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i ? Page Ten THE CAROLINA UNION FARMER [Thursday, August 8, 1912. The Poultry Yard. THE PLAIN FACTS ABOUT INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS. We have been requested from time to time to write an article about these ducks. We have so far refrained from doing so as we wished to fully test their merits. Our experience has brought out the following. We had a small bunch of seventeen ducks last year that with just ordinary care and feed gave us 1,000 eggs in 100 days. This counted all eggs, soft-shelled and ill-shaped ones. We have found the Pencilled Runner to be the best layer of the three colors. We have also found that laying ducks require to be fed a certain way and with cer tain ration to give the best results. We have found Runners to be very easy to raise and free from diseases that ordinarily trouble chicks. While they consume more feed than difference, is little better in winter, and in addition are pure in color. They are becoming pre-eminently the fanciers’ favorite, as they have proved themselves to be “the most profitable and one of the most beauti ful of all fowls.” No other breed or variety in the poultry world today can make as much money as the White Runners. The profits derived from them are greatest of all poultry investments. As the main object is rearing of poultry is to make money, one must breed what the public wants. Eight White Runner eggs are equal to one dozen hen eggs and a White Runner duck will lay about one-third more eggs in a year than a hen with less care and expense. No expensive high fence to keep your pens from mixing or to keep them out of the first feed consists of stale bread crumbs and rolled oats, about equal parts. And to this about 5 per cent of -oarse, sharp sand. After a few days the oats and bread crumbs can lie dropped, and bran and shorts sub stituted, and at the same time a lit tle finely ground corn-meal can be added. When from ten to fifteen days old, a good ration is bran and shorts, equal parts, 10 per cent corn-meal, 10 per cent meat scrap, and 10 per cent green food. This ration should be given until ducklings are about three months old, and then they should be put on the laying ration. For the first two weeks we feed our ducklings five times a day, and after this only three times a day. We feed our layers twice a day, morning and night, on the following mash: Two parts bran, one part shorts, one part meal, and 10 per cent beef scrap, and in localities where you have little green stuff it is best to add about 10 per cent vege table matter. We feed the above insects. It has been found that they destroy more insects than any other fowl on earth. hens they lay better in proportion. They require so much less care than hens and less space. We have prepar ed a circular that deals with the feed and care of Runners, also the hatch ing of their eggs and the feed and care of little ducks. This is written from the results of experience. We will gladly mail one of these to any one sending us ten cents in stamps to cover cost of mailing and printing. We have sold thousands of these ducks, and not one person buying in twenty-five has written us complain ing of their failing to lay well, but on the other hand, we have hundreds of letters from reliable people who bought ducks from us praising them as great layers which we think is a great record and proves up that they are a great egg machine, otherwise we would have received hundreds of complaints. We will be glad to hear from any one not meeting with suc cess with Runners as we may be able to point out your error in either feed or care, as if properly fed and cared for they should outlay hens. MUNNIMAKER POULTRY FARM. Normandy, Tenn. WHITE INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS. The tremendous furore created by the Fawn and White Indian Runner ducks seems about to be duplicated or even excelled by the beautiful new White Indian Runner ducks. They are bred from the light fawn and white, and come truer to type and color than the famous variety. They have every good point of the fawn and white runner, mature just as quickly, forage as well, lay as well, or if any garden, as a two-foot fence is all that is necessary. They are quick growers, reaching market size in about eight weeks, and standard weight inside of three months. Their upright carriage, and peculiar running gait enables them to forage far and wide, and hustle a good living when at liberty, yet they may be easily and profitably yarded, as any grower of runners will tell you. They eat about half as much as Pekins, and are a better table fowl; lay far more and better eggs, their white shells and mild, agreeable fla vor finding the highest market prices