BROILERS AND ROASTERS. 



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CHAPTER IX. 



Selling and Preparing for Sale. 



53. Selling Alive and Dressed. — The question of 

 selling alive or dressed was briefly mentioned on page 55, 

 As there stated, the decision as to which is the better way 

 to sell must be made by each grower for himself. The 

 grower located where there are many persons producing 

 poultry, and collectors making regular trips buying poul- 

 try, will generally, if — as we must suppose — the practice 

 of most thrifty growers indicates what is best to be done, 

 find it more satisfactory to sell both broilers and roasters 

 alive. But many are so situated that they cannot sell alive 

 to so good advantage, while all who sell to retail or private 

 family trade must sell dressed. If one does not know how 

 to dress poultry it is better to hire an expert picker at so 

 much per chick or fowl. Many small growers about 

 Boston have the marketmen to whom they sell send them 

 a picker whenever they have enough chickens ready to 

 dress to keep a man busy for a day or more. A grower 

 retailing his fowls should learn to dress them himself. 



