HIGH-PRICED SPECIALTIES 



although the highest prices are obtained in 

 April and May; and in order to have birds 

 weighing five or six pounds each ready by that 

 time they should be hatched in September and 

 October. For this product the average price 

 is about twenty-three cents per pound, and at 

 this figure the net profit per bird, allowing for 

 a selling commission, would be about sixty-five 

 cents on a five-pound roaster. 



Both cockerels and pullets are fatted for 

 roasters. The sexes should be separated as 

 soon as the cockerels begin to annoy the pullets. 

 The method of feeding is the same as for 

 broilers, with the exception that only one mash 

 a day should be given until the birds are four 

 months old, when they should have two mashes 

 a day. 



There are many who do not shut their roas- 

 ters up in fattening coops; but the writer has 

 found many of the very finest flavored roasters 

 were those confined in fattening pens for two 

 weeks before marketing. Professor Graham 

 of the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, 

 Canada, who has been most successful in fatten- 

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