Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1913-01-17
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FAVOR INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS
Hardest Of All Domestic Fowls and
Do Equally as Well Confined as
on Free Range.

Indian Runner ducks are the
hardest of all domestic fowls. AS
they do equally well In confinement
or on free range, they may be profit
ably kept by persons 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 i'm
mersed, says the Interstate Poultry
man. They may be kept more cheap
ly 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 II not sold for
Matching will command several cents
above the market price of hen eggs
and at Easter will bring twice as
much. They do not differ in flavor
from hen eggs, but are superior for
all kinds Of cooking AS table fowl
the Indian Runner duck is excellent.
The meat is tender, juicy and fine
grained. Thus far the demand for
breeding stock and eggs for Matching
has been so great that the duck has
not been raised to great extent as
market stock; but wherever 1t has
become known as table fowl 1t is
wanted. -
AS egg-producers the Indian Run
ner females are too valuable to sell
on the market until from three to nine
years old. A flock from good-lay-
ing strain will average from 24O to
$50 eggs per layer per year, II prop
erly managed. I find by actual test
that the feed that will keep a Ply
mouth Rock hen in good shape will
keep a Runner duck plump, so think
1t safe to say that they can be kept
as cheaply as any Of the large breeds
of hens in winter and cheaper In sum-
mer If on free range, as they will for
age farther into the fields. We like
them much better than hens, as they
do not destroy crops, neither are they
so much Of a nuisance around the
buildings as hens. The ducklings OF
this breed can be raised to market
able size cheaper and more quickly
than those of any other breed. AS
the ducks never set, the duckllngs
must be hatched by incubators or
hens. Hens give the best results, Oft
en- Matching every egg given them.
The eggs are very fertile and may, II
desired, be hatched any month In the
year. Ducklings hatched in June or
July often lay all winter, while, II
hatched in March, they will lay In
time to hatch ducklings from them by
the 1st Of October.
Good Conversation.
heard someone planning a lunch
con lately, and she said she'd selected
her topics-what the people would
talk about. She said she intended to
keep the ball rolling" Not dull
minute. Everything spicy and spar
king and bubbling. Talk about one
thing and then about another. Ring
the bell and change the course. Press
the button beneath the table and
bring on your spicy story, as the maid
brings on the salad. Lord! Lord!
what luncheon that must have been!
Who, alas, can be spicy to order? Or
bubble or sparkle or be brilliant or
even bright? These gifts are OF the
gods. Sometimes we are and some
times we are not, but it's cinch that
none of us are brilliant when we try
to be. Good conversation consists In
talk spontaneous. It has its source In
full mind and full heart. Do
hear some one saying, "And in a full
glass?" All, but even the full glass
brings out in talk only the native
wealth or poverty Of the talker. I'm
sure that must have been an awful
luncheon.-New York Press.