for feathers, 212
Location
of duck plant, 42
of goose fattening farm, 208
Lopped crest in White Crested ducks, 35
Loss
in ducklings, 98
in geese during shipment, 202
Lost, goslings becoming, 182
Lots, fattening, for geese, 203

M
Making a start in duck raising, 121
Making new goose matings, 154
Mallard duck, 10
summer plumage of males, 25
Mandarin duck, 10
Marketing
duck eggs, 118, 136
ducks, 102, 135
Markets for geese, 187
Marking
ducklings, 12
goslings, 153
Mating
ducks, general considerations in, 18
geese, general considerations in, 154
Meat class of ducks, 11
Mixing feed
for ducks, 65
for fattening geese, 204
Moisture
for duck eggs during incubation, 76, 131
for goose eggs during incubation, 176
Molt of ducklings as indication of market condition, 102
Mongrel goose, 148, 201
Mortality
of breeding ducks, 69
of geese during shipment, 202
Mosquito larvae, destruction of, by ducks, 8
Mule ducks, 9
Muscovy duck, 29

N
Narrow shoulders
in Call ducks, 28
in Pekin ducks, 22
Nest, preparing the, for hatching goose eggs, 173
Nomenclature
of ducks, 12
of geese, 149
Noodles, making, for fattening geese, 197
Noodling geese, 196
Number
of breeding ducks required, 46
of ducklings marketed per breeding duck, 46
of ducklings to a pen, 85, 90
of ducks in leading states, 3
of ducks in U. S., 3
of ducks to a drake, 57
of geese carried on fattening farms, 208
of geese in leading states, 141
of geese in U. S., 141
of geese noodled by one man, 198
of geese to the acre, 164
of times
ducklings are fed, 92
geese are fed on fattening farms, 203
noodled geese are fed, 197
pen fattened geese are fed, 195

O
Objections
to duck farms, 43
to geese, 145
to goose fattening farms, 208
Odor from goose fattening farms, 208
Opportunities
for duck raising, 4
for goose raising, 142
Ornamental
purposes, ducks for, 7
class of ducks, 11
Output of duck plants, 42, 45
Oyster shell, feeding,
to breeding ducks, 66
to breeding geese, 170

P
Packing dressed
ducks for shipment, 109
geese for shipment, 211
Packing
duck hatching eggs, 40
goose hatching eggs, 162
Pasturing
geese, 164
goslings, 183
Patte de fois gras, 199
Pay for picking
ducks, 107
geese, 207
Pekin duck, 21
Pekin duck on commercial plants, 42
Penciled Runner duck, 37
Penciling in
Buff ducks, 35
Fawn and White Runner females, 37
Rouen females, 25
Penciling, lack of, in Pen