MARKETING 



while occasional individuals of any of the standard varie- 

 ties will also prove to be small or slow growers. 



Principal Markets and Market Demands 



The principal markets are, of course, the large cities. 

 The highest priced markets are those of the large cities of 

 the East such as New York, Boston and Philadelphia. 

 There are no special demands for particular classes of tur- 

 keys other than the fact that a medium-sized bird is in gen- 

 eral in greater demand than the larger birds. As these 

 latter are suitable only for exceptionally large families or 

 for hotel or restaurant trade after the Thanksgiving and 

 Christmas holidays the demand for larger birds is not 

 nearly so good and for this reason any exceptionally large 

 fowls should be shipped for one or other of these occa- 

 sions. Occasionally there is a demand for turkey broilers, 

 that is, young turkeys weighing two or three pounds, but 

 this demand is very limited and the supply of turkeys 

 which will be sold at this age is also very small. It will 

 ordinarily pay the turkey grower better to raise his tur- 

 keys to a larger size than to turn them off as broilers. 

 Sometimes late hatched birds can be disposed of in this 

 manner to good advantage. 



Most of the markets prefer dry picked turkeys and 

 while most consumers prefer a yellow carcass, still the 

 color of the skin and legs has little or no effect on the 

 market demand. In this connection it might be stated 

 that the Black turkey, contrary to the expectation of many 



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