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Marketing eggs and poultry in Florida.

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Date Issued:
1945
Abstract/Description:
Producing chickens for meat and eggs as well as other fowl are an important enterprise in Florida. Best practices for handling and marketing these products are offered here as well as other information on the industry.
Title: Marketing eggs and poultry in Florida.
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Name(s): Risher, F. W. (Francis Washington)
Florida Dept. of Agriculture.
PALMM (Project)
Type of Resource: text
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: <1945>
Date Issued: 1945
Date Issued: 1945
Publisher: State Dept. of Agriculture
Place of Publication: Tallahassee, Fla.
Physical Form: electronic resource
Extent: 63 p. : ill. (some col., folded), map ; 22 cm.
Language(s): eng
Abstract/Description: Producing chickens for meat and eggs as well as other fowl are an important enterprise in Florida. Best practices for handling and marketing these products are offered here as well as other information on the industry.
Table of Contents: Marketing Florida poultry and eggs: Marketing hints -- Prices of poultry and eggs -- Per capita production and consumption of eggs, chickens, and turkey, United States, 1910-43 -- Pointers on egg marketing methods -- Eggs produced on Florida farms by dozens -- Chickens raised by counties, 1939 -- Dozens of eggs produced by counties -- Measuring the air cell -- U.S. and Florida grades for eggs -- Specifications for official United States standards for quality of individual shell eggs -- Tentative U.S. standards for classes and grades for live poultry -- Tentative U.S. standards for classes and grades for dressed chickens -- Cooperative poultry sales -- Size of the poultry industry in Florida -- Averages from reports of commercial egg producers -- Tentative U.S. standards for classes and grades for dressed turkeys -- Annual value of poultry meat and eggs, U.S. -- Poultry and egg prices - Jacksonville, Tampa, Miami -- Index -- Florida and U.S. standards for individual eggs.
Target Audience: general
Identifier: UF00002858 (iid), 49805250 (oclc), AAA3174 QF, 967974 (digitool), uf:102425 (fedora)
Note(s): by F.W. Risher.
Includes index.
"November, 1945."
Electronic reproduction. [Florida] : Board of Education, Division of Colleges and Universities, PALMM Project, 2001. Mode of Access: World Wide Web. System Requirements: Internet connectivity; Web browser software; Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and print PDF files. Electronically reproduced from Collection in George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida.
Subject(s): Eggs -- Florida -- Marketing
Poultry industry -- Florida
Florida -- 12000
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dl/UF00002858.pdf
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dl/UF00002858.jpg
Host Institution: UF
Other Format:
(OCoLC)41670834
Is Part of Series: Bulletin (Florida. Dept. of Agriculture) ; no. 112.