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bringing your calls to town before you have fattened them poor, 

 sickly and thin breasted. Get them fat before you market them just 

 as you do your hogs and cattle. It will pay you. 



As a rule, there is more money to the farmer in selling his poultry 

 alive than there is in dressing it, and under these conditions, it is a 

 waste of time to dress the birds before marketing. This is particularly 

 true if you are selling your poultry to the local merchant or poultry 

 dealer. If you are shipping live poultry to market, you should have a 

 well constructed crate, which is equipped with solid cross partitions 

 to prevent the birds from being thrown together at one end when the 

 crate is tipped, in handling. 



A crate of well-fattened poultry. 



When the poultry raisers get to the point that they realize that 

 they should raise pure bred poultry and get their poultry in market- 

 able condition before attempting to sell it, and gather their eggs and 

 market them while fresh, it would be but a short while until eggs and 

 poultry would be in demand and commanding the highest prices in 

 every market in the United States, and our profits double what they 

 are at the present time. I know of a number of people who are taking 

 their culls from their flocks to their local poultry dealers and getting 

 five cents per pound above the market price because they are fat, 

 pure bred, of uniform size and color and in greater demand. The 

 price of eggs and poultry has been higher this year than was ever be- 

 fore known. They would be still higher if the market was not flooded 

 with the thin, blue-breasted poultry, and stale, spoiled eggs. For in- 

 stance, take two farmers who live side by side, Mr. A. and Mr. B. 

 B. has provided for his poultry, has good houses, has a place for them 

 to lay, and gathers the eggs fresh each day. A lets his poultry rustle 

 for themselves, roost in trees, lay in the weeds, and when he is ready 

 to come to town, shoos off the setting hens, takes the nest eggs and 

 all, gathers them from the weeds, fence corners and everywhere, any- 



