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22 badly, and the eggs have a very nasty, strong taste—in fact, they are really uneatable. When duck breeders and keepers buy horseflesh they do not once give a thought as to what they are buying; if they did, I am sure they would not be so foolish as to purchase that which upsets their ducks and spoils their eggs for eating purposes. When a large flock of young ducklings are fed upon the diseased meat mentioned it gives the weaker ones diarrhœa so badly that many of them die within three or four days.

Those breeders who have several thousand young ducklings, and go in for buying horseflesh for food, usually buy the horse and have it killed on the spot; in such cases, of course, they know whether the horse is diseased or not. If it is a healthy horse I do not object to its being used for stock ducks as well as young ones. When horseflesh is used it should be cut up in small pieces, and thrown down to them. It is better not to mix it with the meal for the stock ducks, as it is very dry meat, and if it is mixed with the meal the ducks will frequently fetch it out and leave the latter in their troughs, or whatever they are fed in. In all cases where the meat is boiled for the ducks, the water in which it is boiled should be used for mixing up the meal, and in all cases during the winter it should be given them early in the morning, soon after daylight, as hot as they can eat it. They should be fed so they can clear every particle of it up. The attendant will soon know how much to mix, and when they leave any be sure and mix a smaller quantity next time. Of course, where there is only, say a drake and four ducks kept, it is well to use the refuse from the house