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BROILERS AND ROASTERS. 



their stock marketable when prices are highest. The reason 

 for this is the difficulty experienced in hatching chicks in 

 mid-winter. If all chicks needed for the best large roaster 



trade could be 

 hatched at that 

 time, a single 

 kind o f stock 

 ,*- could easily be 

 used to produce 

 both small and 

 large roasters. 

 The same stock 

 might not pro- 

 duce the best of 

 both sizes, but 

 the grower could 

 use it to good 

 advantage for 

 White Wyandotte Cock. both demands by 



grading dressed poultry according to size, or by selling a 

 lot as small roasters, or holding it to make large roasters, 

 as seemed in each particular case most profitable. There 

 is, of course, more or less of this done, but the growers 

 who make a specialty of large roasters find that to get out 

 what chicks they need to make sure of them they 

 must begin hatching in the fall, and use stock that matures 

 slowly, as Asiatics, or the larger and slower maturing 

 specimens of the American breeds. 



17. Using Mixed or Mongrel Stock to Produce 

 Market Poultry. If stock that is not thoroughbred 

 answers the description given for stock for the production 



