POULTRY RAISING 71 



quick learn this with a little practice. Have a pail of 

 cold water ready to wet your fingers and take the 

 feathers from the breast first and then turn it over 

 and remove the rest, taking all large feathers off. 

 They are then laid on a shelf for a finisher, which 

 generally gets three cents each, they clean them up, 

 then they go in tubs of cold water and later in a 

 barrel of ice water, from which they are packed in 

 barrels and heavily iced and shipped to market. 



As soon as your breeders are done laying about 

 July first, they should be sent to market alive. You 

 ■will never get more profit out of them as a rule. 



You can also make a fine profit selling duck eggs 

 for hatching at $8.00 per hundred. A duck plant can 

 make a fine profit if handled right, as sickness and lice 

 are not known in the duck business. Duck eggs do 

 not hatch near as well as hens eggs in incubators as a 

 rule, but you have no loss after they are hatched. 



