j 2 , BROILERS AND ROASTERS. 



to stay out, and in communities where growers sure of 

 their position go steadily on year after year there is always 

 a liberal sprinkling of newcomers who 'will hardly last a 

 season, with here and there one who achieves a success 

 which transfers him to the class of experts. 



9. Growing Soft Roasters as an Adjunct to 

 Other Occupation. — In the communities referred to 

 above there are besides the successful and experimental 

 plants which engage the time and attention of one or more 

 men, many people who have time and facilities to grow a 

 few hundred roasters annually, and who, living where the 

 .methods and profitableness of this line of work are well 

 ninderstood, take to it naturally. Some of them are strik- 

 ingly successful, easily making additions to their regular 

 incomes so substantial that within a few years they have 

 given up other occupation, and are engaged exclusively in 

 growing roasters. Some, as it is to be expected, fail and 

 .quit in discouragement. Others, probably the greater 

 number, make enough to satisfy them, and continue grow- 

 ing roasters as a side line on such scale as their other 

 ■engagements permit. 



10. Growing Roasters as a Feature in a General 

 Poultry Business. -It is in this way that most of the 

 •small roasters are produced. They come from the yards 

 of breeders, from egg farms, and from the general farms. 

 They are for the most part the surplus cockerels of the 

 general purpose breeds raised and handled in the usual 

 way, and marketed just as they approach sexual maturity. 

 Considering the circumstances of their production, (hey 

 might be considered as a by-product rather than a specialty 

 with their growers, though the profit in them, if they fill 



