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Excerpt from The Poultry and Egg Situation: July 1942 Farm marketings of chickens are likely to continue larger than a. Year earlier and will increase considerably until the usual seasonal peak is reached in October or November. In recent weeks marketings of fowl in the Midwest have been much larger than last year, although sales of young stock have been about the same. Farmers may be taking advantage of more favorable chicken prices by feeding birds to heavier weights. Storage stocks Of poultry are about at the seasonal low, with stocks of few]. The largest on record. For this date and stocks of young chickens the smallest since 192a. The effects On prices of the larger marketings of chickens this year are likely to be slightly more than Offset by stronger consumer and storage demand. Prices of some classes, particularly heavy roasters. May be little different from a year earlier, however, during the period of peak marke' rings. In mid-june-the average price received by farmers for chickens in the United States was 13 percent higher than a year earlier and whole sale prices for both live and dressed birds have continued higher than last Turkey prices also have continued higher this year than last. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.