Excerpt from Marketing Georgia Broilers Through Commercial Processing Plants Early in the development of the broiler industry in Georgia, marketing was relatively simple. Retail markets in the immediate area were able to handle with little difficulty the limited quantities of live broilers delivered to them by producers. But, beginning in about 1940, production rose at a rapid rate and new'markets were needed (fig. Inasmuch as shrinkage and costs of hauling live broilers increase as distance increases and as the largest markets were outside the South, marketing in live form 'was impractical. 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.