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Show THE SPANISH FORK PRESS, SPANISH FORK, UTAH Canada Institutes Bird Sanctuaries . - . , SMALL COST OF MODERN HIGHWAY DUCK FARMING ON EXTENSIVE SCALE Uany ar wont to sigh for the simplicity and economy of the good old r : : , Intensive duck arming on a large days." beaded see nation the the for They scale has been more successful than s on a waye of extravagant, commercial chicken raising, but the demand for table ducks at good prices public expenditures, not realizing that Is mostly limited to the large cities of for many of our superior advantages the East and Pacific coast It Is, we pay far less partly because there therefore, Important that duck farms are more of us than our ancestors be located "Within easy shipping dis- paid for ways that were far from betance of the markets In those sections. ing as pleasant or Contributing as A good location for a duck' farm Is on much to the happiness and fullness of a light sandy soil, with a gentle slope life. Take our public roads, for example. leading to a stream or pond, making In the first years after the colonies the duck It possible to extend pens Into the water. Ducks can be raised became a republic, funds vjere so at a profit on general farms, but un-d- meager and the people so poor that average farm conditions they do the commonwealth could not assume not pay as well as fowls. The Pekin the burden of road building. Instead duck Is kept almost exclusively by private companies were formed to commercial duck farmers In the build and nmlutaln turnpikes for United States who make a specialty which service they were authorized of producing green" ducks, that Is to charge, a toll for the use of the ducklings grown rapidly and marketed road, says the M;ilne Motorist. On June 14, 17SXI, the first turnpike when 8 to 12 weeks old and ranging In company In New Hampshire was orweight from 4 to 6 pounds. The Runner Is the most popular ganized. A schedule of tolls running breed for the production of market from one cent per mile for every ten eggs, but the demand for ducks eggs sheep or hogs up to three cents per at attractive prices Is very limited. mile for wagons, stages, private carAbout Easter time these eggs usually riages and like conveyances drawn by bring several cents more per dozen horses was legally permitted the than hens eggs, but during the reThese old roads were very poor. mainder of the year the prices differ but slightly. The pure white eggs or- Ruts were left-- unsmoothed, bridges dinarily command a premium. As egg sagged and fell In; vehicles were producers, ducks are as a rule less mired In the mud holes. Yet the toll companies claimed their returns were profitable than hens. Green ducks are marketed from so small they could not afford repairs. motorist Imagine a present-daApril to November, the prices being highest eurly In the spring and de- traveling over one of these roads and creasing as the season advances. On being stopped every two or three the New York market preference Is miles by a gate which he could not given ducks weighing pounds. No pass without paying a toll. Compare this with the cost of travheld should be after the ducklings long wing feathers have reached their eling on a modern, paved highway. full length, as the ducks reach their It will surprise many to learn that our modern highway Is the cheaper of the best condition at that time. In slaughtering for market the live two far cheaper.. A hard surfaced pavement today birds are hung up by their feet In a row and a weighted hook Is caught costs about $27,000' per mile. Grading, through the nostrils to facilitate bleed- draining, fencing, etc., bring the cost ing. The ducks are stuck In the roof of the whole Improved road to about of the mouth or through the throat, $35,000 per mile, the actual cost decutting the artery with a knife having pending upon the locality where It Is a narrow blade four Inches long, and built and the amount of grading restunned by piercing the brain, turning quired. At 0 per cent the yearly Inthe knife slightly. They may be either terest on this total cost Is $2,100. The scalded or dry picked, scalding being sum which must be put aside each the most common method and the one year to replace the pavement at the. used exclusively for the New York end of 20 years Is $000. Maintenance market. If the birds are to be scaldmay be estimated at $200 a year. The ed, It Is Important that this be done total yeurly cost of a mile of modern as soon as they have finished bleeding, pavement Is then $3,207. If an average of only 500 vehicles and that the water be Just below boiling, as water too hot discolors the per day passes over the mile of Imflesh. The long tall feathers are left proved pavement the cost then Is on the ducks, the wings are picked to only 1.73 cents per vehicle per mile. This Is but little more thun half what