10 BROILERS AND ROASTERS. 



cease coming, or to be worked out at any time the demand 

 indicates a profit atisfactory to the speculators who handle 

 them. The cold storage supply as long as it lasts has a 

 tendency to keep down prices on the new crop of broilers, 

 so that between the advance of the beginning of the season 

 of good supply of broilers from the farms, and the exten- 

 sion of the period in which this supply of broilers is avail- 

 able by putting the daily surpluses into cold storage to be 

 sold later, the season of attractive prices for the broiler 

 specialist has been somewhat shortened, and is now so 

 short that among those acquainted with the situation it is 

 universally recognized as the fact that the profitable way 

 to produce broilers is to make broiler growing one of the 

 lines of a general poultry business. 



7. Broiler Growing as a Feature of a General 

 Poultry Business. When conducted in this way broiler 

 growing is profitable. This does not mean that it invari- 

 ably pays a profit, or that anyone can make it pay. The 

 broiler grower must understand his business, and there 

 will be lean as well as fat years ; but taking one season 

 with another one who is fairly expert will make enough 

 on what broilers he can produce and market during the 

 period of high prices to make him feel satisfied with results 

 of his work in this line. It fits into a time when unless 

 one who has the equipment for artificial hatching and 

 brooding is growing roasters, that equipment would be 

 idle, and it works into a general business rather better than 

 the growing of large roasters, because the broiler grower 

 can have his broilers practically all out of the way before 

 beginning to hatch for stock purposes or to produce pullets 

 for egg farming. Growing broilers in this way is worth 



