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-who gives some attention to the production of broilers, to- 

 grow a nice lot of roasters each season without adding 

 .much to his labors, or encroaching on his other stock. 

 These things, mentioned in a general way in this pre- 

 liminary chapter will be discussed in more detail in the 

 appropriate connection in subsequent chapters. 



12. How About the Demand for and the Supply 

 of these Classes of Table Poultry? — Notwithstand- 

 ing occasional brief periods of overloaded markets, it may 

 be truthfully said that the supply of extra choice table 

 poultry, and even of ordinary good table poultry, is not 

 -adequate to meet the demand. We have to take the situ- 

 ation at large to determine a point of this kind, and we 

 have also to consider the ranges and apparent tendencies 

 of prices. For several years now all poultry of good 

 grades has been higher than usual in the large centers of 

 "population, and no grounds for anticipating an early or 

 considerable reduction of values exist. It is clear to any 

 student of market conditions that the demand increases 

 faster than the supply increases, or is at all likely to 

 increase, until facilities for instruction and training in 

 poultry culture are much more efficient than at present. 

 No prospective poultry grower need worry about the 

 supply exceeding the demand, and leaving him without a 

 satisfactory market for his products. What he needs to 

 concern himself most about is to fit himself to produce 

 good goods economically. When he can do that he can 

 live comfortably through the period of reaction from a 

 boom — if boom there should be ; but there are at present 

 no indications of a production that would glut the market 

 ior more than a very brief period. 



