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POULTRY CULTURE 



oftenest overtakes demand. While the demand grows steadily, 

 production constantly tends to more rapid increase. As a result, 

 in the history of duck growing there has been, at quite regular 

 intervals, an overproduction followed by a temporary curtailment 

 of operations. While large duck plants flourish only near the 

 markets where the demand is good, producers of market poultry 



Fig. 56. Central grain storehouse Fig. 57. Section of house for breeders 



Fig. 58. Section of a fattening shed Fig. 59. Killing and packing house 



BUILDINGS ON WEBER BROTHERS' DUCK FARM 



everywhere find sale for some ducks at good prices, and when 

 good ducks are placed on a market, the demand rapidly increases. 

 Goose growing. Though less general than the growing of 

 ducks, goose growing is carried on by a few people in almost 

 every community. Throughout the greater part of the country, 

 geese are grown in these scattered (and usually small) flocks, 

 mainly for the Christmas market. In some parts of the East, 



