Show FAT fAKES THE PRICE I does not pay to sell a fowl that is in poor condition as such a bird in the market must always be given away 1 or told at a price below the regular quotations quo-tations I does not cost over 5 cents J even with the heaviest feeding to produce pro-duce a pound of pouitry A poor hen weighing six pounds can be gotten to the weight of eight pounds in from ten to twenty days seldom more than two weeksand if the market rice is 12 cents per pound she will bring 1 cents owing to her superior quality but allowing i al-lowing 12I cents per pound she will i bring a dollar We allude to only the choicest fat owls The poor hen weighing six pounds will not sell for more than 10 cents per pound Thus it will be seen that by expending ten cents for food and making a hen very fat not only it i the expenditure for food returned but the profit is much larger In fact by increasing in-creasing the weight and improving the qualtiy the value of the hen is nearly doubled in two weeks |