Archive image from page 52 of The Curtiss poultry book $100,000. The Curtiss poultry book. $100,000 a year from poultry; being a complete and accurate account of the great plant and present successful methods of and Curtiss, operating the Niagara poultry farm of Ransomville, , largest general poultry enterprise in the world curtisspoultrybo00boye Year: 1911 ( CURTISS POULTRY BOOK. 49 DUCK KILUNG AT NIAGARA FARM Two rows of ducklings are hung up at a time, securely fastened by wire, and the ' executioner ' does his deadly work in a very few minutes The ducklings are then stabb
Archive image from page 52 of The Curtiss poultry book $100,000. The Curtiss poultry book. $100,000 a year from poultry; being a complete and accurate account of the great plant and present successful methods of and Curtiss, operating the Niagara poultry farm of Ransomville, , largest general poultry enterprise in the world curtisspoultrybo00boye Year: 1911 ( CURTISS POULTRY BOOK. 49 DUCK KILUNG AT NIAGARA FARM Two rows of ducklings are hung up at a time, securely fastened by wire, and the ' executioner ' does his deadly work in a very few minutes The ducklings are then stabbed in the mouth, the blade penetrating the brain, very much on the style used for killing the broilers and the roasters. For the purpose of killing the ducks, a butcher's knife is used. The ducklings are then scalded and at once picked. Shipment is made in the same manner as with other poultry. The Baby Chick Trade Hatching and shipping baby chicks is one of the specialties at Niagara Farm. Thousands of these are turned out and sold during the season of early spring to way late in summer. On the occasion of the writer's visit, a single shipment of 2,000 chicks was made in lots of fifty to several hundred, to points in Virginia, Illinois, New York, Maryland and Michigan. The shipments are made in corrugated pasteboard boxes, with cor- rugated pasteboard pads placed in the bottom of each box. Each box has from one to four compartments, measuring eight and a quarter by ten inches each, in which twenty-six chicks are snugly packed. In these boxes a lot of holes are punched, on the top and the sides, to admit air. The boxes are so strong that they will bear the weight of a man weigh- ing two hundred pounds. Where more than one hundred chicks go to the same party in one shipment, the boxes are placed in carriers. Each box and carrier is labelled 'Live Chickens' in large red let- ters, so that there can be no misunderstanding as to the contents. This branch of the business of Niagara
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