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quality. The best eggs are packed into new egg cases. 

 The greater part of these selected eggs go into cold 

 storage, only a small portion of them being sent abroad. 



Poultry for export is gathered from the West and 

 Northwest into these same packing houses, where it is 

 crate-fattened and made plump and tender. The packers 

 know that to sell poultry in foreign countries it must be 

 the very best, because it must compete with poultry from 

 European countries where the growers have had years 

 of experience in feeding for the London and Paris mar- 

 kets. The packing houses have never been able to sup- 

 ply enough of this quality to satisfy the foreign trade 

 and for this reason very little, if any, has been offered 

 for sale in this country. 



This should be a lesson in quality to all who grow 

 poultry for the market. The highest prices for market 

 poultry are paid only for the best. It costs but little 

 more to produce the higher grades and the most profit, 

 of course, will be made from growing and selling the best. 



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ADAPTATION OF HOUSES TO LOCALITY 



The many changes and developments in poultry-house 

 construction during the last few years make necessary 

 a careful consideration of all plans, so as to be reason- 

 ably certain of having a house that will be suitable for 

 the locality where it is built. It is comparatively easy 

 to designate the type of house best suited for any one 

 locality but when we attempt to choose the style best 

 suited to all localities the selection is difficult. In 

 America alone we require protection from continual ice 

 and snow on the north and from the burning heat of the 

 tropics on the south. Between these two extremes will 

 be found great variation in weather and temperature. 

 During the months of February and March, it may be 



