S 4 BROILERS AND ROASTERS. 



CHAPTER VII 



Some General Points on Roasters. 



47. Peculiarities of "South Shore" Methods. — 



As the broiler goes direct from the brooder to market the 

 broiler growers' problems in management do not go beyond 

 the methods of handling chickens in brooder houses. The 

 grower of large roasters has to consider how best to carry 

 his crop — some of which was developed enough to be 

 sold for broilers early in the winter — to the season of 

 high prices in the following summer. He saves in feed 

 by using the lowest priced grain (corn), and in cost of 

 feeding by keeping food standing before the chickens all 

 the time. The usual way to feed these chickens is to have 

 in each house a trough or hopper of cracked corn, another 

 of beef scrap, and a pail of water. While the supply of 

 cabbage lasts, cabbage is given frequently ; after that the 

 only green food the chicks get is the rye they pick for 

 themselves when the snow is off the ground. As snow- 

 rarely lies long in that locality, they are seldom long with- 

 out green food. 



