. American poultry world . actically all eggs are incubated by machineand the chickens are reared under pipes in hot waterheated brooder houses. In the South Shore section the bestof this high class poultry product is bought at the door ofthe producer by Mr. J. H. Curtiss, when the birds are in thebest market condition. The grower receives spot cash forhis birds alive, with no expense for cooping, dressing orshipping. In many cases he does not even catch the birds,the collector taking them direct from the poultry price ranges from twenty to thirty cents a pound alive,making a net pro
. American poultry world . actically all eggs are incubated by machineand the chickens are reared under pipes in hot waterheated brooder houses. In the South Shore section the bestof this high class poultry product is bought at the door ofthe producer by Mr. J. H. Curtiss, when the birds are in thebest market condition. The grower receives spot cash forhis birds alive, with no expense for cooping, dressing orshipping. In many cases he does not even catch the birds,the collector taking them direct from the poultry price ranges from twenty to thirty cents a pound alive,making a net profit above the cost of production, seldomequalled or approached in other lines of work. All soft roasters handled by Mr. Curtiss are dressed athis home plant and are sold on special orders to dealers inthe Boston market, who handle high class trade. Numer-ous other dealers do a more or less extensive business inthe same line and some few growers ship direct to marketthemselves. During the last two years a large live poultry. 14-lb. thoroughbred Light Brahma capon or soft roaster. This bird wassold alive at the growers door at 30 cents per pound. Value to the grower$ as meat! And yet the American Standard of Perfection says nothingabout utility values.—Ed. i6 AMERICAN POULTRY WORLD November, 1909 clearing house has been established at Boston by thefirm of Batchelder & Snyder, who operate an immensepoultry killing and dressing establishment in the heart ofthe market section of the city. This firm has a capacityfor handling 15,000 live fowls daily, and during the pastyear has been doing an extensive soft roaster trade, buyingthe birds alive and selling direct to consumers the freshkilled daily-dressed birds. To them we are indebted forthe following prices actually paid by them for soft-roastersalive from April 17th to July 24th 1908 and 1909. We aretold that the supply has always been short and that theyhad not found it possible to get enough first-quality softmeated roasting
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