Preface and Acknowledgements 



This bulletin is the sixth in a series to be issued by the 

 Agricultural Experiment Stations in the New England States 

 and involves, in most instances, direct cooperation with the 

 Economic Research Service, U.S.D.A. The series is concerned 

 with various aspects of poultry marketing in New England. This 

 publication analyses the potential economies of scale in hatch- 

 ing straight-run broiler chicks, the cost of distributing broil- 

 er chicks, and the combined costs of an integrated poultry sys- 

 tem consisting of broiler processing, chick hatching, broiler 

 asseml)ling, and chick distributing functions. 



The authors appreciate the cooperation of the hatchery 

 operators who provided information and data on input-output 

 relationships and costs and those manufacturers and suppliers 

 of hatchery equipment and supplies who furnished data on 

 specifications, capacities and costs. The authors wish to ac- 

 knowledge the assistance and critical appraisal received from 

 W. F. Henry, of the Resource Economics Department of the 

 University of New Hampshire; A. A. Brown, of the University 

 of Massachusetts; and George B. Rogers, Marketing Economics 

 Division, Economic Research Service, U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture. 



