. Our domestic birds; . Fig. 136. Fattening sheds and yards VIEWS OF WEBER BROTHERS DUCK FARM, WRENTHAM,MASSACHUSETTS 149 150 OUR DOMESTIC BIRDS As would be expected, the success of the big duck farms hasled many people with large capital to undertake to establishduck farms on a still larger scale. But these undertakings donot last long, because it is practically impossible to secure forsuch a plant an organization as efficient as one developed bythe owner of a plant which has grown from small beginningsunder his own management. Description. A large duck farm is a very interesting place at any
. Our domestic birds; . Fig. 136. Fattening sheds and yards VIEWS OF WEBER BROTHERS DUCK FARM, WRENTHAM,MASSACHUSETTS 149 150 OUR DOMESTIC BIRDS As would be expected, the success of the big duck farms hasled many people with large capital to undertake to establishduck farms on a still larger scale. But these undertakings donot last long, because it is practically impossible to secure forsuch a plant an organization as efficient as one developed bythe owner of a plant which has grown from small beginningsunder his own management. Description. A large duck farm is a very interesting place at anytime, but is most interesting at the height of the growing season, ._». Fig. 137. Duck house and yards on seashore, Fishers Island, New York when all the operations in the business are going on at the sametime. The total number of birds on a farm at any time is verymuch less than the product for the season, because the first duckshatched will have gone to market before the eggs which producethe last are laid, but in flocks of more than 10,000 the impressionon the visitor is much the same, no matter what the numbers. Duck farms are of two types : those located on streams orinlets have the yards for all but the smallest ducks partly in thewater ; the inland duck farms, on which the young ducks grownfor market are given no water except for drinking. Some ofthe inland farms give the breeding stock access to streams and MANAGEMENT OF DUCKS 151 ponds only during the molting season, when they can be allowedto run in large flocks and a small area of water will serve forall. For a time after the large inland duck farms were firstestablished it was claimed by many
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