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merits with cheesemongers, dairies, chandler-shops, and 

 others, and the result is, that in season the people can now 

 purchase twenty-four eggs for a shilling, rabbits at six- 

 pence per pound. 



If, therefore, it pays the foreigners to collect these arti- 

 cles of food abroad, to pay carriage, freight, agency dues, 

 and all other expenses connected with such vast importa- 

 tions, does it not seem passing strange that we, as a 

 nation, do not even try to see what we can do for our- 

 selves? 



Now, what I propose is this : that when once a poultry- 

 breeding company is formed, that the directors should 

 invite cooperation from poultry-breeders in general, and 

 establish an agency in all the principal towns for supply- 

 ing poultry to such shopkeepers only who will undertake 

 to sell it by weight ; this will now be of no great diffi- 

 culty, as those who sell rabbits would at once undertake 

 the sale of poultry. 



