CHAPTER I 

 Present Extent of the Industry 



Duck raising while representing an industry of 

 considerable value to the United States when consid- 

 ered from a national standpoint, is one of the minor 

 branches of the poultry industry. According to the 

 1920 census there were 2,817,624 ducks in the United 

 States with a valuation of $3,373,966. As compared 

 with this the census for 1910 shows a slightly greater 

 number of ducks, 2,906,525, but their value was con- 

 siderably less being only $1,567,164. In the ten 

 years between the census of 1900 and that of 1910 

 there was a decrease in the number of ducks of 

 nearly 40%. 



According to the 1920 census the more important 

 duck raising states arranged in their order of im- 

 portance were Iowa, Illinois, Pennsylvania, New 

 York, Missouri, Minnesota, Teniiessee, Ohio, South 

 Dakota, Indiana, Nebraska and Kentucky. The num- 

 ber reported for Iowa was 235,249 and for Kentucky 

 99,577. New England, the North Atlantic, the East 

 North Central, the West North Central, the Moun- 



