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If his eggs are uniform in size and all of one 

 color he can readily get five cents per dozen above the 

 market price. If his broilers are all of one color and 

 uniform in size in the same crate they will bring one 

 or two cents per pound more than if a mixed lot. 

 Uniformity counts for something. If the product is 

 uniformly good it counts for much. The farmer, the 

 producer, may just as well have the advanced price as 

 to allow it to go to the middleman; who sorts up his 

 mixed products into uniform packages and gets well 

 paid for doing so. — [T. E. Orr, Pennsylvania. 



Value of Thoroughbreds — I had a good object 

 lesson of the greater profit of pure bloods last spring. 

 A pen of pure bloods I received and graded, laid one- 

 third as many eggs as eighteen times their number of 

 mixed hens with free range. The treatment and feed 

 were the same except the mixed hens had range of the 

 place. Is it not an eye-opener? Then they are pleas- 

 ing to the eye. I cannot afford to bother longer with 

 loafers. — [Emma Clearwaters, Indiana. 



Some years ago I ventured to pay $i a head for 

 three hens and a cock of full blood White Wyandotte 

 stock. I bred from one particular hen, a beauty, very 

 vigorous and a persistent layer of a large, dark brown 

 ^gg. I kept nine splendid pullets from her, besides 

 selling quite a number, and then sold her and the cock 

 for $2 apiece, as much as I paid for the four original 

 birds. From the nine pullets I sold the next spring 

 during the hatching season more than 700 eggs with- 

 out advertising. For these eggs I received from two 

 to four times as much as the store prices. I might 

 have sold many more if I had had them. I take a far 

 greater interest in beautiful thoroughbred fowls than 

 in the common barnyard stock. They are much more 

 attractive, too, being' all of the same color and size. 

 Neighbors passing by and seeing them cannot resist 



