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How We Make Ducks Pay; An Illustrated Guide to the Profitable Breeding of Our Modern Pekin All-White Mammoth Ducklings Plain and Thorough Lessons for Beginners and Others Everywhere Who Write for the Details and Secrets of Our Waterless Method

How We Make Ducks Pay; An Illustrated Guide to the Profitable Breeding of Our Modern Pekin All-White Mammoth Ducklings Plain and Thorough Lessons for Beginners and Others Everywhere Who Write for the Details and Secrets of Our Waterless Method


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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1906. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER EIGHT KILLING, PICKING, SHIPPING How the picker uses first a knife, then a club.--Sharp knives necessary to remove some feathers--What the picker wears, and the wages he makes. -- Washing the bird. -- The process of tying the head under one wing.-- Plumping the duckling in tanks of ice-water.-- The shipping box.--Express pointers.--Use of barrels. --Not necessary to use ice.-- Distance possible to ship is almost unlimited. -- Choosing a commission man.--Shipping ducklings alive.--How to scald and pick ducklings.--Getting the food passage empty before killing.--Care of the feathers, how to pack and ship them. The killing is done by the picker, who stands, holding the duckling between his legs, takes a sharp knife, doubleedge, opens the mouth of the bird and cuts the roof of the STICKING KNIFE The duckling is killed with this knife. The blade is six inches long and one inch wide. The whole knife, handle and all, is ten and three-quarters inches long. The back should be ground and sharpened two inches down from the point, as well as the front edge, and the point should be kept sharp. duckling's mouth inside, making a cut of considerable depth so as to sever all the blood passages. Then he stuns the duckling by striking it with a club. This club is generally about eighteen inches long and not too heavy. Part of a wagon stake or a hoe handle answers very well. The bird is struck a good sharp blow so as to make it insensible. One blow is all that is necessary, although some pickers less skillful than others strike the duckling two or three times. The blow is aimed directly upon the top of the head with the club. The skull is not smashed. The bird is stuck before it is stunned so that the blood will run better. While the duckling is bleeding, the picker goes im...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781235178771
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 32
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1235178773
  • Publisher Date: 13 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 77 gr


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