. SECTION UK THE DIXK , Thoiisaiid> of ducks are fattened each season on Niagara P'arni, going into the market in prime condition loaded, mixed and fed to stock without the use of a team for carting. One of the big mixing machines has a capacity of mixing up twenty bushels of wet mash at one time. There are two hundred colony houses, six hundred feet of heated brooder houses, and three hundred fireless brooders. The duck brooder house has a capacity of 25,000 ducklings at one time, and there are summer shades and shelter for as many more. The duck houses are immense buildings,
. SECTION UK THE DIXK , Thoiisaiid> of ducks are fattened each season on Niagara P'arni, going into the market in prime condition loaded, mixed and fed to stock without the use of a team for carting. One of the big mixing machines has a capacity of mixing up twenty bushels of wet mash at one time. There are two hundred colony houses, six hundred feet of heated brooder houses, and three hundred fireless brooders. The duck brooder house has a capacity of 25,000 ducklings at one time, and there are summer shades and shelter for as many more. The duck houses are immense buildings, one measuring 36 by 508 feet; the other, 16 by 450 feet. Ten tenement houses located on the farm are used exclusively for help employed. The buildings contain square feet of floor space. Besides the incubator cellar, with brooding-house above, which is believed to be the largest in the world, there are 1,500 feet of duck fattening shed, thirty-six feet wide; ice pond and ice-houses right on the
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