Gleanings in bee culture . A. T. Root admiring his favorite Buttercup rooster last thing at night, and uncovered it at day-light. By so doing there was a saving infeed; but I soon felt sure the eggs were notuniformly as large. To get up a good-sizedegg every 24 hours requires good nourishingfood, and that without stint. Up to Jan. 1 I was boasting among theneighbors that I was getting four eggs a day. The duck that laid 100 eggs without a skip. together with her comrades, as they go out every iiIngonthe drainage canal. The two with the dark bills are ducks, and the two with yellow billsdrakes.
Gleanings in bee culture . A. T. Root admiring his favorite Buttercup rooster last thing at night, and uncovered it at day-light. By so doing there was a saving infeed; but I soon felt sure the eggs were notuniformly as large. To get up a good-sizedegg every 24 hours requires good nourishingfood, and that without stint. Up to Jan. 1 I was boasting among theneighbors that I was getting four eggs a day. The duck that laid 100 eggs without a skip. together with her comrades, as they go out every iiIngonthe drainage canal. The two with the dark bills are ducks, and the two with yellow billsdrakes. The drakes are also lighter In color. morn-bills are CIraniiiKK in Kee Culdii from four ducks right along; but on Dec. 31one of my laying ducks did not get home atnight with the rest, and Mrs. Hoot then re-minded me that one of our largest drakesfailed to return the day before Thanksgiv-huj. At the time, f explained it by sayingthe alligators must have taken him, as theywere gomg up the canal nearly half a mileevery day. By the way, Mrs. Root thoughtI had got it a little too strong when I saidnothing was ever stolen in our neighbor-hood, and remarked, Do you think it rea-sonable that an alligator would take a par-ticular fancy for a fat drake just beforeThanksgiving, and again for a duck just be-fore New Years day? Well, I still feel sure no one around herehas harmed my ducks; but if they rea
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