want to set, less 
