rative
Marketing Association--Prices for Ducks--Shipping Ducks
Alive--Saving the Feathers--Prices and Uses of Duck
Feathers--Marketing Eggs.
VIII. Duck Raising, on the Farm 120
Conditions Suitable for Duck Raising--Size of
Flock--Making a Start--Selecting the Breed--Age of
Breeding Stock--Size of Matings--Breeding and Laying
Season--Management of
Breeders--Housing--Feeding--Water--Yards--Care of Eggs
for Hatching--Hatching the Eggs--Brooding and
Rearing--Feeding the Ducklings--Water for
Ducklings--Distinguishing the Sexes--Marketing the
Ducks--Diseases and Insect Pests.

PART II--GEESE
IX. Extent of the Industry--Opportunities 141
Nature of the Industry--Opportunities for Goose
Raising--Goose Raising as a Business for Farm
Women--Geese as Weed Destroyers--Objections to Geese.
X. Breeds and Varieties--How to Mate to Produce Exhibition
Specimens--Preparing Geese for the Show--Catching and
Handling 147
Breeds of Geese--Nomenclature--Size--Popularity of the
Breeds--Egg Production--Size of Goose Eggs--Color of
Goose Eggs--Broodiness--Size of Mating--Age of
Breeders--Marking Young Geese--General Considerations in
Making the Mating--Making the Mating--The Toulouse--The
Embden--The African--The Chinese--The Brown Chinese--The
White Chinese--The Wild or Canadian--The
Egyptian--Preparing Geese for the Show--Catching and
Handling Geese--Packing and Shipping Hatching
Eggs--Prices for Breeding Stock.
XI. Management of Breeding Geese 164
Range for Breeders--Number of Geese to the Acre--Water
for Breeding Geese--Distinguishing the Sex--Purchase of
Breeding Stock--Time of Laying--Housing--Yards--Feeding
the Breeding Geese.
XII. Incubation 172
Care of Eggs for Hatching--Methods of Incubation--Period
of Incubation--Hatching with Chicken Hens--Hatching with
Geese--Breaking Up Broody Geese--Hatching with an
Incubator--Moisture for Hatching Eggs--Hatching.
XIII. Brooding and Rearing Goslings 178
Methods of Brooding--Brooding with Hens or Geese--Length