Excerpt from Marketing New England Poultry: 6. Economies of Scale in Hatching and Cost of Distributing Broiler Chicks The authors appreciate the cooperation of the hatchery operators who provided information and data on input-output relationships and costs and those manufacturers and suppliers of hatchery equipment and supplies who furnished data on specifications, capacities and costs. The authors wish to ao knowledge the assistance and critical appraisal received from W. F. Henry, of the Resource Economics Department of the University of New Hampshire; A. A. Brown, of the University of Massachusetts; and George B. Rogers, Marketing Economics Division, Economic Research Service, U. S. Department of Agri culture. 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.