. How we make ducks pay ... an illustrated guide to the profitable breeding of our modern Pekin all-white mammoth ducklings; plain and thorough lessons for beginners and others everywhere who write for the details and secrets of our waterless ed to beable to kill a duckling so that the feathers would come offeasier. His theory was that he had found a certain spotin the brain of the duckhng which when he ran his killingknife into it affected the nerves of the whole body of theduckling so that the feathers were, as it were, released bythe duckling. This seems silly to read but it is a
. How we make ducks pay ... an illustrated guide to the profitable breeding of our modern Pekin all-white mammoth ducklings; plain and thorough lessons for beginners and others everywhere who write for the details and secrets of our waterless ed to beable to kill a duckling so that the feathers would come offeasier. His theory was that he had found a certain spotin the brain of the duckhng which when he ran his killingknife into it affected the nerves of the whole body of theduckling so that the feathers were, as it were, released bythe duckling. This seems silly to read but it is a fact thatthis picker got his feathers off more quickly than hisfellows. He always ran the knife into the brain of theduckling from a peculiar angle. We do not vouch for thevalue of this information, but simply print it as a bit ofgossip of the pickers. Ducklings about to be killed should have their last foodat night so that their food passage is empty when killed thenext day. They can be given plenty of water to drinkbefore killing, but if the food passage is filled with grainwhen the bird is killed, this grain will ferment, sour, turngreen and spoil the flesh. If by mischance a duckling iskilled which has eaten and filled the food passage with. KILLING, PICKING, SHIPPING grain, the neck should be squeezed and the grain washedout through the mouth before shipment. The duckhngs do not lose weight between their lastfeeding and killing time provided they have all the waterthey want to drink. A large plant will kill and ship on an average two hun-dred ducklings a day, when busiest four hundred a average of three hundred fifty to three hundred seventy-five a day will keep nine pickers at work. Every twelve ducks will give up a pound of feathersworth on an average forty-five cents. This price mayvary in different parts of the country. We have beengetting fifty cents a pound this year — more than everbefore. There are feather buyers everywhere. Theiradvertisements may be seen
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