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dealer also has to make bis profit after all these 

 expenses are paid ; and I do not say that 9c/. to 10</. 

 an egg, or 100 for 4/., is at all an excessive price. 



ill, given the stock of pheasants and the staff, 

 it is undoubtedly witch cheaper to produce one's own 

 eggs, from an aviary at home, than to buy them from 

 a dealer. Besides this, the percentage of eggs hatched 

 out from home-laid eggs is undoubtedly greater than 

 from bought ones, which are often much spoilt in 

 travelling.' 



