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Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1912-09-29 | Page 32 | Pekin Ducks Are Popular Breed for Sale Purposes

Type issue
Date 1912-09-29
Paper Salt Lake Herald-Republican
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
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Article Title Pekin Ducks Are Popular Breed for Sale Purposes
Type article
Date 1912-09-29
Paper Salt Lake Herald-Republican
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Page 32
OCR Text I PEKIN DUCKS ARE POPULAR BREED FOR SALE PURPOSES PURPOSE Originally Brought From c n aJ but Improvement in SiZ Size t. t Color and Shape Distinctively American Achievement Achieve Achieve- j L i ment Eggs ment-Eggs Eggs Fertile Ie and Plentiful BY LOUIS P PAUL UL GRAHAM r Copyright 1 1012 1112 1 by the tho cOo company pEKIN pEKIN ducks as as their name I cates cotes were originally brought from China but their Improvement In size shapo shape and color has been distinctly dis dis- dis an American The cultivation of ot ducks for market haa has more than tripled In the tho last twenty years ears and the duck mo most t used for this purpose Is tho the Thoro There are a a. number of or farms In this country which hatch and market from to lo ducks every year Pekin duck eggs arc are very ven fertile and the they 10 lay plenty plent of ot them Theo Tho young oung ducks are rapid growers and can bo be marketed from tram the tho time the they reach the green luck duck age until full grown When hen full Cull grown the drakes drakos wel weigh h height eight pounds and th the tho ducks seven Boven pounds while many specimens have havo been raised that exceeded these weights In color their plumage go is white and their bills and legs orange yellow Their bodies are arc lon long and deep The drako drake Is IN distinguishable by the small email curled feathers just over oyer his main tall tail feathers A 4 Raising ducks is tho one ono branch of ot poultry culture In which plants of ot large largo capacity have been successfully developed These plants arc are perfectly systematized Tho The young oung ducklings are housed under sheds In flocks of ot uniform size an and l then the food and water Is supplied at Intervals with exAct ox- ox act regularity The ducklings their entire time to eating and gro growIng growing grow grow- ing and every caution is observed to protect them from any unusual oV alarming circumstance as us the growers rowers claim that every even fight or disturbance dis disturbance dis- dis causes causes cause tho the young oung ducks lucks t to lose a ll certain percentage of ot weight which amounts amount to a considerable lo loos s when totaled on tho the flock lock As Aa th the l main maln effort Is to grow the ducklings duckling as fast fost and as largo large as possible an and l market them promptly at the green i duck cluck age age ton ten weeks weeks many many of Hh h. h most successful duck growers refus to allow visitors on plants claim Ing that strangers alarm and the d ducks L-i L 1 Tho Thol market will pay as much fot tOi green ducks as they will bring later when full grown but as ns a a. mat matter ter of oC fact at this early carly ago much o ol tho ti-ic weight Is soft fat which cook OJ away Nevertheless epicures reUs thorn them and tho the demand enables tho duel due raisers to market their product at th earliest period at the weight of ot or six pounds and get as mu much h profi as they c could uld obtain later after feeding feed Ing them thorn until grown j 11 Duck growing has been practiced 0 OJ oi OJa a a. largo large scale In Long Island for tor halt half i century and In this district tho the farm aro are almost Invariably located o streams with yards ards for both stock and antl growing ducklings extending extend extendIng Ing the tho water In other section on the Inland duck farms It has haa bc bee demonstrated that ducks can be bo ral raise without water for any other than drinking although some due raisers insist on having swimming w wi ter for their breeding stock
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