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Top price quotations for the seasons were 65 cents per pound in 1925, 

 60 cents in 1926, 50 cents in 1927 and 55 cents in 1928. In 1928 prices 

 were consistently higher than in 1927 during the early part of the sea- 

 son, but somewhat lower during the latter part. These prices seem to 

 indicate increasing receipts of winter and early spring broilers with per- 

 haps some decrease in the 1927-28 season. 



The decline in live broiler jjrices since 1921 is illustrated further by 

 Figure 3, showing their relation on Thursday of each week to the prices 

 of express fowl and Long Island duck. In the 1921 broiler season ex- 

 press fowl were selling around 40 cents per pound, but during the three 

 following years were only selling at about 30 cents per pound. In the 

 early broiler season of 1925 and 1926 express fowl were selling slightly 

 higher again at around 35 cents, but dropped to 30 cents in 1927 and 

 slightly below that in 1928. 



The prices of Long Island ducks from 1921 to 1928 have shown a 

 much greater drop. In 1921 they were selling in March at 55 cents per 

 pound. In 1922 the top price for the season had dropped to 48 cents, 

 in 1923 to 38 cents, and in 1924 to 36 cents. In 1925 the top price 

 jumped to 52 cents but declined rapidly and in 1926 only reached 40 

 cents. In 1927 the top price for the season was 35 cents and in 1928 

 was only 33 cents. 



During the 1927 to 1928 season the prices of Long Island ducks were 

 stabilized to a remarkable degree, remaining practically unchanged for 

 13 weeks. The level of this stabilization, however, averaged the lowest 

 of any season in the past eight years. During the past four early 

 broiler seasons the prices of Long Island ducks have apparently aver- 

 aged about the same or slightly higher than those of express fowl. 



There has apparently been very little week to w^ek relation between 

 the price of live broilers and that of express fowl or Long Island ducks, 

 IS'ow that the price margins between these classes of fowl have become 

 much smaller than in 1921 and 1922, their price movements may be 

 more nearly the same in the future than in the past. 



Trend of Mwonthly Receipts from New Hampshire and Other States 



While receii^ts of live broilers on the New York market have been in- 

 creasing rapidly, this increase has not been uniform throughout the 

 entire season for Xew Hampshire or competing states as shown in Fig- 

 ure 4. Receipts from Xew Hampshire clufing January, February and 

 March in 1926 were 243.755 pounds, compared with 67,069 pounds in 

 1625, or an increase of 263 percent. During April and May of these 

 two seasons, however, the increase was only 85,853 pounds, or 42 per- 

 i'ent. In the 1927 early broiler season there was only a small increase 

 during January, April and May over the preceding season, a moderate 

 increase in February and ^larch of 76,366 pounds, or 37 percent, and 

 a marked increase of 58,894 pounds, or 311 percent, in November, and 

 December over the preceding year. Expansion in production in New 

 Hampshire apparently went on most rapidly during the earliest months 

 of each winter broiler season. 



Receipts from the other New England states indicate very little ten- 

 dency to expand their production of winter broilers. During each 

 of the three seasons covered by this study there has been a slight in- 



