the producer has any skill at all in niarketing. But I leave it to 

 the good sense of the reader whether the Indian Runner, so proli- 

 fic and quick maturing; so likely therefore, to increase remai"k- 

 ably fast, would not better think twice before she lays a green egg 

 for the average buyer. For, it is the average buyer to whom we 

 must cater, in all market offerings. We can educate him, but it 

 is slow work, and it takes a skilled market man to do it. Our 

 Irish population, it is said, do not have to be educated; they swea.- 

 by green wherever they find it. 



When we come to the third point, the consideration of the 

 Indian Runner egg as a household luxury, we can make out a 

 tremendous case. For while this "luxury"' delights the producer 

 by selling at special seasons, occasionally, at twice the price of 

 hens' eggs, it usually brings but five to ten cents more a dozen, 

 and late in the season sells on a par with hens' eggs. The eggs 

 are proportionately cheaper for the consumer than hens' eggs, 

 just as soon as the latter get above twenty cents. Eggs fall below 

 this figure so seldom nowadays that it is safe to state that the 

 ducks' eggs are always cheaper than hens' eggs, if' only ten centj 

 more a dozen. Two of these eggs will, at any time, take the 

 place of three hens' eggs, even when the latter are fully up to 

 tht standard, market size, which is two ounces. No eggs were 

 ever more delicately sweet than those of the Indian Runner; so 

 that it may fairly be said that we shall soon have a luxury which 

 is not extravagant, and which, it is hoped, may soon become plen- 

 tiful on our markets. At the date of this writing, only a few 

 favored buyers can have them, because there are not nearly 

 enough to go around. The cities have hardly heard of the Indian 

 Runner, as yet. 



I am fortunate in being able to report a household test, made 

 by Mrs. Grant M. Curtis, the editor of a Table Department in the 

 "Reliable Poultry Journal." A breeder of the white-egg type, in 

 western Mew York, sent to Mrs. Curtis's office some eggs for 



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