164 PROGRESSIVE POULTRY CULTURE 



customers up to something better and secure increase- 

 profit while eventually giving the buyer a more satis- 

 factory article. 



Certainly less profit and oftentimes loss results from 

 the bad appearance of eggs and dressed fowl because 

 of poor preparation for market. It costs but little if 

 any more to finish the products according to the skilful 

 methods of trained experts, and the prices thus secured 

 greatly increase the net profits. 



There is considerable variety in the kinds and forms 

 of poultry products offered for sale. 



EGGS. 



The first object of many keepers of poultry is to se- 

 cure an ample supply of nice, fresh eggs for home con- 

 sumption. Millions of eggs are thus used and never 

 come into the markets to be sold. 



Great numbers of eggs are also used for hatching 

 chickens to supply the table of the poultry-keepers. 

 Quantities of eggs for hatching are also disposed of to 

 parties who grow broilers and roasters for market. 

 There is further a large trade in eggs of pure-brei anv, 

 fancy fowls sold for hatching. 



The bulk of the eggs produced, however, go to the 

 great city markets. The demand is constant and the 

 supply is regulated to a considerable degree by means cf 

 cold storage houses which hold the surplus until necde:'. 



FOWL. 



The home table requires a large number of fowl of 

 those raised on the farms and in the yards of poultry- 

 men. 



Many pullets are sold to replenish laying flocks in 

 towns and villages, where the poultry-keepers find it 

 Inconvenient or impossible to raise their own chickens. 



There is also a large business done in selling breed- 

 ing stock to poultry-keepers who wish to improve their 

 flocks or desire to have pure-bred fowls only, in their 



