Preface and Acknowledgements 



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This report is the fifth in a series being issued by the Agri- 

 cuhural Experiment Station, University of New Hampshire in 

 cooperation with the Agricultural Experiment Station, Univer- 

 sity of Massachusetts and the Economic Research Service, 

 United States Department of Agriculture. All three agencies 

 contribute personnel, funds, or both to the several phases of 

 this research program. 



The series of reports is concerned with the economics of the 

 poultry industry in New England. Previous publications in the 

 series with their New Hampshire Experiment Station Bulletin 

 Numbers are: 1. Characteristics of the Processing Industry 

 ( 444 1 , 2. Economies of Scale in Chicken Processing ( 459 ) , 

 3. Capital Accumulation Potential of Broiler Growers (475), 

 and 4. Structure and Performance of the Assembly System 

 (476). Reports in process include 6. Economies of Scale in 

 Broiler Chick Hatching and Costs of Chick Distribution, and 

 7. Economics of Feed Mixing and Distribution. Two companion 

 reports published by the Agricultural Experiment Station, Uni- 

 versity of Massachusetts are: Freight Rates on Feed, Central 

 Territory Origins to New England and the Middle Atlantic 

 States (508) and Freight Rates and the Eastern Poultry Indus- 

 try (533). 



The authors acknowledge the contributions made to this 

 analvsis by Dr. Richard A. Andrews, University of New Hamp- 

 shire. Professor AKred A. Brown, University of Massachusetts 

 and Mr. George B. Rogers, Economic Research Sei'vice, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture were intimately involved with the 

 planning and conduct of the research reported in this bulletin 

 including critical review of the manuscript. 



