and hatching eggs, amounting to 54 percent, and baby chicks amounting 

 to 16 percent of total pouUry income. 



In 1949, .$18,250,000 was received from the sale of eggs, not counting 

 the money paid to hatching egg producers in the form of premiums. Poultry 

 meat, both fowl and broilers, netted a return of $9,641,000 in 1949, or a 

 total of $27,891,000. In addition, returns for baby chicks totalled approxi- 

 mately $6,000,000. 



Table 1. Gross Income of New Hampshire Poultry Industry 

 by Categories and Percentages, 1944-49 



The poultry industry in New Hampshire increased at a slow but steady 

 rate from 1880 until 1940. At the outbreak of World War II expansion 

 became very rapid with an increase from 2,700,000 birds in 1940 to 4,213,000 

 birds in 1943. From this peak the number has steadily declined to 2,664,000 

 layers in 1950. 



Markets for Poultry Meat 



The size of the income from fowl is sufficient justification for an ex- 

 amination of this market as well as that for broilers. In general the ma- 

 jority of birds reaching the inarket from farms are either old birds being 

 replaced by pullets during the summer or early fall months, or cull birds 



from the laying flocks. When the old 

 birds are dumped on the market at 

 the same time every year, the price 

 is forced down. Cull birds are usual- 

 ly in poor physical condition and 

 most poultry men do not try to im- 

 prove their appearance before selling 

 them, which again leads to a lower 

 price for the birds than the poultry- 

 man might receive if a little effort 



Table 2. Receipts of Live Poultry on the 

 Boston Market by Origin, 1949* 



were 



used 



the birds' 



consuming 



*Compiled from information supplied voluntarily 

 by railroads and by principal wholesalers, jobbers, 

 chain store companies, and other first hand re- 

 ceivers (truck receipts). These figures indicate inter- 

 marlset shipment. Source — Dairy and Poultry Mar- 

 ket Statistics, Production and Marketing Adminis- 

 tration (P.M. A.), 1949. 



to improve 

 appearance. The largesi 

 center for New Hampshire is Boston 

 which is capable of absorbing all 

 the poultry meat currently produced 

 in northern New England. 



The shipping of live poultry is 

 limited to areas close to the Boston 