the first joint, and the neck half-wato the head. Long pinfeathers usual- our ancestors used to pay to travel ly are removed with a dull knife, and the mud and dust and ruts of the good old days." the down sometimes rubbed off with the moistened hand, or It may be burned with alcohol or 6haved with Great Road Planned in a very sharp knife. Cuba for Automobiles After picking, the birds usually are washed and put Into Ice water for an Provision for construction of a cenan hour or two to cool and plump. tral highway system to extend the Each layer of ducks Is packed flat In length of the Island of Cuba Is looked Ice, In barrels, ordinarily with the upon ns the beginning of an automokeels or breasts down. A layer of bile boom there. crushed Ice Is put on the bottom of The new highway Is to be 500 miles the barrel, and on thlb a layer of loug, running from Ilnuro del Rio at dressed ducks. Alternate layers of the western end of the Island, through ducks and ice are added until the bar- Havana to Santiago, at the other end. rel Is nearly full. The top of the It will form a veritable backbone from barrel Is filled with a layer or header which will radiate branch roads to of Ice. other Important centers. The cost of the project Is estimated at more than $380,000,000. It Is Early Hatched Chickens work will be comOften Crowded for Room pleted Inthatfourtheyears. The early hatched chickens are getThe better highway system, dealers ting crowded for room; mites and lice believe, will bring an Increase of at nre multiplying; crows, chicken least 250,000 motor car owners and hawks and gray squirrels are searchraise the motoring ratio to an autoing for tender meat. Constnnt vigimobile for every 10 persons. lance against natural enemies Is the Transportation and gasoline tnxe only way to harvest your chicken are to be Imposed to defray part ol Is never a season of let the crop. There expenses of construction and fit g up for the grower of thrifty, lure maintenance of the hlghwnys chicks. One night of crowdOther taxes will bring up the revenut ing will put them hack a month; one for this purpose to about $20,000,000 s house neglected will spread the lice year, and It Is expected the cost ot and mites, but we get paid for our the entire project will be covered in time when the cockerels go to marthis wuy in 12 years. ket. and the pullets begin to lay. That pullets can lay we know, rOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOC whether they will luy enough eggs to pay for their keep depends on watch- j ing the details, and heading off trouble by care. A hard gravel road offers about ns much resistance as an as twice . Improving the Flock phnh road. Many poultry keepers are successful In Improving their flocks by pnylng The University of Michigan Is to hi careful attention to the type of birds offered' an endowment for the estabthat they use us breeders. If your lishment of a highway transport and own stock Is not satisfactory It may highway traffc engineering school. he more economical to purchase new stock than to attempt to Improve your Recouse of the popularity of motoi own. However, be sure thut the new no fewer than 73 ntlle transportation, stock Is superior to yours and when of new streeta have been built In Is stock once a satisfactory obtained, London In the last live years, while do not destroy It by constantly bring under project or conore more 15 lug new blood. Keep them from verstruction, min and discuses. (Prepared by the United Stetee Department ( Agriculture.) , . . bow-wow- With the progress of settlement the Canadian prairies are losing those special characteristics generally assoTbelr isolation, ciated with them. their treelessness, their lack of social amenities, are becoming things of the Dependable 1 The greatest thing about a Ford is the Way it keeps going, even under the worst conditions. The .depend ability of Champion Spark-Plugwhich have been past Yet certain developments need to be regulated. Tor example, tbe Department of the Interior has Just set aside a number of public shooting grounds, and has added eleven bird sanctuaries to those already established. These regions contain the most Important breeding grounds on the American continent for wild fowl, which, from time Immemorial, bavo found In marsh and reedy lake food and security. The advent of civilization, with Its attendant draining of swamps, tends to reduce the size of the breezing grounds and this, together with Increased facilities for sport, has reduced the number ot birds to.nn alarming extent, some species, indeed, being threatened with extinction. standard Ford equip ment for 14 years is an integral part of Ford de pendability.' ?r cont-pun- y. y Convenient for Autoists still quenches thirst, cools the parched throat and by its lightful flavor and refreshment restores the joy of life. 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