POULTRY FEEDS AND FEEDING 



MEAT VERSUS EGG PRODUCTION ON POULTRY FARMS 



A large amount of broilers and of roasters are produced 

 as a side issue on poultry farms in the rearing of pullets 

 for egg production and these sell at a fair price, especially 

 those produced early in the season. Many people have 

 been attracted by the high prices paid for broilers in the 

 winter months and have tried to make the rearing of 

 chickens, at other than the natural breeding season a suc- 

 cess, but without permanent results. Undoubtedly the 

 reason for this is the high cost and difficulty of rearing 

 chicks during the winter months, the competition with the 

 broilers produced as a side issue on egg farms and es- 

 pecially the competition with cold storage broilers and 

 roasters. 



Chickens are produced on general farms during the 

 spring months at low costs, are fattened and dressed in an 

 attractive manner and kept in cold storage until needed 

 for consumption, and when sold are in first class condi- 

 tion and compete directly with freshly killed stock. 

 Chickens can be kept in cold storage at very low tempera- 

 tures so that the depreciation in their quality is very 

 .slight while eggs cannot be kept in the shell at any such 

 low temperatures and do not compete to anywhere near 

 the same extent with the strictly fresh product. 



THE SOFT ROASTER INDUSTRY 



The soft roaster industry as developed in the South 

 Shore of Massachusetts, and in Pennsylvania and New 



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