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Title: How we make ducks pay ... an illustrated guide to the profitable breeding of our modern Pekin all-white mammoth ducklings; plain and thorough lessons for beginners and others everywhere who write for the details and secrets of our waterless method..
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: American Pekin Duck Company, Boston
Subjects: Ducks
Publisher: Boston, Mass., American Pekin duck company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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t maybe estimated accurately that a duckling of market age,weighing five pounds to six pounds, will cost to producefrom thirty to sixty cents. The wholesale selling price is at least twelve cents apound, depending on the market and the season. Twelvecents is the lowest we have ever known it here, and thirtycents the highest. This means that each duck will be sold forsixty cents to one dollar and fifty cents. A duck whichhas cost the high price to produce will sell for the highmarket price; for this is the way the market runs. Thismeans that a profit of at least fifty cents a duck is going tobe made. Everything which we ever read on ducks con-firms our own experience in the matter of profits, and itwill be found invariably that the breeder shipping ducksto market, even on a small or large scale, makes thisprofit. The amount of profit depends on the number ofducks handled. What we say about the cost, selling price and profits ispositively and absolutely true. We hold no brief to boom 17
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DUCKS FOR BUSINESS the duck industry. We insist respectfully and mostearnestly that we have made, and are now making, theprofits which we say are in ducks, selhng to market only;and what we have done and are doing, others have doneand are doing. Our statements will find ready corrob-oration from any duck breeder who is really breedingducks, that is to say, who is actually turning them out andshipping them to market, and not playing with a smallflock for fun, or secondary to other work. In speaking of these profits, we do not estimate thesale of breeding stock. If you keep what you raise untilthey are of breeding age, and then sell them to yourneighbors, or to anybody, by advertising or exhibition,you will make more. Nor do we take account of the saleof duck eggs. Duck eggs are salable on account of theirlarge size and good cooking qualities, and many are in themarkets, but the big duck raiser has a better use for most ofhis eggs than the table; he has his incubator in mind. Hewants th

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