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Rh excellent thing, as in most cases it brings the birds on to lay. The powder not only helps in the production of eggs, but keeps the ducks in perfect health as well as assists the digestion of their food and helps to prevent them getting fat internally. In the breeding season, good wheat and French buckwheat I find are the two best grains to use for stock ducks, and I give barley and some good oats occasionally, but wheat and French buckwheat are my principal grains, and I always feed on the best I can buy; that is to say good sound oats, weighing not less than 42 lbs. to the bushel; wheat, rarely less than 60 lbs. to the bushel; and French buckwheat, not less than 54 lbs. to the bushel, and the boldest barley I can get. In cold weather I like to boil grain two or three times a week for the ducks' evening meal. Whenever it is boiled, the water should be about three inches higher than the corn when it is put in, whether it is in a saucepan or copper. In this case, the corn does not soak up quite all the water. Give it to the ducks just as it is, water and corn together. It may be given warm, but not boiling. This helps the growth of the eggs very much. When the corn is given dry, or uncooked, for the evening meal, it should always be put in water. If the weather is cold, I like to put it in warm water; the ducks can eat it so much better, and enjoy it so much more when it is given in this way. The troughs come in very useful for this purpose. Grit for digestion should always be put in the troughs with their water or corn—the importance of the flint grit renders it necessary to have a chapter to itself. If ducks are fed