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Marketing of Poultry. 



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Shrewsbury. — The supply is entirely from the local farms, 

 and what is not sold for local consumption is bought by 

 the Birmingham and Wolverhampton dealers. 



Chester. — The local supply comes from North Wales and 

 Shropshire. Oswestry is the best market. American chickens 

 are received from March to July. No sale for Russian poultry. 



Carlisle. — Supplies are entirely local, being bought alive 

 by dealers from farmers in the district and adjoining counties ; 

 they are fatted by ordinary means by the dealers, killed and 

 trussed. There is no foreign supply. 



Aberdeen. — American chickens are imported in quantity in 

 spring, via Hull, Liverpool and Glasgow ; they are well fed, 

 but the colour is not appreciated as it is too yellow. 



Dundee. — Local supplies are equal to demand, except 

 during first three months of the year, when supplies come from 

 Ireland. Small quantities of American chickens are sold. 



Edinburgh. — The supplies are mostly Irish for all kinds of 

 poultry and the trade is very similar to that of Glasgow, one 

 difference being that some Edinburgh poulterers also get live 

 chickens from Ireland and fatten them, but this is not done on 

 a large scale. In all other respects the remarks on Glasgow apply 

 equally to Edinburgh. 



Neweastle-on-Tyne. — This is not a distributing market; 

 supplies are drawn from neighbouring counties and are sold 

 mostly for local consumption. There is a fair amount of trade 

 done in chickens, game and turkeys from France and Russia. 



Darlington. — The supply is chiefly home-bred, dealers buying 

 from farmers in the neighbourhood and at near local markets. 

 A large number of Irish geese are sold at this market in the 

 autumn, and are bought by farmers and brought back into the 

 market fat ; there is very little foreign trade. 



York. — The trade here is local. This is a collecting market, 

 dealers attending and buying for Leeds and other large centres ; 

 there is very little foreign trade. 



Leeds. — Leeds is a large distributing market, sending poultry 

 to all surrounding markets ; supplies of chickens and ducks 

 are collected from Thirsk, Northallerton, York, Ripon, Knares- 

 borough and Wetherby. Geese and turkeys come from above 

 districts, also from Lincolnshire and Ireland. There is also a 

 considerable trade in poultry from France and Russia. 



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