348 Animal Husbandry 
cold storage? In water-glass? Are such eggs as good as fresh ones? 
How are fresh eggs distinguished from those thus preserved ? 
9. What price do eggs bring in your locality? How many eggs 
would have to be sold to pay for the food given the fowls in a year? 
Compare with the food consumed and the milk yield of the dairy cow? 
Which is the more profitable ? 
10. What price per pound live weight does fat poultry bring in your 
vicinity ?) How much must each fowl gain per pound of food consumed 
to pay for the fattening? First, compare with egg production. Which 
is the more profitable, egg production or meat production? Second, 
compare with the beef animal. For the food consumed, which is the 
more profitable, beef production or the production of fat poultry? Name 
advantages fat poultry production has over beef production. Third, com- 
pare with mutton production. For food consumed, which is the more 
profitable, fattening sheep or fattening poultry? Name advantages 
poultry have over sheep. Fourth, compare with fattening swine. For 
food consumed, which is the more profitable, fattening swine or poultry ? 
And fifth, compare the fattening of chickens, turkeys, ducks, and geese. 
Which is the most profitable? Discuss advantages and disadvantages 
of each class of poultry. 
