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POULTRY CULTURE 



The facts about the broiler business at Hammonton were widely 

 published, but as usual the fictions gained wider credence, and 

 for some ten or fifteen years big broiler plants were built up in 

 various parts of the country, many of them undertaking to pro- 

 duce broilers the year round. None of these plants succeeded, 



Fig. 30. Soft-roaster plant of Farrer Brothers, West Norwell, Mass. 



and some of them involved their owners in heavy losses. The 

 most celebrated broiler plant was that known as the " Mary L. 

 Poultry Plant," at Sidney, Ohio. It is said that the owner 

 admitted having lost over one hundred thousand dollars on 

 the plant, and it is commonly believed among poultrymen that 

 his losses were very much larger. In recent years few efforts 



Fig. 31. Part of soft-roaster plant of Henry D. Smith, Hanover, Mass. 



