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13. Roasters——What is known in the market as a 
roaster is a fairly matured fowl large enough, either alone 
DRESSED FOWL FOR THE ROASTER TRADE 
One way of finishing for the roaster market. The fowls are White Wyandotte 
cockerels less than four months old. Such choice individuals are obtainable by 
rational methods of feeding and with general purpose and meat breeds. 
or with another roaster, to supply a family dinner. These 
fowls are most profitably raised by being allowed free 
range of the stubble fields, pastures, 
meadows and orchards, where they 
pick up a large share of their living 
between the time that they can leave 
the brooder or the mother hen and 
the time they are sold. Frequently 
they are fattened for two weeks or 
so before going to market so as to 
add a pound or more to their weight. 
They are more profitable than broil- 
ers raised in the ordinary way ov. the 
farm. 
14. Winter Jayers.—It is a much 
disputed question whether pullets or 
PROPERLY FINISHED 
PLYMOUTH ROocK 
HEN 
