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cents per dozen. The feed was bran, middlings, corn, 
wheat, meat (mostly bullocks’ livers), green feed 
(chopped alfalfa), shells and less than $5 worth of sundry 
feeds. Prices for the feedstuffs used did not vary widely 
from prices for the same things in this country. Inci- 
dentally it may be stated that these eggs were sold in 
the open market at an average price of almost exactly 31 
cents, American money. 
The best results ever obtained in America from care- 
fully conducted experiments were those of Graham at the 
Ontario Agricultural College. Two pens, one each of 
Barred Plymouth Rocks and Andalusians, each pen con- 
taining 12 hens and one cock, were confined in yards 
from April 22 to Aug. 22, a period of four months, and 
the feed consumed by them was carefully weighed and 
the cost computed. For the four months the feed-cost, 
of Plymouth Rock eggs was 6% cents and the feed-cost 
of eggs from Andalusians was 54/10 cents per dozen. 
This is a remarkably good showing, but the test was 
made during the period of highest laying and at the time 
in the year when feed is likely to be cheapest and the 
smallest quantity required. If the same hens have been 
kept through the year the eggs would probably have 
averaged 10 or 12 cents per dozen for the year. 
The price of eggs in the final market depends alto- 
gether on the quality, and tracing back through every 
change of ownership every buyer has discounted the 
price he could afford to give for eggs in perfect condition 
enough to protect himself from every probable—one 
might almost say every possible—loss that he may ex- 
perience through any lack of quality. To command the 
highest price eggs must be perfectly clean, weigh 2 
ounces each and be perfectly fresh. Every deficiency in 
