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by several statisticians, working separately, and using 
different methods, that the revenue derived from eggs is 
about two-thirds of the total amount received from the 
poultry industry. In New England in the East and in 
the states commonly called the Coast States in the West, 
those in the Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coast sections 
of the country, eggs are uniformly high in price. In the 
southern states eggs are almost uniformly low in price, 
as compared with other sections. Heretofore it has been 
accepted as a foregone conclusion that eggs would be 
high from Novy. 1 to about the latter part of February. It 
is common for farmers to look forward to Easter Sunday 
as the time after which there will be a sharp decline. It 
seems that the rule may be abrogated in the future, as 
during 1909 instead of declining eggs actually rose in 
price during April and May. The cost of producing a 
dozen eggs has not definitely been determined. Some 
Canadian estimates indicate that about 6 cents a dozen 
would be the proper figure. Experienced poultrymen in 
this country estimate that the cost is from 10 to 12 cents 
a dozen. A few years ago the experiment station at 
Cornell University undertook to settle this question 
through the co-operation of a number of poultrykeepers. 
The reports varied so widely in the matter of feed-cost 
that they were not of much value, especially as some of 
them were admittedly more in the nature of guesses than 
carefully kept records. 
In the Australian laying competition, beginning April 
1, 1908, and ending March 31, 1909, 300 hens in their first 
laying year, divided into flocks of 6, were fed at a cost of 
$568.62, counting the pound Sterling at $4.86 American 
money. These hens laid 4,506 dozen eggs, almost ex- 
actly 180 each, the feed cost per dozen being: about 12.6 
