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Title: Turkeys, ducks, and geese
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Nourse, H. A. (Harold Alvah), 1875-
Subjects: Turkeys Ducks Geese
Publisher: St. Paul, Minn. : Webb Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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It is always more satisfactory to have the stuff sold be-fore shipping or at least partially placed. There are lotsof honest commission men perhaps, but it is asking a gooddeal of any man to expect him to hold the balance exactlytrue where he both buys the goods and makes the price.There is no doubt that a host of the dealers make a goodpart of their profits out of their pickings from the smalland occasional shippers. The things worth remembering in duck raising arethat a few ducks will pay for family uses, but seldom formarket; where there is a limited demand which can be di-rectly supplied by the producer there is money in ducks;where only a few are raised and they have to be shipped toa distant market it will not pay; the producer must limitproduction to what can be personally marketed or produceenough thousands to make a business which shall war-rant the outlay of considerable capital and time; betweenthese opposite points there is only trouble and most oftenloss instead of gain.
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a oO o a ao ow o « d © M•a H A PROFITABLE DUCK BUSINESS A Detailed Description of an Up-to-date Successful Duck Farm—The Manner of Hatching, Rearing and Fattening the Stock—Matters That Affect the Profits. By Arthur C. Smith. The Robinson Company of Massachusetts raises ducksfor the market. At present that is its sole business. Someyears 10,000 ducks are raised. These ducks are sold inboth the New York and Boston markets and have broughton the average one dollar per head. Authorities tell us thatit costs about 50 cents a head to rear a duck till it is 10 to11 weeks old, or to the marketable age. This would leavethe company something like $5,000.00 for its seasons work.You are astonished and ask if it is possible to make $5,-000.00 raising 10,000 ducks. Frankly, the writer does notknow, he has never raised ducks. But were you to allowhim to judge, he would say that should the business showa profit of 25 to 30 cents per duck, there would still be lefta good business proposition

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