The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1914-04-03

en- weigh two pounds in ten weeks.
The meat is delicious.
A certain little flock of farm ducks,
in Which i have been much interested
as their record climbed and continued
to climb during 1911, was reported as
having laid exactly 200 eggs average
in the ten months between January
10 and November 2S, 1911.
These birds are owned by Mrs. Mol
lie McClaughry Allen of Oswego, N.
Y. who has done quite little accept
able institute work in the past They
are of the English-bred penciled stock
White Runner as Favorlts.
There are many Of the more proml-
nent poultry-raisers of the country
who believe that the White Runner
will take the popular fancy as no 9TH
or Runner has yet done. Nearly
every buyer is eager in praise OF
them. One. whose letter comes in
today, says: 81 love them; they are
very shapely, trim as trivet,' all OF
which Is right in line with American
ideals"
Although happier on the water, the
Runners are really most attractive
on land. 1t Is to be understood
that these poses are not the usual
travelling carriage, but are the poses
Of alertness upon danger or something
especially interesting appearing.
The English standard asks for a
carriage of 90 to 65 degrees when in
motion. 1t will help to Judge of this
IL we remember that the diagonal of
square is 45-degree line. Draw a
line from one corner of a square to
another and you have body angle
of most of the Runners as saw them
at this show. AS these were selected
birds, it will be seen that a bird OF
this carriage when not alert Is a pref
ty fair bird.
Feeding Runners.
One OF the especially good points Of
the Runners, as the farmers look at 1t,
is that il can occupy waste grounG
and get much OF its living from 1t,
and when 1t has to be fed, will eat
cheap foods such as clover, bran, cut
green stuff (when confined), etc. Milk
Is one OF the best meat producers, and
can be used when meat is not avail
able.
To get a three-ounce egg from each
duck five and six { VS. out of the
week, which is common enough at the
height Of the season, makes any poul-
try-keeper feel as though he were re-
ceiving something for his pains.
Runner breeders have shown their
faith In what they were producing,
by sending eggs for personal testing
to editors of several Of our poultry
papers. l have seen no report un-
favorable to these eggs. All spoke
OF them as perfectly sweet and
scarcely to be told from hens eggs,
by the table test. Miller Purvis, Mrs.
Grant M. Curtis and the editor OF the
Poultry Success are among those who
have reported favorably to the Run
ner eggs.
One correspondent writes me that
he took into town some eggs to be
photographed, and people begged to
buy them until he had none to take
home, while other orders followed him
home. All this when he was trying
not to sell them.
The Indian Runner Is going all
over the South on the dead run" max
ing place for itself. Progressive
farmers and poultry men there see
that here may be the best opportun.
ity OF their lives. A large number OF
people are raising them as "dry-land
ducks" with only pals and tubs for
supply of water.
This means much work, as ducks
need water all the time, and they
waste considerable. People are max.
ing money with them on this basis,
but II Is not as easy money" as where
they can take care Of themselves on
pond or stream as soon as well feath.
cred.
A concrete pond is a good solution
of this matter II there Is slope enough
to drain 1t properly and water enough
near to pipe into IL