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That the rearing of poultry for market can be made profita- 

 ble, the committee could produce facts from well authenticated 

 sources, which should convince the most incredulous ; but they 

 will omit doing so in this report, and confine themselves to a 

 few statistical remarks. 



The article of poultry is readily converted into money, and 

 is probably quite as readily prepared for market as any other 

 aiticle of stock produced on the farm. The expense of feed- 

 ing the best stock is no more than would be the expense of 

 feeding and rearing the poorest dunghill fowl, while the return 

 shows a heavy balance in favor of the large-bodied and fine- 

 meated fowl, with little offal. 



Our convenience to the London market, by the aid of steam- 

 ers, weekly, enables the farmer, through the egg-merchant, 

 to make sale of his surplus eggs in that quarter. 



The amount of sales of poultry at the Quincy Market, Bos- 

 ton, for the year 1848, was six hundred and seventy-four 

 thousand four hundred and twenty-three dollars. The average 

 sales of one dealer alone amounted to twelve hundred dollars 

 per week, for the whole year. The amount of sales for the 

 whole city of Boston, for the same year, (so far as obtained,) 

 was over one million of dollars. 



The amount of sales of eggs, in and around the Quincy 

 Market, for 1848, was one million one hundred and twenty- 

 nine thousand seven hundred and thirty-five dozen, which, at 

 eighteen cents per dozen, (the lowest price paid eleven and a 

 half cents, and the highest thirty cents per dozen, as proved by 

 the average purchases of one of the largest dealer's books,) 

 makes the amount paid for eggs to be two hundred and three 

 thousand three hundred and fifty-two dollars and thirty cents. 

 And from information already obtained from other egg-mer- 

 chants, in the same city, the whole amount of sales will not fall 

 much, if any, short of a million of dollars, for 1848. 



