Broilers for profit

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...for highest; April, twenty for lowest, and fifty-five for highest; May, twentyeight for lowest, and fifty-five for highest; June, twenty-six for lowest, and thirty-seven for highest; July, twenty for lowest, and thirty-three for highest; August, eighteen for lowest, and twenty-eight for highest; September, sixteen for lowest, and twenty-two for highest; October, thirteen for lowest, and twenty-two for highest; November, thirteen for lowest, and twenty-two for highest; December, thirteen for lowest, and twenty-one for highest. These, of course, are pound prices. It will be seen that the lowest quotation is fifteen cents, and that price occurs only in the months of October, November and December. Another point, and one which will strengthen my case, is that during the months from about the middle of February to the middle of September, the prices call for broilers, usually one and a half pounds each, while the rest of the year they are spring chickens, and may weigh two to three pounds, bringing a good price at the lowest quotation. The cost of artificial heat during warm weather also lessens the cost of production." This interview has brought out a number of suggestions, and it may be well to make a few notes and comments. Mr. Jacobs places the cost of feeding up to a marketable size, at five or six cents a pound. Mr. Seely thinks the estimate I gave in my first article, fifteen cents a pound, which includes brooding, about right; but the matter of cost can only be reckoned by taking the wholesale figures on grain at the nearest market. However, in making up an estimate it is best to place the price of feeding at fifteen cents per pound, including the cost of brooding, or ten cents a pound for feed alone. The cross Mr. Jacobs recommends is one which Mr....