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published that year at our agricultural college, and the 1913 

 prices were obtained from our local dealers on ton lots. It 

 is evident from these figures that the prices have almost 

 doubled in the last fifteen years. 



In regard to the prices of eggs and dressed poultry, we 

 found the following quoted in " Farm Poultry " for the 

 month of November, 1898 : — 



Eggs (fresh), 26 to 28 cents per dozen. 



Dressed poultry, 13 and 14 cents per pound. 



For the year 1913 the following prices were obtained 

 at the Boston markets, on the eighteenth day of last No- 

 vember : — 



Eggs (fresh), 59 to 60 cents per dozen. 



Poultry, 20 to 22 cents per pound. 



From this it is seen that eggs have practically doubled in 

 price in the last fifteen years, but that dressed poultry 

 has not. 



This comparison, on the whole, is not a very fair one, 

 because we are taking the price of eggs when they are the 

 highest of any period of the year, and poultry prices when 

 they are the lowest, because at this time the market is flooded 

 with all kinds of roasters, including hens, chickens, cocks, 

 etc. This surplus is dumped upon the market for whatever 

 it will bring. 



Chickens in the Corn Field. 

 In husking and weighing the corn taken from one row 

 across our patch at the college poultry plant this season, we 

 found that the yield was 58 bushels per acre. We considered 

 this an excellent showing, because corn was on the same 

 ground last year, and the only fertilizer we used was about 

 $1 worth of potash per acre. Poultry ran on the ground both 

 last year and this. Furthermore, part of the land was cul- 

 tivated only once during the season and the remainder only 

 twice. Not a weed was to be found in the corn field at any 

 time. The chicks were quite large when the corn was 



