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or poultrymen for dressed chicken of special quality by 

 shipping direct to consumers. That is the best way and 

 about the only way to get full value for fowls of good 

 quality. 



Large quantities of live poultry are shipped both east 

 and west from the Mississippi Valley states and to a limited 

 extent from other sections. Many carloads of such poultry 



POULTRY HOUSE EXHIBIT 

 Part of an Oregon poultry demonstration train. 



are shipped from the central west to Pacific Coast points 

 and as far east as New York. Special live poultry trans- 

 portation cars holding from 4,000 to 5,000 fowls are used. 

 A man accompanies the car, doing the feeding and water- 

 ing from an aisle in the center of the car. A rental is 

 charged for the cars in addition to the freight. Another 

 important development of market methods is the purchas- 

 ing by the meat packers of large quantities of farm poultry 



