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of some variety. If anybody tries to induce you to cross your 

 stock, chase him off the place. If you have a variety of hens 

 that lay nice, clean, fine-shaped, brown shelled eggs, you can 

 sell them even in the New York market for forty cents. Do 

 not put mixed eggs into the market if you wish to get the best 

 price. These are facts. These are things that people should 

 stop to consider. If you could put into the market from the 

 State of Connecticut every single egg that will be produced 

 this winter, and get forty-two cents instead of sixteen to nine- 

 teen cents for off-colored and ill-shapen eggs, you would have 

 about two hundred and fiftv- thousand dollars coming into this 

 State for eggs, simply because you did not allow somebody to 

 come along and try to persuade you that their idea of cross 

 breeding is better than pure bred poultry. When you see a 

 man that is getting nineteen cents a dozen, just think of 

 Brother Tillinghast, and think how nice he is fixed down there 

 at his home with his forty-two cent eggs. It is just as easy 

 for you all to have fort\-two cent eggs, for there never will be 

 a time as long as this country increases in population as it does 

 when there will not be a market for such eggs, and there will 

 never be, I am afraid, more than enough to supply the people 

 of the cit\- of New York alone. 



Xow I do not wish to tire you, but I must mention one 

 or two facts more. I want to help you to do better because 

 nothing makes people feel happier than a nice little cash bal- 

 ance in the bank. Then they can look even.- man in the face, 

 and say, " I do not owe you a cent." I have visited the mar- 

 kets of New York, Boston, Washington, Philadelphia, Balti- 

 more, Kansas City, Chicago, Dallas, Texas, and St. Louis, and 

 I do not think there is a city of over one hundred thousand in- 

 habitants where I have not gone among the poultrymen and in- 

 quired as to the price of eggs and dressed poultry and I find 

 this yen.' same condition in most all of them. Dressed poultry 

 is selling from seven, nine, twelve, fourteen, sixteen to twenty 

 cents a pound, and if vou want something nice out of the ice- 

 box, you must pay about thirty cents. Now what are the facts 

 about that situation ? The man that sold that thirty cent poul- 

 trj' made money ; was doing well. The fellow that sold the 

 seven and nine cent poultn,- probably has a mortgage on his 

 place and never will be able to lift it. 



