Show W M r it va W the duck generally lays at night A simple egg record for the year should be kept ducks so do not make good sitters I 1 use a chicken hen good whole corn 13 one of the best foods feeds for the otting hen no mo class of 0 farm stock can till utilize anze screenings so BO well as poultry A duck Is not cot fully matured until it Is about two an and d one half years old geese are very profitable taLle especially if one has a larin farm I 1 located 0 an essential in the lien hens S comfort in cold cod weather Is a floor coor where no drafts are felt the duck house houfe should have an earth floor and heavily bedded with straw or leaves it takes a pretty good hen bea jo atay eta on the job three whole weeks and bring brine off a nice nce litter of chicks the composition of eggs Is about 63 per cent water hence the necessity tor for supplying it plentifully and pure early in the season when few bers bees ere are broody the incubator will be found necessary to produce early chicks it if the ten hen nerta neets are supplied with fresh clean material there will be no need of washing the egis before reading them to market in their wild state guinea fowls mate in pairs and many particularly earlier writers on the subject cocom I 1 mend mating therit them thus in captivity I 1 even L ven with the large addition to the plants plant that have been made the past ten yeara the demand for now new la is just as far la in of the supply as it was then dust young turc s end and their mother once every tw i weeks with insect powder until thiv ore are at least AX x weeks old lice tray may not be dincov ered atza m ia it them nevertheless it te it a ld to acquire |