Turkeys, ducks, and geese . a cisternmade of an oil barrel where a man can dip his bucketsto the brim and is not obliged to wait for them to fillfrom the faucet. This is a simple device, but one of thebest labor savers that I noticed. The close proximity to the Boston market has provedvery advantageous. The catalogue states that they shipto Boston at one cent per duck. The plant has telephoneconnections and this enables this company to be in closetouch with the market. While this is a market business,breeding stock is sold if engaged ahead. None are held 88 TURKEYS, DUCKS AND GEESE unless enga
Turkeys, ducks, and geese . a cisternmade of an oil barrel where a man can dip his bucketsto the brim and is not obliged to wait for them to fillfrom the faucet. This is a simple device, but one of thebest labor savers that I noticed. The close proximity to the Boston market has provedvery advantageous. The catalogue states that they shipto Boston at one cent per duck. The plant has telephoneconnections and this enables this company to be in closetouch with the market. While this is a market business,breeding stock is sold if engaged ahead. None are held 88 TURKEYS, DUCKS AND GEESE unless engaged. It is not good business to keep any stockfor which you have no use beyond the time when it canbe sold and they do not do it here. The results that are obtained here may be obtained any-where that a market for dressed ducks can be found, orreached without shipping to a great distance. Home or near-by markets are best and most profitable. To raise the ducksis not difficult; to sell them at good prices is the main Aylesbury Ducks. EXTENSIVE DUCK RAISING. Duck Growing as a Business—One Hundred Acres Devoted to the Production of Thousands of Market Ducks— Descriptions of the Incubator House, the Brooder Houses and their Equipment —Feeding the Ducklings— Killing and Marketing. By Frank G. Thayer. To the observer the sight of thousands of Pekin ducksis one not to be forgotten. At the same time there is nopoultry establishment where visitors are less desired thanon a large duck farm. The Pekin duck is probably themost timid of all domesticated ducks, and strangers as arule are prohibited from visiting on this account, as allstampeding, scaring or otherwise disturbing the duckcauses loss in flesh, vitality and profit. The duck business of today is probably one of the mostfirmly established profit paying branches of poultry hus-bandry. But there is no branch of poultry farming wherefailure is so certain when proper methods are not requires a large outlay
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