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the attention of anyone who has the equipment and cans 

 spare the time. 



8. Growing Soft Roasters as an Exclusive- 

 Industry. — As has already been stated there is probably 

 no branch of the production of market poultry products, 

 except duck growing, that pays better than this. In what 

 is known as the " South Shore " district of eastern Massa- 

 chusetts, the country about the towns of Norwell and Ran- 

 dolph, the production of soft roasters engages the attention 

 of a great many people. A considerable proportion of 

 them make it an exclusive business, and perhaps the 

 majority of those interested in it limit their attention to- 

 poultry to this one feature. 



It is fortunate for those established in the business that 

 the conditions under which it is carried on discourage 

 attempts of people without either experience or capital to- 

 engage in it. The equipment required to grow roasters on' 

 a large scale is not to be. put in for a few hundred dollars. 

 The income comes almost wholly in about two months irr 

 early summer. During the remainder of the year expenses 

 are constant and sometimes heavy. A man must either 

 have capital enough to go through most of the year with- 

 out drawing money out of the business for current or 

 living expenses, or must have a reputation as a grower 

 that will enable him to get the backing or credit he needs- 

 to carry his crop of roasters until ready for market. If it 

 were possible to make a beginning with as little capital as 

 is often used for a start in other lines of poultry culture, or 

 if there was any prospect of realizing a steady income- 

 there would be many tempted to go into the business every 

 year. As it is a good many people go into it who ought 



