The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-06-22
Marketing Poultry and Eggs

In Germany and France and
also in many cities Of this country
the market place is the great rem
devious for all classes to trade
In the products for the table:
1t is especially the place for
1.-The farmer, market gardener and
the poultry raiser to dispose OF
their goods. A good maket is q
| God-send to any community, as
lit brings the producer and the
consumer close together. II the
poultryman puts his eggs and
dressed poultry in his market
stall In the finest possible condi-
ltion he can readily command the
top of the market. Customers In
! passing through the market place
are looking usually for the most
attractive things they can find
for the money they have to invest.
! In this way. you see the producer
and consumer are brought face
ito face, and the middleman's pro-
fits are eliminated entirely. There
are, many cities and communities
in the South where they do not
get the benefits of the standing
street markets of the smaller
towns nor the market stalls in
the cities. In the absence of
these the next best thing for the
p~oultryman to do is to get In
touch with the consumers by us
ing a good, handy delivery wag-
on, with which he can soon get
up a good paying route for his
wares, both at the hotels, restau-
rants and at private houses.
Cleanliness, which means attrae-
tiveness, is the keynote to success.
Let every egg be spick and span.
Not a spot or stain to prevent
them from looking like they were
surely intended to eat. People
will stay with you on that class
of goods at an advance over the
regular retail g%rocer's prices in
spite of their efforts to buy as
cheap as they can. In the lead
ing cities and the larger towns
good plump broilers weighing
from 1 IL to 2 pounds are in good
demand from january to June
and command fancy prices. The
bulk of such trade is, of course
at the best hotels, although a good
retail market can be established
in most places for the larger and
older specimens of this class.
Vigor, health, and quick growth
are essentials for putting this pro-
duct upon the market at top
Consumers will not long
stand for poor, ill-kept specimens
sold as broilers.
Chicks weighing 212 pounds
are not much in demand in the
best city markets. They are nei-
ther broilers, frys nor small roast
ers. Quick growing, young, ten
der cockerels weighing 3 to 4
pounds usually sell pretty well
during July, August and Septem-
Der at fair prices. Good prime
roasters of 4 to 6 pounds sell well
at almost any season of the year.
AS a rule the best time to dispose
of old fowls, hens and cocks, lis
during the Thanksgiving and
Christmas holidays. There is at
this time an enormous demand
for roasters of all sizes, which
usually consumes almost every
thing in sight in or around the
cities. Such stock will usually
bring the best prices put upon the
market dressed. A fowl when
nicely dressed does not show up
its age so prominently as it would
with its old scraggly plumage on.
In fact, a good, healthy, fat old
fowl when roasted to a turn is a
very palatable dish in cold wea-
ther. AS already indicated it
stands the poultryman in hand
who raises considerable numbers
to look up the markets for him
self. 1t is not a place to deal in
proxies. It requires personal in
terest or personal effort to make
a STRAIT. A retail business is usu-
ally begun with one or two good
customers who, being well salts
fed with the goods delivered all
the time, soon become the means
of turning others your way. There
must by all means be regularity
IN the delivery, as customers soon
tire OF an irresponsible party who
fails to keep his word as to time
OF delivery. When the housewife
is depending upon two dozen
fresh eggs to be delivered at al