MARKETING 



frigerator cars each of which will hold from 20,000 to 

 25,000 pounds of dressed poultry. 



Turkey Feathers 



In plucking the turkeys the wing and tail feathers are 

 kept separate in one bin and the soft body feathers in 

 another bin. The wing and tail feathers are referred 

 to in the trade as quills. Various other trade names are 

 applied to different grades of these feathers. At times, 

 depending upon the demand, white body feathers and 

 white quills are worth considerably more money than 

 the dark or mixed feathers and, for this reason, the 

 white feathers are kept separate in many establishments. 



Scalded feathers are not worth as much as dry picked 

 feathers. Likewise, feathers which are freshly packed 

 and therefore damp, not having been given a chance to 

 dry out, are likely to arrive at their destination matted 

 and musty or heated. Such feathers are not worth as 

 much and are discounted according to their condition. 



Turkey feathers have a variety of uses, the demand for 

 the different classes of feathers and for the various uses 

 depending to quite an extent upon prevailing fashions. 

 At certain times the white quills are in active demand for 

 millinery purposes while at other times, white quills are 

 almost a drug on the market and must be mixed with dark 

 quills in order to sell them to concerns which manufacture 

 feather dusters. Practically all dark quills are used in 

 the manufacture of feather dusters, these being split and 



