prices in slack times and ship at other times." He tells of a cus- 

 tomer, who, following his advice, filled one side of a crate with 

 hen eggs, the other with duck eggs, and received 16 cents for the 

 former and 32 cents for the duck eggs. He adds: "That was 

 five years ago, and she don't bother much with hens since, but is 

 still keeping ducks." 



Mr. Ferrier has worked out many things for himself. He 

 boards up his yards near the houses for a wind-break; puts the 

 sand in the water-pans instead of the feed; trains his birds to 

 come when called, instead of running away from him. On the 

 white-egg question he says: "We never bought or hatched a 

 tinted egg ; we get new blood by purchasing white eggs, yet once 

 in a while we raise a bird that will lay a tinted egg. We sell you 

 a white egg. Yet once in a while there may be a tinted egg and 

 it's beyond us." He also says that if a bird is worth keeping, 

 she is worth two dollars as a utility layer or market egg producer. 



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