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THE BEGINNER IN POULTRY 



well toward the top, and a Rhode Island Red pen from 

 America was eighteenth in a list of about 100 contestants. 

 In this competition, 4 pens rolled up market incomes 

 above ^24 for each pen of 6 birds. This is $4 or more 

 for each hen from eggs alone. In two cases, the aver- 

 age income was $4.81. 



Pen of White Wyandottes, International Competition. Agricultural College, 

 Storrs, Connecticut 



The question 

 of which can be 

 consideration of 

 pect it to be a 

 classes would 

 American type 

 Asiatics most, 

 real question is . 



as to most profit narrows chiefly to that 

 fed most cheaply. Going back to the 

 classes, we may say that we might ex- 

 general rule that the Mediterranean 

 eat least, birds of the medium-sized 

 next, and the ten- and twelve-pound 

 This is only common sense, and the 

 In what proportion does the feed con- 



