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establishments is handy, the housewife can personally 

 inspect her purchases, which she would probably not do 

 if it was not made so very convenient for her in connec- 

 tion with her shopping in other lines, while facilities of 

 electric cars and horseless omnibuses are constantly 

 improving, so that communication is easy and quick 

 between the department store and the home of the cus- 

 tomer. The tendency of all inventions is to mass pro- 

 duction at a few points remote from consumption, hence 

 many poultry operators will, in the future, be diverted 

 from a suburban region of high priced lands to a locality 

 of cheaper acres and a more favorable climate. 



Transportation is king and governs every department 

 of industry. In the case we are considering, not only 

 has improved transportation rendered distant sites feasi- 

 ble, but it has, through the means of trolley lines, 

 checked, to some extent, the great increase of city 

 homes, and by stimulating out-of-town residence, has 

 added to the numbers of suburban people who raise eggs 

 for their own families, with a surplus to take to the city. 

 In other words, they leave the ranks of buyers of poultry 

 products and become producers themselves, thus adding 

 to the supply of near by raised strictly fresh eggs. 



The production of eggs at a point remote from the 

 large city market has also been made more feasible than 

 formerly by the recent improvements in cold storage. 

 It is true that nothing will ever quite equal a newly laid 

 egg, but eggs absolutely newly laid when put into cold 

 storage, will, the following winter, turn out to be very 

 good indeed, even if not "fresh laid/' and will meet a 

 great demand at high prices. Eggs collected from ordi- 

 nary farms by itinerant hucksters, or accumulated indis- 

 criminately at grocery stores and then taken to cold 

 storage, will always be more or less in bad repute. 

 Hence the advantage possessed by the proprietor of a 

 poultry farm on a large scale, where every nest is visited 



