System and Forethought in Making 

 a Market 



CHAPTER X 



Up to the time of the present writing, Indian Runner ducks 

 have been kept so busy in supplying the demand for eggs for 

 hatching, that they have not had time to "bother" with market 

 eggs. The fact that the young grow to mature size in the short 

 period of something like twelve weeks has made it possible to 

 sell hatching eggs freely during two-thirds of the year, even to 

 northern breeders, while those who want eggs to go south will 

 take them at almost any time except in the very hottest months. 

 Some do not even make this exception. A letter received late 

 in November says: "I am fiUing some orders to southern cus- 

 tomers. The half-Waltons are doing a good share of the laying." 

 A note received in late October of this year from a well-known 

 breeder, mentioned just having taken off a fine hatch of duck- 

 hngs from the incubators, and said that he was still hatching 

 for himself every egg he could hold to. I do not think the 

 later hatched birds ever attain such good size, but they help 

 out while stock is still scarce. Among the early hatched birds, in 

 our own yards, we frequently have males which go a half-pound 

 above Standard weight. 



In the future, as the farms work more into raising Indian 

 Runners, there will need to be some systematic effort to make 

 markets which will take all the supply at a satisfactory price. 

 Considering the matter of price from the actual, intrinsic value, 

 since the eggs of the Runner average to weigh one-half more than 

 the standard, market hens' eggs, they should be worth one-half 



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