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THE CHICK BOOK 



PROFITABLE 



MARKET 



CHICKENS. 





Illustration Referred to by Mr. Hunter, 



Mr. Twining's figures give 

 us a clu€ to profits. He tells 

 us his two-pound broilers cost 

 him twenity-five cents apiece, 

 anfd divides the cost as fol- 

 lows: 



Two eggs 5c 



Lat)or '*^ 



Pood 8c 



Pickinig 5c 



Total 25c 



As he and his son did all 

 the work, it is obvious that 

 the seven cents for labor was 

 put into his own (and son's) 

 pockets, and that they gtot the 

 full price of their labor in ad- 

 dition to the profits returned. 

 T'he figures give us twelve and 

 a half cents per pound as the 

 cost of a two^ound broiler 

 and the market prices ranged 

 from twenty to fifty cents a 

 pound. A two-pound broiler 

 selling alt twenty cents a 

 pound pays fifteen cents prof- 

 it, while the same broiler sell- 

 ing ait fifty cents a pound 

 pays seventy-five cents profit. 

 Quite a difference there, and 

 the figures show ' the impor- 

 tance of having the product 

 ready to market at the time of 

 highest prices. This is the 

 month of April, but March 

 and May also give high prices. 

 It takes nine to twelve -weeks 

 to grow a two-pound broiler, 

 and thaJt means that the 

 chicks must be hatched in De- 

 cember, January and Febru- 

 ary to come upon the market 

 in time for best prices. 



In November, 1901, Reliable Poultry Journal, we told 

 of a decidedly successful broiler raising business, and gave 

 a table of shipments of about four thousand broilers, with 

 prices taken directly from Mr. Twining's books. We re- 

 print the table so that prices may be compared with those 

 of Mr. Rudd, published ten years earlier. 



These returns are from (practically) weekly shipments, 

 while the prices in the first table are designed to give the 

 average prices for each month. Another point worth notic- 

 ing is that Mr. Twining shipped to both Philadelphia and 

 New York markets, and sometimes could get a few cents 

 better price in one market than in the other. For example. 

 May .3rd and 8th shipments to Philadelphia only returned 

 him thirty-five cents a pound. He shipped no more for 

 nearly two weeks and then shipped to New York and re- 

 ceived forty cents for them; another shipment returning 

 him thirty-six cents, and not until June 3rd was the New 

 York price down to thirty-five cents, which was the Phila- 

 delphia price just a month earlier. It is worth noting that 

 the Boston prices for May are given as forty to thirty cents, 

 which approximates closely to Mr. Twining's actual returns 

 ten years later; a comparison of these prices shows that 

 there is but little variation in prices from year to year. 



Table of Shipments and Returns of Mr. Twining's 

 Broilers. 



Average Price per chick, 46.45 cents. 



