Two poultry specialists of the United States Department of Agriculture describe the duck and goose industry of the early 1920s. They cover breeds and exhibition mating, choosing a site and equipment for a commercial duck farm, managing breeding stock, incubation, brooding, feeding, killing and marketing, with a second part on raising geese.
A detailed record of traditional waterfowl husbandry, useful to small-farm keepers and historians of agriculture alike. Download the free EPUB.