MARKETING POULTRY CARCASSES 
Broilers—Packed in two weights. 1st: Less than two 
pounds; 2d: between 2 and 2% pounds. 
Chickens—Packed in three weights. 1st: between 214 and 
3 pounds; 2d: between 3 and 3% pounds; 3d: between 344 
and 4 pounds. 
Roasters—Packed in two weights. 1st: between 4 and 5 
pounds; 2d: above 5 pounds. 
Stag Roosters—Cockerels, showing spurs and hard blue 
meat, packed in two weights. Ist: under 4 pounds; 2d: above 
4 pounds. 
Fowls, are hens. They are packed in three sizes. Ist: 
under 3% pounds; 2d: between 3% and 4% pounds; 3d: over 
414 pounds. 
Old Roosters—Packed in barrels. One grade only. 
After packing, chickens may be shipped to market im- 
mediately, or they may be frozen and stored in the local plant. 
Shipments of any importance are made in refrigerator cars. 
The poultry that is shipped to the final market alive is 
gradually diminishing in quantity, as poultry killing plants 
are built up throughout the country. The live poultry ship- 
ments are chie made in the Live Poultry Transportation 
Cars. The following figures give the number of such cars that 
moved out of the States named in a recent year: 
TOWA: wee chiens ck em ae ears 645 Tennessee .............. 169 
Missouri ................ 680 Michigan ............... 165 
MHINOIS: ios nicdaes ard avuys waoinen 624 S. Dakota .............. 103 
Kentucky ............... 472 Oklahoma .............. 101 
Nebraska ............... 395 Indiana ................. 100 
Kanga esis: s/sagtanew acest 370 Wisconsin .............. 93 
Minnesota .............. 174. Texas .2 csacrveeueveaxs 91 
ODIO: ws cesectae cies sb eee 173 Arkansas ............... 47 
The most of this live poultry goes to New York and other 
eastern cities and is consumed largely by the Hebrew trade. 
The Special Poultry Plant. 
The special egg farmer of the East should sell his poultry 
alive to the regular dealer. The exception to this advice may 
be taken in the case of squab broilers for which some local 
dealers will not pay as fancy a price as may be obtained by 
dressing and shipping to the hotel trade. 
The grower of roasters and capons will probably want to 
market his own product. As to whether it will pay him to do 
so will depend upon whether his dealer will pay what the 
quality of the goods really demands. The dealer can afford to 
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