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POULTRY AS FOOD. E73 
The price of poultry of course varies with the season and 
with the markets. Early ‘broiler’? chickens, green geese and 
ducklings bring much better prices than the birds of the same 
age later in the season, or the older birds of the same kind. 
Poultry is usually dearer in the East and North than in the 
South and West and there are, of course, great differences in 
the prices charged in the various retail markets of the same 
place. Table 28 shows average wholesale prices of the four 
most common kinds of poultry for three summer and three 
winter months. That the differences between summer and 
winter prices are so slight is doubtless due to cold storage deal- 
ers, who buy up poultry when there is an abundance on the 
market, and keep it until there is a scarcity. 
TABLE 28. 
Average wholesale prices of poultry per pound at different seasons. 


KIND OF POULTRY. 
June 
July 
August. 
December 
January. 
February. 
Average. 


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Common fowl, & = 3 Hp bE et 2 Ov Tie Ohi. OF AA ae c eee 
Turkey, - : r E ~ 2p) 2L2 E13. O01 5.0 pr hak On et Sate i hae 
Duck, © - - ~ 2 ~ SS ULOU GET A TAO TS oe Ae TAs Aas 
Goose,. - 2 e : 3 apy ge al KOS, Oin5/) LA Os Els bean 

Of course it is impossible to estimate exactly the average re- 
tail prices of poultry for all seasons and all sections, but the 
figures used in calculating Table 29 represent those prices with 
something approaching correctness. It is intended to show the 
cost of the actual nutrients of the various materials when the 
latter are bought at the prices given in the first column. The 
second and third columns give the cost of a pound of digestible 
protein and fat, and the third, the cost of 1,000 calories of 
energy. ‘The last four columns show the amount of nutrients 
and energy which ten cents will buy, at the given prices per 
pound. The refuse, water and indigestible nutrients have been 
counted out and these figures refer only to the actual nutrients * 
—the material which might actually nourish the body. 
