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getting fine stock very cheap, are less than in buying eggs. Buying matured 

 stock is buying something tangible and real ; buying eggs is buying chicks 

 before they are hatched, the eggs contain possibilities ; the stock is a 

 reality. Prices of eggs run from $i to $5 rarely higher, though $10 or 

 $15 per sitting is sometimes charged. The common prices are $3 to $5 for 

 eggs from high class exhibition stock; $1,50 to $3 for medium exhibition 

 and good practical stock. Incubator eggs are sold by the hundred, at 

 from $4 to $10, or $12. At the former price they are generally from culls, 

 and used mostly for hatching broilers. At the higher prices, eggs can be had 

 from fairly good breeding stock. Packed in baskets or crates, eggs go every- 

 where by express. Long distance shipments seem to give good results quite 

 as often as short ones. 



