Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1913-02-14 | Page 6 | Care of Ducks in Winter

CARE OF DUCKS IN WINTER Any Kind of Green Stuff That Happens Hap-pens to Be Handy Makes Excellent Excel-lent Feed for Fowls. During winter I feed my ducks any green stuff that I happen to have handy. Turnip, parsnip and carrot tops, cabbage leaves, beet leaves, on-onion on-onion tops, purslane, pigweed, tender crab grass, lettuce, radish, mustard, cut fine, all make good bulky feed. These are dried in the shade during the summer and stored like hay. When I want to feed them a quantity is boiled for twelve hours and mixed with finely cut roots, such as potato, turnip, parsnip, carrot, onion and beet. Apples are also used, says a writer in the Orange Judd Farmer. These are all cooked. Not much of one kind of plant is given at a time. Four measures of any one with four of corn chop to each of wheat bran, red wheat shorts and boiled fresh meat are fed as a mash all the ducks will eat it up clean in a few minutes. If any of the mash is left, it is at once removed to avoid its getting sour. This feed is given twice daily during the winter and three times In spring. It has always al-ways proved satisfactory.