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over other parts of the kingdom is in the quality of the~birds 

 obtainable. Many promising efforts to establish fattening centres 

 elsewhere have been seriously handicapped or have failed for 

 that reason alone, and even in Sussex and West Kent the 

 difficulty is to secure a sufficient supply at the seasons when 



White Leghorns. 



prices are highest. Where such fattening establishments are 

 near by, provided that the conditions are favourable, farnaers do 

 well to breed specially to meet their requirements, as they pay 

 prices which leave a substantial profit to the raiser, with the 

 minimum of trouble. This is the experience of the Sussex 

 rearers, who find it more profitable than egg production, in spite 

 of the fact that the demand for eggs in London and on the 

 South coast is much greater than the supply. We cannot 



