THE BUILDING OF THE FARM 25 



More Money in Eggs 



During all this time, however, we were studying 

 the poultry question, and had arrived at the conclu- 

 sion that there was more money in eggs, properly 

 produced and marketed, than in any other branch. 

 One of the difficulties we met with in our investiga- 

 tions was the fact that so many different writers had 

 such a variety of ideas on the same subject, and prac- 

 tically no two of them agreed on any given part of 

 poultry culture. What seemed to us even more con- 

 fusing was that, in most cases, the writer, summed 

 up his article by contradicting everything he had said 

 in the previous chapters. We were finally forced to 

 the conclusion that the raising of poultry had not yet 

 been reduced to a science, but was almost entirely 

 made up of guesses. In our investigations, however, 

 we found in the writings of the late Prof. Gowell, 

 of Maine, an entirely different condition. He was 

 the first man, so far as our observations went, who 

 worked on the principle that effect followed cause, 

 in poultry as in everything else. We studied his bul- 

 letins with great interest, and decided we would en- 

 deavor to prove that the same results gotten by him 

 could be duplicated by others. 



Adopted White Leghorns 



We had also been studying the condition of the 

 egg market, so far as New York and vicinity was 



