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dium broiler is very popular, and brings the highest price during 
the broiler season proper, but after that time brings no more per 
pound than the large broiler, or even the larger frying chicken. 
Small or squab broilers weigh from three-quarters to one 
pound each, or from one and one-half to two pounds to the pair. 
This grade of broiler is the most expensive for the consumer, and 
is used only at high-class luncheons and dinners, or in high-class 
hotel and restaurant trade; consequently it is in much less demand. 
The true squab broiler should be considered rather as an in- 
cidental in the broiler industry, while the medium broiler con- 
stitutes the leading type, from the standpoint of both demand 
and supply, during the season of high prices. 
With a great many perishable products, appearances often 
count for more than true quality. This, however, is not the case 
Fia. 175.—Market types of broilers. A, Large; B, medium; C, small or squab. 
with broilers. It should always be the aim of broiler raisers to 
give to the market a kind of product with which it is familiar and 
for which it has designated its intention to pay a premium. Com- 
mission markets demand that broilers be dry picked; clean picking 
and neat appearance being of special significance. A uniform lot of 
broilers both as to weight, color, condition of flesh, and the absence 
of feathered shanks is especially important. Asto plumage charac- 
teristics, no one birdseemsto be preferredover another. Uniformity 
in all characters makes for highest prices; this is especially true in 
regard to size, plumpness, color of skin, shank, and size of comb. 
The broiler seasons are determined largely by the demand and 
supply (Fig. 176). There is comparatively little demand for broil- 
ers until November, owing largely to the fact that during the sum- 
mer there are fewer functions or dinners requiring them. Besides, 
most of the well-to-do families are-away for the summer, and the 
hotels and restaurants which constitute over eighty per cent of 
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