Show FAVOR INDIAN RUNNER dacks DUCKS hardest of all domestic fowls and do equally as wall confined as on free range indian runner ducks are tho the hardiest handiest har diest of all domestic fowls As ty do equally well in confinement or on free range they may bo be profitably kept kepi t by persons persona in town or city as well as by farmers they do not require pond or running water just water to drink in something deep enough so the whole head can be im mersed says the interstate they may be kept more cheaply on free range as they will find many things of little or no value such as bugs worms grasshoppers grass etc these they convert into large white eggs which it if not sold tor for hatching will command several cents above the market price of hen eggs and at easter will bring twice as much they do not dufferin dif ferIn flavor from hen eggs but are superior tor for all kinds of cooking As a the indian runner duck is excellent the meat Is tender juicy and fine grained thus far the demand for breedi breeding ng stock and eggs for hatching has been so great that the duck has not been raised to a great extent as market stock but wherever it ita has become known as a table fowl it is wanted As egg producers the indian runner females are too valuable to sell fell on the market until from three to nine years old A flock from a good lay ing strain krain will average from to eggs per layer per year if properly managed I 1 find by actual test that the feed that will keep a plymouth rock hen in good shape will keep a runner duck plump so I 1 think it safe to say that they can be kept as cheaply as any of the large breeds of hens in winter and cheaper in summer meria if on free range as they will forage farther into the fields we like them much better than hens as they do not destroy crops neither ahre are they so BO much of a nuisance around the buildings as hens the ducklings duc klings of this breed can be raised to a marketable size cheaper and more quickly than those of any other breed As the ducks never set the ducklings duc klings must be hatched by incubators or hens liens hens give the best results often hatching every ever egg given them the Tho eggs are very fertile and may if 11 desired be hatched any month in ill the year ducklings Duc klings hatched in june or july often lay all winter while it if hatched in march they will lay in time to hatch ducklings duc klings from them by the of october PLAN FOR A HEN HATCHERY door placed in front of each nesto nest hinged with leather and held by wooden cleats hero here is my plan for a successful hen hatchery I 1 take 16 foot lambet and make stalls for 12 liens hena which makes the nest boxes a little over 14 jf s k M 6 A hen hatchery inches wide writes J A crandall of norwich kan in the farmers mall mail and breeze breece slats and thin lumber may be used for the 11 partitions floor tile the nest department chicken wire Is used to cover the top of runs except tor for the doors A each of which Is 28 inches long enough to io cover two runs rune the doors B are the same length there Is also a door 8 by 10 inches in the front of each nest box and all doors are hinged with leather and held with cleate cleaod the roof board Is not hinged or nailed but held in place with cleats and may be lifted off |