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These dealers handle a very large share of the live broiler business in 

 New York, and it is thought that their receipts are representative in 

 price and volume of the total live broiler receipts on that market. 



While the production of broilers during the late spring and summer 

 months is an old phase of the poultry business, the raising of winter 



6 13 a) C7 3 10 17 M 1 6 16 J2 £9 6 13 (t) J7 3 10 17 f4 3 10 17 f4 31 7 14 fl ffl 5 12 19 f6 ? 9 lb D 30 7 14 H £8 4 1118 E6 1 6 I5^^ fS 

 Oct Nov Dec, Jan Tea Mar Apr May June July Aug 5tPT. 



Fig. 1. — Live broiler price quotations on New York market from Jan. 1921 to 

 Sept. 1924, inclusive. Top ciuotation on each Thursday of "colored broil- 

 ers", "broilers" or "chicken broilers." (Source — New York Producers' Price 

 Current) . 



and early spring broilers on a large commercial scale is a relatively new 

 development. Until recent years the live broilers sent to New York 

 were largely young cockerels or pullets culled from those kept for the 

 laying flock. Since 1921, however, the major interest of broiler produc- 

 ers has been in the early broiler market, and most of this report is con- 

 sequently devoted to that phase. 



In 1921, price quotations in the New York Producers' Price Current 

 indicate that the first spring broilers were sold on March 22 at $1.00 

 per pound, (See Fig. 1) and that the price remained at this figure or 

 above during the four following weeks. Apparently there was a scarc- 

 ity of this type of live broiler on the market since express fowl were 

 selling around forty cents per pound. 



