MANAGEMENT OF POULTRY 



can be secured from a plant housing 1,500 birds. 

 A great deal depends, of course, upon the skill 

 of the operator, and a plant of this size requires 

 the full time of one competent person. It should 

 be borne in mind that this net income is in 

 addition to the residence and such food as would 

 be taken in the form of poultry products and 

 from the garden. 



Sales Management. Every prospective poul- 

 try keeper should determine the marketing 

 possibilities for the product in the area under 

 consideration before he makes a choice of 

 location. There are at least four methods of 

 marketing eggs and poultry meat, any one 

 of which can be used exclusively or two or more 

 used in combination as a means of disposing 

 of the product to the best advantage. The system 

 that he will adopt will depend largely upon his 

 location, as well as upon his individual pref- 

 erence, and upon the facilities that are available 

 in the area where he operates. 



In many sections of the country there are 

 cooperative egg marketing associations where 

 the eggs are received in bulk from the producers, 

 are graded and marketed in large quantities, 

 the producer receiving the full selling value 

 less, of course, the costs of operating the dis- 

 tributing agency. In the northeastern states, 

 egg auctions have been very successfully devel- 



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