in the most aristocratic circles. If served with hen eggs, no one can tell which is which by the taste. Their large size gives the only clew and fur nishes an additional recommendation. The best time to hatch depends on the climate. From March to August is best with us. Ducklings require less food and care, and grow more rapidly in warm and even hot weath er than in cool. The fertility of the runner’s eggs is usually high, germs strong, and they hatch well. As run ners are noa-sitterS, hens are prob ably the best method of incubation, but the eggs hatch well in incubators. They hatch at a slightly lower tem perature than hen eggs, and require more moisture and ventilation. In brooding ducklings do not require so much heat ae chicks, and do not re quire heat $0 long, but they need more ventilation. The brooder must be kept scrupulously clean. A layer of sand under the litter saves much work. We feed our duckling i;i about 36 hours after they are hatched. Their mash both winter and summer, and we have no trouble in getting eggs the year round. The White Indian Runner ducks are the most talked about bird in the \/orld to-day. Why? There’s a re."!- sou. They are greatest layers known, strictly a non-setter, the finest table fowl, easily grown, easily handled, easily cared for, scratch no gardens, they have no mites, no lice, no roup, no scaly legs, no frosted combs and the greatest money-makers in the world to-day. They are termed “the gold mine of the poultry world.” HERMITAGE FARM. Hendersonville, Tenn. SOME POULTRY NOTES. Don’t blame the poultry business when it is your own fault and care lessness that causes the losses. The price of profit in any business is eter nal vigilance. Don’t forget to provide a dusting place for your hens. It is nature’s vermin and lice exterminator and is very essential to the health and ap pearance of the flock. It is not harmful to feed the fowls with moistened feed, but if you feed sloppy feed you are treading on dan gerous ground. It ruins their diges tive organs and will, sooner or later, cause them and you considerable trouble. Guineas are not liked by most peo ple because of their noisy habits and wildness. But in return for this, they certainly repay the farmer by their immense egg yield and destruction of PAPERS MADE TO SELL. Hoard’s Dairyman hits the nail squarely on the head and voices tbf opinion of all good agricultural ed- tors and thinking farmers in the fol- owing: As we look over our agricultural exchanges and try to follow the vas' amount of stuff that is written W men who really and practically kno^ nothing of what they are talkini about, we do not wonder that th* farmer, who is a man of fact, noj fancy, if often disgusted with tW misfit advice he is getting. i “Such papers remind us of tb^ story we read in our boyhood, of a^ old fellow named Hodge, who soli razors. Finally one of his customer complained that he couldn’t do an)' thing with the razor he had bougW of Hodge. ‘It won’t shave,’ he sali Shave!’ replied Hodge. ‘It wasn’ made to shave; it was made to sell “The real, vital purpose with sud Cheap John papers and still cheap® editing is not the enlightenment o the farmer nor his safe and construc tive advisement. That is not the p’’ -'i pose at all. The real purpose is .' get the gullible farmer to take the p'^f per so as to sell the advertising spa ) to an equally gullible advertisei Farm papers, which depend for thd circulation upon fooling the farm® with trashy premiums, rarely gl'^- their readers any instruction wort reading or remembering. ‘They R made to sell.’ ” The title “made to sell” does nUf express the whole idea. These papet. are sold at a nominal price in ordi to make a showing so as to sell spaj to gullible advertisers. If adv*rtf ers could only see that a paper V which the subscriber will not pay ! advance at least the price of tl white paper and postage has litf value to sell to the legitimate adv® User, they would work a great r form in agricultural journalism, af mightily aid the cause of improvi' agriculture.—Wallaces’ Farmer. Tell your neighbor about big ofl on page eleven. He would like to one of those valuable premiums. “OCULUM 99 A Scientific Cure for Cholera, Roi^ White Diarrhea, Sore Head & Ca1% Recommended by the leading Poulj Journals and Poultry Fanciers of v country. i Extract from write-up in Relio\ Poultry Journal after watching m “Wonderful Work” of OCULUM two years: At the Madison Square Garden Show this year the Hancock Inocb latum Co., of Salem, Va., had a dis play booth and demonstrated th® worth of “OCULUM.” The preS' ident of the company took th* writer up on one oi the balconie* and showed him a game hen in*, coop No. 2340 which had won sei D ond. 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