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THE HISTOKSr OF THE HEN FEVEB. 



were purchased for, made their appearance about the time 

 of hatching the eggs so bought. 



All the old-fashioned fowls were utterly discarded. Co- 

 chin-Chinaism, Shanghaeism, Bother' em Pootrumisn:, was 

 rampant. The fancy egg-trade had "begun to fall off sen- 

 sibly " The people " had had enough of this part of the 

 enterprise, which was destined to prove so "immensely 

 profitable," if "judiciously and skilfully managed;" and 

 the price was reduced to the miserable sum of three to five 

 dollars a dozen, only, as customers chanced to turn up. 



From the commencement of the trade, in 1849, down tb 

 the month of August, 1853, I had a continued and certain 

 sale, however, for every egg deposited upon my premises, 

 at my price. 



But this, though an exception, was not to be wondered 

 S-t. I kept and raised OBly the " genuine " article. 



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