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Your chances of selling eggs of another breed are slight 

 in comparison. One can work up a sale for eggs from 

 other breeds, and it is often possible to get better prices 

 for them than for the Leghorns, but we are planning for 

 the surest end of the thing. Again, you may lean towara 

 the American breeds, such as the Rhode Island Reds, or 

 the good old Plymouth Rock. You cannot afford them. 

 They lay brown eggs and brown eggs are discounted in 

 price in the primary markets. If you have just a hand- 

 ful you can sell them to your neighbors or possibly to 

 the corner groceryman at regular prices, but you cannot 

 do that with the product of an egg farm. Other objec- 

 tions might be advanced but it is a waste of time to dis- 

 cuss the matter. 



We have often been asked about the advantages of 

 crossing breeds. The work of Prof. Dryden leaves no 

 room for doubt as to the advantages that may be derived 

 from a scientific crossing of breeds. But until you are 

 well along toward a comfortable financial surplus, derived 

 from your egg-farming activities (which means that you 

 will have had a considerable and varied experience in 

 handling chickens), you had better leave experiments in 

 crossing breeds to the other fellow; and what has been 

 said as to the sale of hatching eggs applies to the cross- 

 breeding matter also. 



Profits to Be Expected 



An unqualified estimate of probable profits to be de- 

 rived from egg-farming cannot be made at the time this 

 is written (August, 1919). If the prices of eggs and of 

 poultry feed stuffs remain at the level that has prevailed 



