$ [Dollar sign] 100,000 per $ [Dollar sign] 100,000 per year from poultry. The Curtiss poultry book, being a complete and accurate account of the great plant and present successful methods of W. R. and W. J. Curtiss dollarsign10000000boye Year: 1910 CURTISS POULTRY BOOK. 15 A OF DL'CKIJNGS URESSED READY KOR MARKET Niagara Farm makes it a point to dress carcasses in the most attractive manner The Pekin ducks on Niagara Farm are of large size, mature early, and average 140 eggs per duck during the season. The eggs are very fertile, rarely running below eighty per cent., and most of
$ [Dollar sign] 100,000 per $ [Dollar sign] 100,000 per year from poultry. The Curtiss poultry book, being a complete and accurate account of the great plant and present successful methods of W. R. and W. J. Curtiss dollarsign10000000boye Year: 1910 CURTISS POULTRY BOOK. 15 A OF DL'CKIJNGS URESSED READY KOR MARKET Niagara Farm makes it a point to dress carcasses in the most attractive manner The Pekin ducks on Niagara Farm are of large size, mature early, and average 140 eggs per duck during the season. The eggs are very fertile, rarely running below eighty per cent., and most of the time ninetv-five per cent, and even better. At seven to nine weeks old, the yoinig average five pounds each, dressed. Niagara Farm has bred the Pekin duck for fifteen years. Demand for Smaller Ducks Fifteen years ago Niagara Farm had a hard time to grow ducks to weigh four pounds each, but by careful selection their stock each year has improved, and by breeding more for size, it is now hard work for them to have ducks weighing less than five pounds—the weight generally running between five and six pounds. But gradually a demand increased for ducks weighing four to four and a half pounds each, and it became a serious question how to cater to that trade. So at present a test is being made with Indian Runner duck eggs, several thousand of which have been purchased. Some of the young were hatched at the time of the writer's visit, but not until next season can the Messrs. Curtiss tell if the Indian Runner will serve the purnose for what they intend or not. The chances are, however, that they will. The Curtiss people report this year (igio) as the best in their ex- perience for prices. During the winter of 1909-10, prices went so high as thirty-five cents a pound, and never less than twenty cents, and those prices, too, by the ton lot, sent to wholesale trade. As late as June, 1910, the prices still ranged from twenty-two to twenty-five cents per pound to the trade. The aim i
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