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poultry, and that is something we are very much interested in. I am not 

 as personally acquainted with him as with Mr. Benjamin, but I have 

 known so much of Mr. Opperman, and his wonderful work, and I have 

 read so much of his work in the country, that I consider him one of the 

 greatest specialists on the subject he is going to talk about. He lives 

 at Three Oaks Villa, Berwyn, Md., and there isn't a question, from the 

 number of notches there should be in a White Leghorn's comb to the 

 kind of eggs that a White Leghorn or Plymouth Rock should produce, 

 that he can't answer. It is a question that he is familiar with and I take 

 pleasure in introducing to you Mr. Charles L. Opperman, who will now 

 speak to us. [Applause.] 



