Mrs Basley's poultry book; tells you what to do and how to do it; the chicken business from first to last including 1001 questions and answers, relative to up-to-date poultry culture . ty per cent of quaker oat feed, ten per cent of boiled turnipsor potatoes, fifteen per cent of clover rowen, alfalfa, green rye orrefuse cabbage chopped fine and five per cent of grit. Feed twice aday all they will eat, with a lunch of corn and oats at noon; keepgrit and crushed oyster shells before them all the time. Air. Rankin adds: I wish to emphasize several points. Do notforget the grit, it is absolutely e
Mrs Basley's poultry book; tells you what to do and how to do it; the chicken business from first to last including 1001 questions and answers, relative to up-to-date poultry culture . ty per cent of quaker oat feed, ten per cent of boiled turnipsor potatoes, fifteen per cent of clover rowen, alfalfa, green rye orrefuse cabbage chopped fine and five per cent of grit. Feed twice aday all they will eat, with a lunch of corn and oats at noon; keepgrit and crushed oyster shells before them all the time. Air. Rankin adds: I wish to emphasize several points. Do notforget the grit, it is absolutely essential. Never feed more than alittle bird will eat up clean. Keep them a little hungry. See thatthe pens and yards are sweet and clean, for though ducklings maystand more neglect than chicks, remember that they will not thrivein filth. If any one fails in the duck business, it must be throughhis own incompetency and neglect. Mr. Rankin has his yards swept twice a week. These sweepingsamount to many tons each season, and are spread evenly over hisgrass farm, giving enormous crops of good hay, so that wheretwenty years ago only six tons of hay were cut, now the crop is125 Pekin Ducks Something About Geese Geese are, of all fowls, easiest to raise where grass is abundant,for they are grazing- animals. Among the various breeds raised inthis country the Toulouse is the most profitable goose to raise. Itgrows the largest, matures the quickest and is not so much of arambler or flyer as the other varieties, and as it does not take soreadily to water it grows more rapidly and accumluates flesh fasterthan other varieties, and is not so noisy. There seems to be a steady demand for the beautiful large, grayToulouse variety. They deserve every word of praise given have been known to live to a great old age. I have had afriend in England who had a goose that had been for more than ahundred years in the same family, and even at that age producedas many and as fertile eggs a
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