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poultry season. We could place stock of your quality to the extent of 
800 to 1,000 pounds a week.” 
2. “Ducks such as you breed usually sell here at sixteen to eighteen 
cents a pound. Our market prefers scalded stock. However, dry- 
picked stock keeps longer and better and can be sold all right. Poultry 
is sold here with heads and feet on, undrawn. Crops must either be 
empty or drawn. We will be glad to serve you.” 
In the winter-time, throughout the South, the hunters bring in 
to the markets wild ducks and sell them to the dealers for forty cents a 
pair. These ducks, small, skinny and rank-tasting as they are, sell 
readily to families. Tame ducklings bred from our stock would be a 
revelation to Southerners accustomed to eating the fishy, small wild 
ducks. Many of the southern dealers wish the tame ducklings shipped to 
them alive. 
It will surprise western people to learn that ducklings are shipped to 
the New York market from as far west as Iowa. We are in receipt of 
a letter from H. S. Webber, Iowa, stating that the duck breeders there 
are shipping to New York steadily. It is Mr. Webber’s opinion that he 
could ship a, great many more ducklings to the New York market pro- 
vided they were the equal of the ducklings now being marketed in New 
York. Duck food is cheap in Iowa and the whole 
Middle West, so much cheaper than in the East that the ak basis 
express on the killed ducklings from the Central States an UPPry: 
New York 
to New York would not amount to much in comparison. 
Six or seven years ago, the farmers in Illinois and other neighboring 
states received only six and seven cents a pound for their ducks, alive. 
Now they receive twelve and thirteen cents a pound, live weight. Con- 
sumers in the West have found out the fine quality and flavor of prop- 
erly raised ducks. That is one reason why prices have increased as 
they have in the East the past few years. 
Ducklings are handled by the Iowa dealers both alive and dressed. 
In Minnesota and Wisconsin the duck markets are very good. 
The markets in San Francisco and other cities on the Pacific coast 
are great ones for ducks, and big money is going to be made there by 
duck breeders. The people on the West coast spend their money freely 
and have the best of everything for their tables. 
The beef wholesalers handle an enormous quantity of poultry. We 
have the following letter from a leading one in Chicago: 
“We are at all times in the market for fancy ducks. There is no 
limit to the quantity we could use.” 
What is true of the above firm with regard to the demand for ducks 
is also true of the others of the great beef wholesalers. 
‘The best ducklings now in the Chicago and St. Louis and surround- 
ing markets are shipped there from New York. Anybody getting in 
now with good ducks in the Central States, and shipping to Chicago and 
the other cities there, will have abundant cause for congratulation. 
New York and Boston will take all the ducklings offered at what are 
now the highest prices in America. Those of our customers who ‘raise 
ducklings in New England, and in New York, Pennsylvania and other 
