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year. But, it would take an egg a day from every one 

 of those farms, to give New York City alone one egg 

 apiece for that day, for each dweller within her greater 

 limits. It doesn't seem much to ask, that each person 

 shall have one egg a day ; but, with eggs at five cents 

 apiece, as they were at wholesale at midwinter, it would 

 take $250,000 to give each of those hungry New Yorkers 

 their one egg each for that one day. If they had it every 

 day ah me ; you figure it ! I cannot believe my figures. 

 They make it over $90,000,000. Just for one egg a day 

 all the year for one city full of people eager for eggs ! 



Eggs have been going up, up, up because demand 

 exceeded supply, much of the year. What if the de- 

 mand for poultry instruction in the schools should kill 

 the goose that lays the golden eggs ? What if we, one 

 day, raise so many eggs that prices go down, down, 

 down ? Aweel, that day is dim in the future ; and, at 

 all events, the hungry people will be fed, and that will 

 take one care from the shoulders of the social reformers. 



