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Question. My idea in regard to keeping hens is that the 

 old fowls will do without very much range so long as they 

 have sufficient green feed, but chicks want all the range they 

 can have. I would like to ask the speaker if he thinks old 

 fowls need much range? 



Mr. Almy. No, I do not think they do, not as much as 

 young chicks. 



Question. Speaking about old fowls, how old do you keep 

 them ? 



Mr. Almy. I never keep anything older than a yearling. 



Question. Where do you market your eggs ? 



Mr. Almy. The eggs that I sell on commission I send to 

 Providence, but I have customers in Newport, Providence, and 

 various other places. Most of the eggs, though, that I sell on 

 commission are sold in Providence. 



Question. Have you tried to raise any other variety of 

 birds than the Rhode Island Reds ? 



Mr. Almy. No sir. I never tried to any extent. I did at 

 one time have a couple of small flocks of Brahmas, simply to 

 have a few eggs to raise roosters from. I thought it might im- 

 prove the size of my eggs, but when I wanted eggs in the fall 

 they did not lay, and when I did not care whether I had any at 

 all they did lay. 



Mr. Graham. I understand that your success has all been 

 due to raising chickens for producing eggs? 



Mr. Almy. Entirely, yes. 



Mr. Graham. As I understand it, there" are more men in 

 your locality who are doing just as you are? 



Mr. Almy. Yes, I think so, to a certain extent. There 

 are very few there in my locality that make that their business 

 almost entirely. At the same time, there are very few who do 

 not keep hens. Almost every farmer there keeps hens to a 

 more or less extent. 



Mr. Graham. Most of them keep about how many? The 

 point I wanted to bring out was whether the section where you 



