Lilly's complete annual : bee supplies spray materiels poultry supplies fertilizers seeds . y other manner. If the birds are for retail customers, and are to beused within a few days, we would recommend thatthey be drawn, and head and legs removed, ready forroasting, similar to the picture at the top of thispage. In that case they will of course bring a higherprice per pound. If they are for market or cold-storage, they should be dry-picked only, not drawn,and there should not be a break or cut in the bodyor skin except the small cut in roof of mouth. This subject is a big one, and to give all
Lilly's complete annual : bee supplies spray materiels poultry supplies fertilizers seeds . y other manner. If the birds are for retail customers, and are to beused within a few days, we would recommend thatthey be drawn, and head and legs removed, ready forroasting, similar to the picture at the top of thispage. In that case they will of course bring a higherprice per pound. If they are for market or cold-storage, they should be dry-picked only, not drawn,and there should not be a break or cut in the bodyor skin except the small cut in roof of mouth. This subject is a big one, and to give all the detailswould require much more space than we have here,but this will have served its purpose if it caus~sthe poultrymen to become interested. To those de-siring more information, we would recommend thebook, Profitable Poultry Keeping, listed elsewherein this catalog. We will be glad to reply to any in-quiries, and to do all that we can to help improvethe present methods of marketing poultry. THE CHAS. H. LILLY CO. SEATTLE PORTLAND 15 * Fattening Food Makes Market Poultry Profitable. POULTRYMEN little realize how much they lose by surplus stock in a poor condition. Bone, muscle and feathersare the most expensive parts of a bird. When these have beenproduced, flesh may be added at small expense by feeding the rightkind cf food. Each additional pound of flesh produced not only bringsthe market price for poultry, but by improving the appearance and qualitymakes the entire bird bring a better price per pound. Stockmen wouldconsider it the height of folly to send their cattle and hogs to market inthe condition that most poultrymen market their poultry. Lillys Fattering Food would be useless for egg production, for thesame reason ihat Scratch Food and Egg Mash will not produce surplusflesh, but it will produce flesh quickly and at a cost which will make ithighly profitable. There are dealers who buy ordinary market poultry at the regular ft Seattle 3CRTLmarket pric
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