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Show 'Toultry always pays," is the silly headline of an eastern exchange, ex-change, which states in support of the intimation of the headline, that-"with that-"with -eggs at six and seven cents a dozen the thrifty farm wife pays for her di esses and the grocery bills of the household." The fact is that the thrifty housewife runs to the old man's corn bin, takes all she wants for her fowls and sells the produce for whatever she can get in trade. Neither she nor any. body else knows whether it pays or not It coats about $1 a year to keep a hen with grain at normal prices, and ten dozen eggs is a maximum. Ten times seven are seveuty. Denver Field and Farm-Here Farm-Here eggs are 10 to 15 cents a dozen and it will cost about $1. 50 to keep a hen.. So a body should always get the best breeds of fowls in order to "make it pay." |