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Marketing of Poultry. 



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Russian, and his weight is considered most suitable for hotel 

 trade. 



Ducks, geese and turkeys are not a very large trade. Hun- 

 garian, Austrian, Italian and French chickens and turkeys 

 are an important trade at Christmas, but during the remainder 

 of the year they are sold chiefly in Paris and towns on the 

 Rhine. They are quick grown and of fine quality, especially 

 the French turkeys, which are fed especially for the London 

 Christmas trade. 



Taking Liverpool as a distributing centre, it is the largest 

 for Russian, Canadian and American poultry ; but Hungarian, 

 Austrian, Italian and French are consigned chiefly to London. 



Manchester.* — There are practically no English geese sent to 

 this market, the entire supply from Michaelmas to Christmas 

 coming from Ireland, while at Christmas and onwards to the 

 end of January Russian geese are chiefly used. The Irish 

 geese are small but of good quality, and very suitable 

 for the Manchester Michaelmas trade, the Russian are 

 larger and well fed, and are more suitable for the Christmas 

 trade. A few geese come from France, but these are soft in 

 flesh and not very popular. 



The trade in turkeys varies with the seasons — from the end 

 of September to Christmas the demand is chiefly for small 

 turkey-poults of from 6 to 8 lb. each, these are all supplied 

 from Ireland and are of exceptionally good quality. At 

 Christmas and to the end of the season the demand is for larger 

 birds ; the majority of these are also from Ireland, but a large 

 number of the heaviest birds come from France and Italy ; 

 these are of good appearance, but the proportion of bone to the 

 amount of flesh is large. There are practically no Norfolk 

 turkeys used. 



Taking the poultry trade as a whole it is much the same as 

 Liverpool. The retail trade is controlled by a combination of 

 firms trading in different parts of the town ; the wholesale 

 trade is carried on chiefly in the public fish market and in the 

 general market. The chief ports of landing are Holyhead 

 for Irish, Hull for Russian, and Liverpool for American and 

 Canadian. 



* A note on the Manchester poul.ry rrarket was given in the Journal, 

 February, i:o3, p. 645. 



