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A Chance for the Hen in Northern New England. A Presentation of Testimony Showing What Has Been Done, As Well As What Can Be Done, In the Poultry Industry in Massachusetts and New Hampshire
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A Chance for the Hen in Northern New England. A Presentation of Testimony Showing What Has Been Done, As Well As What Can Be Done, In the Poultry Industry in Massachusetts and New Hampshire
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Boston and Maine Railroad. Industrial Department. Concord, NH
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What the Poultry Industry in Massachusetts and New Hampshire Offers to Men and Women of Energy and Ability
The hen deserves a better chance in Northern New England. It may be a cantankerous creature and it is insistent on following its own ways and methods, but rightfully controlled and carefully manipulated, it offers splendid profit-making probabilities, which arc worthy of investigation by all who appreciate that opportunity flings wide open its doors in those who are ready to enter the field of production.
Massachusetts and New Hampshire offer unusually attractive openings for raising poultry. In the first place, suitable land areas and very satisfactory buildings are to be secured at low prices; second, markets are readily accessible and shipping facilities are ample, with low rates; third, the demand for the products far in excess of the supply and is likely to so continue for many years.
In fact, in these important considerations, it has been estimated by the poultry department of Cornell University, one of the most efficient in the United States, that Massachusetts and New Hampshire enjoy an advantage of 30 per cent, over the poultry-raising region west of the Appalachian range. Against this, it is asserted that, in the cost of feed, the New England states are handicapped to I lie extent of 10 per cent.
This means that the poultry producers of Massachusetts and New Hampshire have a net advantage of 20 per cent, over those of the western states—in other words, a New England man is in a position to secure chickens and eggs 20 per cent, less than his competitors in the west.
The hen deserves a better chance in Northern New England. It may be a cantankerous creature and it is insistent on following its own ways and methods, but rightfully controlled and carefully manipulated, it offers splendid profit-making probabilities, which arc worthy of investigation by all who appreciate that opportunity flings wide open its doors in those who are ready to enter the field of production.
Massachusetts and New Hampshire offer unusually attractive openings for raising poultry. In the first place, suitable land areas and very satisfactory buildings are to be secured at low prices; second, markets are readily accessible and shipping facilities are ample, with low rates; third, the demand for the products far in excess of the supply and is likely to so continue for many years.
In fact, in these important considerations, it has been estimated by the poultry department of Cornell University, one of the most efficient in the United States, that Massachusetts and New Hampshire enjoy an advantage of 30 per cent, over the poultry-raising region west of the Appalachian range. Against this, it is asserted that, in the cost of feed, the New England states are handicapped to I lie extent of 10 per cent.
This means that the poultry producers of Massachusetts and New Hampshire have a net advantage of 20 per cent, over those of the western states—in other words, a New England man is in a position to secure chickens and eggs 20 per cent, less than his competitors in the west.
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