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They are a source of pleasure to me ; I like to have them 

 around. But when I sow five or six acres of buckwheat, and 

 have a good crop, and find, when I go into the field to harvest 

 it, that my neighbors' turkeys have harvested it for me, I do 

 not feel in a very pleasant frame of mind. And when I set 

 out two acres of cabbage, manure them well, and expect to 

 have a great crop, and find my neighbors' turkeys have eaten 

 them all off, I do not feel so pleasantly about it. I don't 

 know but my friend Webb can keep his temper under such 

 circumstances, and keep perfectly calm, but I can't. 



Mr. Webb. I don't have the same temptation, perhaps. I 

 don't raise buckwheat for my neighbors' turkeys to prey upon. 

 That is the difference. 



Mr. Fenn. There is one branch of this subject that has 

 not been discussed, and that is the way of selling eggs. There 

 has been a good deal said about selling them by weight. I 

 would like to know if the lady has taken that matter into 

 consideration ? 



Miss Reed. I think eggs should be sold by weight. They 

 are so sold in Denver, Colorado, as well as vegetables and 

 many other things which we do not sell by weight. 



Mr. Fenn. The only information which I have been able 

 to gather on that point has been by reading a discussion in a 

 New York Farmers' Club which was printed in the New York 

 Times. The conclusion which was reached was that a pound 

 and four ounces was the average weight of a dozen eggs. In 

 •* order to test the matter, I weighed a dozen eggs from my 

 hens, and found that they weighed a pound and eleven ounces. 

 During the season, I weighed several lots of eggs, and found 

 none that weighed less than a pound and six ounces per 

 dozen. 



Question. What kind of hens ? 



Mr. Fenn. Mixed ; no particular breed. 



Mr. Gold. A question has been handed to me. Is there 

 any objection to feeding oats whole to fowls ? 



Miss Reed. We feed oats whole, and would feed a good 



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