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Show Use the drop-board scraper every day. Have the floor clean and dry under the litter. Do not feed ducks whole grain of any kind. Geese must have a large range and plenty of water. Idleness is not conducive to a high percentage of fertile eggs. Breeding ducks should be fed twice a day, morning and evening. Milk fed chicks have become a tandard in fancy markets. Warm the drinking water a little if there Is any chilliness in the air. Fowl? tVn- rave had roup have a tendency to transmit the disease to their offspring. Haphazard selection of the breeding stock is often directly responsible for poor results in hatching. Ventilation, which means fresh air and sunshine, is of extrerr - Importance Import-ance all through the winter Unless all the elements for the formation of eggs are put into the hen's, body she cannot be expected to lay well. Granted that one has well bred stock, the next point that determines its profitableness is the care and management. man-agement. Avoid going near your ducks at night, particularly with a lantern, a they are very timid and it will mak them uneasy for the whole night Chicks that fail to develop steadily should be punch marked bj they can easily be distinguished when the time for selecting breeding stock arrives. Use wire nests, even if of homi manufacture. Onc a month burn tb straw, wipe the wire freely with kero gene (coal-oil), and put in fresh straw, |