Removing the Newly Hatched Ducklings to the Brooder House--Brooder Houses Required--Brooder House No. 1--Construction of House--Heating Apparatus--Pens--Equipment of the Pens--Grading and Sorting the Ducklings--Cleaning and Bedding the Pens--Ventilation--Other Types of Brooder Houses--Length of Time in Brooder House No. 1--Brooder House No. 2--Brooder House No. 3--Yard Accommodations for Ducklings--Shade--Feeding--Lights for Ducklings--Pounds of Feed to Produce a Pound of Market Duck--Water for Young Ducks--Age and Weight when Ready for Market--Cripples--Cleaning the Yards--Critical Period with Young Ducks--Disease Prevention--Gapes or Pneumonia--Fits--Diarrhoea--Lameness--Sore Eyes--Feather Eating or Quilling--Rats--Cooperative Feed Association. VII. Commercial Duck Farming--Marketing 102 Proper Age to Market--Weights at Time of Marketing--The Last Feed for Market Ducks--Sorting Market Ducklings--Killing--Scalding--Picking--Dry Picking--Cooling--Packing--Shipping--Cooperative 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