ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF POULTRY CULTURE 53 



opinion that ducks are grown with less labor on the coast farms ; 

 but it would be a very difficult matter to determine any point of 

 this kind in a comparison which, to be accurate, would have to con- 

 sider the personalities of the proprietors, as well as other points 



Fig. 54. Fattening sheds at Weber Brothers' farm. (From the east) 



affecting results. Some of the coast farms have been used for duck 

 growing for over half a century, and some of the largest inland farms 

 for twenty-five or thirty years. When developed on a very large 



Fig. 55. Fattening sheds seen in Fig. 54. Five thousand ducks feeding. 

 (From the west) 



scale, duck growing is usually an exclusive business. On a smaller 



scale it is usually combined with other branches of poultry culture. 



As might be inferred from the comparative ease of developing 



the business, it is the branch of poultry culture in which supply 



