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eggs, worth $11,466, and that San Francisco reports an 

 import of eggs to that amount exactly. John Chinaman 

 clings closely to his native land, and to such delicacies 

 as those eggs must be after traveling a fourth of the cir- 

 cuit of the globe. Our census returns show that the egg- 

 product the average to the laying fowl depends much 

 upon the accessibility to good markets, and to the exer- 

 cise of care and the administration of good food. Thus, 

 the New England States average about eighty eggs to 

 the fowl. New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Ohio 

 average sixty, and in some of the Southern States the 

 average is as low as forty. In some of the States, poul- 

 try is raised more for the table than for the egg-product. 



