Excerpt from Marketing New England Poultry, Vol. 4: Structure and Ef¿ciency of the Assembly SystemThe present assembly system in New England is a mixture of the old and the new. The older system is characterized by decreasing operations as numbers of small slaughterers, live-poultry stores, buyers of live poultry, terminal market live-poultry receivers, and city dressing plants dwindle. Newer types of firms, such as large processing plants, contract haulers, and contractors, have made tremendous gains at the expense of the older types and through extensive use of contract production.The size of the supply area for most firms has been shrinking. At the same time volume per firm has increased. As farm unit sizes have in creased and the number of small firms has declined, itinerant live buy ing has virtually disappeared. Commercial meat chicken production now greatly exceeds the volume of fowl in most areas. The increasing im portance of contract growing, particularly as firm size increases, has contributed to producing larger lots and enabled better scheduling of plant operations.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.