PRINCIPLES OF FEEDING POULTRY 



strictly fresh condition, especially where they are shipped 

 to the more thickly settled parts of this country. For 

 this reason commercial poultry farms devoted to the pro- 

 duction of high class eggs are able to operate profitably. 



While strictly fresh eggs have a value and quality 

 considerably exceeding eggs which are not fresh, poultry 

 produced on the farms can be marketed through the ordi- 

 nary channels, put into storage and sold in any section 

 of the country and at any season in direct competition 

 with fresh goods. Many chickens and hens are shipped 

 alive from the farming sections to the larger eastern 

 cities. Therefore the production of poultry flesh as a 

 specialty on poultry farms only offers in a few local sec- 

 tions the opportunities that exist in the production of mar- 

 ket eggs. The market poultry farms producing eggs 

 have been developed largely in the northeastern section 

 of this country within easy shipping distance of New 

 York, Boston and Philadelphia and to a less extent near 

 some of the larger cities of the eastern part of the Central 

 West and and northern part of the Southeast. 



Another section in which egg farming is a big industry 

 is on the Pacific coast, especially in central and southern 

 California. Climatic conditions appear to be especially 

 favorable for egg farming there and the industry has been 

 developed to the point where hundreds of thousands of 

 dozens of eggs are shipped annually to New York, while 

 a few go to other eastern cities. The constant growth of 

 the larger cities in this country gives the egg farmer assur- 

 ance of a constant demand for eggs at profitable prices. 



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