therwise they are
almost sure to heat and mold.

INDEX

A
Absence of crest in Crested White Duck, 34
African Goose, 156, 157
Age of
breeding ducks, 55, 123
breeding geese, 152
duck eggs for hatching, 72
ducklings for market, 96, 102, 136
green geese, 187
Muscovy duck, 31
Amount of feed
per pound of market duck, 95
for noodled geese, 197
Amount of land
for duck plant, 46
for goose fattening farm, 208
Arrangement of cars for shipping live geese, 202
Arrangement of duck plant, 45
Artificial water yards for ducks, 62
Aylesbury duck, 23

B
Baby ducks, selling, 78
Bantam ducks, 27, 29
Bean,
definition of, 13
black in, 22, 23, 35
Bedding
brood coop for goslings, 180
duck breeding houses, 60
duck brooder houses, 87
goose breeding houses, 168
pens for fattening geese, 195
Beef scrap, feeding, to ducks, 64
Bib in
Blue Swedish ducks, 33
Buff ducks, 36
Bill,
definition of, 13
black in, of Black East India, 29
Black East India duck, 29
Black in bean of
Aylesbury, 23
Crested White Duck, 35
Pekin, 22
Black bill in Black East India drakes, 29
Black
head, greenish, in Buff drakes, 35
head, in Fawn and White Runners, 37
in face of Muscovy, 32
plumage of Blue Swedish, 33
on head of young White Muscovy, 32
tail coverts, greenish, in Fawn and White Runners, 37
Bleeding
ducks, 105
geese, 206, 209
Blue
cast in Buff ducks, 36
Muscovy, 32
Swedish ducks, 33
wing bar in Buff ducks, 35
Body shape in breeding ducks, selecting for, 19
Braining geese, 206, 209
Breaking up
goose matings, 154
broody geese, 175
Breast-bone as index of age in ducks, 56
Breeding
drakes, securing, 58
ducks, opportunity to produce, 6
ducks, prices for, 7
season for ducks, 124
Breeds of ducks, 9
Aylesbury, 23
Blue Swedish, 33
broodiness of, 18
Buff, 35
Call, 27
Cayuga, 25
common or puddle, 9
Crested White, 34
East India, 29
egg, 11
egg production of, 15
Mallard, 10
Mandarin, 10
meat, 11
mule, 9
Muscovy, 29
ornamental, 11
Pekin, 21
popularity of, 14
Rouen, 23
Runner, 36
size of, 14
Wood, 10
Breeds of geese, 147
African, 156
Canadian, 159
Chinese, 158
common, 148
Egyptian, 160
Embden, 156
mongrel, 148
Sebastapol, 148
Toulouse, 155
Wild, 159
Brood coop for goslings, 179
Brooder
capacity on duck plants, 47
houses for ducklings, 80-90
Brooders for goslings, 180
Broodiness of
ducks, 18
geese, 152
geese, breaking up, 175