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Show I FOOD FOR DUCKS. Nothing will make a more savory feed for the Htlfc duck than to tako'a spade and spade up a small plot of ground in a damp placo and allow thqm to galliot the worms and insects that arc turned up. Marshy places along a stream furnish fur-nish many beetles and sholl fish and If the young ducks are allowed a run of a yard like that the cost of feeding them will bo greatly reduced. Ducks can bo ralhcd In almost any poultry yard, .bul in order to mako them profitable they will rcnulrc moro care than tho chickens, and the breeding breed-ing Is attended with more expense in I yard that is not supplied with running run-ning water than whero It has sucli a convenience. To raise tho best and most vigorous ducks tho males should not' bo related to tho females, and ono drake should be kept for every two or throo ducks. After hatching keep In their pons until the dews are off and during cold storms and heavy rains. |