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year. But, it would take an egg a day from every one 

 of those farms, to give New Yorl: City alone one egg 

 apiece for that day, for each dweller within her greater 

 limits. It doesn't seem much to ask, that each person 

 shall have one egg a day ; but, with eggs at five cents 

 apiece, as they were at wholesale at midwinter, it would 

 take ^250,000 to give each of those hungry New Yorkers 

 their one egg each for that one day. If they had it every 

 eiay — ah me ; you figure it ! I cannot believe my figures. 

 They make it over $90,000,000. Just for one egg a day 

 all the year for one city full of people eager for eggs ! 



Eggs have been going up, up, up because demand 

 exceeded supply, much of the year. What if the de- 

 mand for poultry instruction in the schools should kill 

 the goose that lays the golden eggs } What if we, one 

 day, raise so many eggs- that prices go down, down, 

 down? Aweel, that day is dim in the future ; and, at 

 all events, the hungry people will be fed, and that will 

 take one care from the shoulders of the social reformers. 



