. Ducks and geese; a valuable collection of articles on breeding, rearing, feeding, housing and marketing these profitable fowls. Ducks; Geese. A BIG EASTERN DUCK RANCH. An Account of a Visit of the Editor of the Reliable Poultry Journal to the Duck Ranch and Broiler Farm of Mr. A. J. Hallock, Speonk, L. I. Information on the Breeding, Feeding and Management of Ducks for Market—Facts Worth HE editor's visit to the great duck ranch of A. J. Hallock, located near Spoenk, on Long Island, was a decidedly satisfactory one. Spoenk is a mere station, situated seventy- one miles from New
. Ducks and geese; a valuable collection of articles on breeding, rearing, feeding, housing and marketing these profitable fowls. Ducks; Geese. A BIG EASTERN DUCK RANCH. An Account of a Visit of the Editor of the Reliable Poultry Journal to the Duck Ranch and Broiler Farm of Mr. A. J. Hallock, Speonk, L. I. Information on the Breeding, Feeding and Management of Ducks for Market—Facts Worth HE editor's visit to the great duck ranch of A. J. Hallock, located near Spoenk, on Long Island, was a decidedly satisfactory one. Spoenk is a mere station, situated seventy- one miles from New York City. A few well- to-do Gothomites own country homes there- abouts, but much of the land lies idle, held by speculators. Mr. Hallock's place is something like two miles from the station, reached by a roadway that is as forsaken and pic- turesque as any country road to be found far inland, or even in the roomy west. Enroute to Speonk we saw from the car window several flocks of Pekin ducks yarded along the edges of ponds and streams, but we were not prepared for the scene which met our view when the roadway led us out of a strip of wood- land into an open space surrounding what proved to be the Hallock homestead and cluster of poultry buildings. A slow running stream ranging in width from twenty to fifty feet emerged from the woods to the left of the roadway and ran parallel with it seaward, passing two houses, one occupied by a Mr. Wilcox, the other by Mr. Hallock. In yards which ran down a sandy slope and extended into the stream were from 10,000 to 12000 Imperial Pekin ducks. The yards are 25 feet wide by 150 to 200 feet long, and from our point of view we could see practically all of them—about three-quarters of a mile of ducks! On account of their access to running water these ducks were snow white, and the old ones looked as large as fair sized Embden geese. It was a sight worth going far to see. Mr. and Mrs. Hallock were extremely kind. On their invitation we rem
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