El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-06-24

cubator as well as under hens and | do
not see any difference, although / per-
sonally would take the incubator. Duck
eggs need more air circulation than hens
eggs.
do not feed the young ducks for
about 40 or 4S hours, permitting them
first to get quite lively on the yolk of
an egg, because if fed too soon they are
pretty sure to be killed, the same as
young chickens.
The first feed / give them is bread
soaked In milk or water, squeezed quite
dry and sprinkled with coarse sand, then
after four days, begin with a mixture
OF brans three parts; corn meal, one part;
low grade flour or shorts, one part; beef
scrap, one part; all mixed with some
sand and fed five times daily. After
four weeks, feed them four times daily,
and after three months twice
Ii You have free range for them, 50
much the better, but if you have close
quarters, then be careful and keep them
clean and as dry as possible, moving your
water vessels around so that they viii
not make mud puddles. A duck always
prefers to mix his food, whether it be
angel cake or common boarding house
hash, with a nice lot of clean, sweet mud,
and mud.
Water for Ducks.
One thing very important about the
water vessels for ducks is that the
water should be deep enough so they can
get their heads in up to the eyes; for
If you do not see to this, they viii many
times die, for they get their nostrils
filled with mud, which dries, and stops
their breathers
Another cause OF many deaths is per,
uniting little ducks to get wet and
chilled. Have your drinking vessels COW
cred so they cannot get in; also if a rain
shodid come, always get them under
shelter. for they VIII, If very small,
stand in the rain, head up and bill open
until they fill up on water and tumble
over and die.
After they are well feathered out,
which is about seven 30 eight weeks, then
they can stand rains and water without
danger.
When you are in the pens. always
walk slowly and never make quick
move; the Indian Runner is a very nerv-
GUS duck; and by moving slowly you can
get them very tame, and can even take
them in. your hand, which I often do
with mime You can keep one drake for
each five or six ducks and get GOOD re-
suits.
Eggs Bring Good Price.
The eggs being pure white shelled and |
tOAJ 1dtSc, D1lilR ucudIly q HUE ABOVE ]
the market price for hens eggs and they (
can be produced cheaper than the hens /
eggs. This breed being non-sitters, they |
VIII law 10 months or more each year, /
and keep it up for eight or ten years. /
They need plenty of shade IN this region, /
which can be had best where they can run |
IN the orchard, or where there are cotton (
wood trees. If there are no trees, YOU
can get a quick shade by planting sun
flowers quite thick
I sowed wheat with the sunflower,
and they ate up all the wheat, although
did not turn them in till the wheat was
over a foot high.
Their meat is very fine food. being
sweet and well favored, their food being
about the same as that of hens, and
it takes an expert to tell their eggs
from hens eggs.
| know of no better region for duck
raising than along the Rio Grande valley,
where alfalfa would make their produc-
ton a very cheap proposition
Elmer Stearns,
Escuela de Agricultural