Show I 1 DUCK RAISING IS flourishing INDUS INDUSTRY TRY 11 IT I 1 10 five pen bristling house for dinks R W curtian of ra matiie N Y who raises about 30 ducks a year and make big profit at the business save eava it I 1 la hard harder me manual I 1 work k to raise raft ducks duche the than thick chickens and it the business requires equi r as patience and good judg count he ha selects eggs from the strung at ronger birds and sets seta them in frou before and broods brood a the them until they we are eight week old when they are fattened for market bafo before these ducks are fattened we sort eort out our breeding stock at the age when the ducks are old enough a BO th that we 1 can I tell fail the sexes cc I 1 go t saya any mr illi curtiss through throng h a large number of duck and ports I 1 might i g b frocia out ot it gat at five or ten fit to breed from out t of large lines flock of one hundred hu d dred that like ato a lot t 0 of f wc work cla every time you change the feed the buele wont won t eat and it if you change changa gradually they will probably be ott off their feed for two days and lust just it at that time we flirt out the breeding stock and it I 1 la just at t the he time we change the teed feed so that we do not joe loae anything wo we him handle II 11 Is the ducks by th the a neck we never biever I 1 it the them in by the legs s W V 0 hold held the it duck it up and look at him and ad it 11 he he haa is a good broad breast all the way through and fairly deep keel heel and broad b back a ck and it not too long a neck mid and hla his head not too long and it if he fights a great deal and tries to get a away showing b 0 wing he la Is strong then we will p pick ck wit out that duck lie ha has haa g got t to b be a certain octal weight we do wi not t actually weigh them because became that 1 Is too much trouble we take tahe the ducks duck out at 1 in may and ad they we are taken out in flocks of two h hundred dred we iii a start and drive these theae ducks over to the pasture and in ia driving them we will say aay that we have two hundred and ten fee or 01 two hundred and it fifteen V W a keep them in a large wood lot we P take let lots of time driving them along not too alow and not so slow as you would drive market duck we keep cost them the in moving and when we get the them half way over two or three of the them will break down and ad flap their wing and oil they commit cannot walk these he house for fee growing ducks duck ducks are left right where they are it la 18 simply the survival ot of the fittest and when we get to the breeding point pens there them will be duck strung strong all the way along where we have been driving the them it is only the duck that have strength to walk this distance being urged alt all the time that are put in the pon pen 1 then hen I we go back and clean up the ones onea that are left and they we are put let into the to marketing pen it doea doe not matter h how ow nice a duck they are because it la Is strength we are after we p put u t one hundred to two hun him dred ducks in a pen and there la Is no shed or anything tor for them to run ran un on der it is just simply a wood on it lot let it would be just juat as well td he have the them run I 1 in a field brov provided d ith they Y had bad some r artificial shade had but decidedly it deadly you have got but to have some shade holds tor for ducks I 1 it f dus you put ducks in a hot field I 1 in the summertime ummer time there is danger I 1 h have a seen een full grown ducks get sun suri struck and lie do down vt and ad tile die I 1 I 1 e teed feed them there tor for five months month on light food we U a do not want to fat ton ten them if t he re caly ducks that get act oft it their teed feed they are taken right ight off they we ara not kept A a lon keep lan ian tern a burning in the true trees wa on dark nights flights to keep th them aw 1 from go getting it ing scared A P peculiar ullar thing about dark bucka 1 la H that ru they will run old and trample on each other and jump in the corner of the pens pace it if they get beaded I 1 on a dark night it it la Is a brig bright moonlight bit owell igat night eight we do not light t the 1 lanterns the teed feed for these theae duck 1 ia tour four parts bron bran to one part of flour and ont part cornmeal and one t twentieth ent beat scrap p for green free teed feed we use has rome four parts part clover closer the clover to ter should bell be about con one third or a I 1 little till more t than b one third of the entire teed food you can feed them all the green gre an feed end he they ey will eat at A good gold indication is to watch their troughs and after they have eaten their teed feed it they leave a little clover in the trough you kno know they are petting getting all they went want a and it abe may be is a little more ore and it it f they clean this thia trough up they haven t quite quill enough to eat if they have t too I 1 0 ca much inch to et bat they pick the green graen toed feed out eat and leave act nothing b in g b but ut the m mash w h and d then you klo know w alfy t ho y haven ha t e enough n ug h green food feed we WB teed them wet mash rea mix it a little more moist than you do lor for hickens kwis T these h see duck bucka must net not of be fa cd all 11 they will eat because if you do the they will get in good condition th they ey af are to not of t to be ba tred starved but you must keep th them s in lust lost a little hungry and they ther folh H 9 go out net I 1 in this an one or two acres acrea of land and eat cut more or or 1 less green feed and they will run up and down the pen and it will give them we keep heed them in this thin manner madow until they are five montha the old and then than we change and put them in permanent quarters otters most any kind of a build ing will do fop fee a duck house it does not require very much light but it if yo you want eggs all the winter you must have it warm enough so BO that the eggs we wont t 9 get t chilled if you go through pretty often and take up the eggs they will not net get chilled we do not have any nests in our duel duck houses we simply bul bd the them with shavings we did try nests but vs a could not see lee any great benefit from them they will dig a hole bole in the tha cormir and lay the egg and cover it up and shin you go through in the morning you bae ha a to he be careful that Y you on do not walk on the eggs X W a breed from a pullet we never breed from a yearling duck A duck will take on fat very easily and it you I 1 keep th them in over the second year they get too ton fat slid and they will not at lay Us aa early ond and the eggs at are not net fertile and we cannot get good results re ault we vo mate one drake and live five ducks we a start tort these in october and as the sawn season a advances say about the first of march mar we 11 watch ah the ducke d cis and it ato we wa aee C two fit rakes drakes d get to fighting we wa catch one of them the ne catch tha poorest and put him in a pen by him telf self whenever we see any fighting we take out a drake and when there la be no fighting nigh h w wa I 1 leave them alone me habte and it they balance e themselves up sure sometimes time you yen wa will 1 1 find they thay will focal run can for a long time and a d there will be TO no fighting then therb th am will III come a rate rain storm and there the will be puddles ot of water in the yard and it you go out you will find dozens dozena of them fighting mail and they will test tear each other to pieces they will get the blood bw oil started and your five file drakes drake will get after one and fairly eat him I 1 have see been it when w we would not hem have more than one drake to ten or twelve ducks and it we would get just a aa good eggs as w we got get I 1 in I 1 th the winter |