Show poultry meat deserves attention and thought tho the production of poultry meat deserves more attention and thought if the maximum profits are to be derived above the labor and feed ct coats at the different breeds of eble chickens liens vary in the ultimate size of body at maturity valuable data have been found in an analysis of the present edible meat to the live and dressed bird with crate fed stock representing four different types commonly kept by farmers and commercial poultry men roasters boasters Ro asters twenty eight weeks old of four leading breeds were carefully weighed and the amount of edible meat in relation to live weight determined buff showed slightly over 50 per cent of the live weight to be edible rhode wand island reds per cent plymouth rocks and white leghorns Leg Ug horns per cent this wide range between the heavier types and the leghorns Leg horns points out the necessity of disposing of the Legg leghorn born males as broilers rather than carry them to the roaster stage the heavier stock eat more feed but notreda not relatively more for the weight attained at maturity very little difference exists between the types in age but the per cent edible meat to dressed carcass Is quite striking the difference of 12 per cent edible meat as shown between the orpington and the leghorn and 10 per cent between red or rock and the leghorn indicates the relative difference of the two general types for the production of meat montreal herald |