Whatever may be the decline in the price of eggs their social
movement is clearly upwards. The following passage from _The Croydon
Advertiser_ gives an admirable life-history of the egg, from shell to
profit-sharing:--
"Eggs will be dated and graded and sold accordingly, and as soon
as they have done laying fattened for table purposes, also young
cockerels. They will be killed and plucked, and the feathers will
be sorted and sold in the best markets. So you see they will
receive full market price for their produce; then if they are
shareholders they will receive a further profit in the difference
between the cost and the selling, also the very big amounts
received for the skins and the feathers."
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[Illustration: HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL.
_Oldest Inhabitant._ "I NEVER EXPECTED TO LIVE TILL THE END OF THE
WAR, MA'AM; BUT NOW I'M HOPING TO BE SPARED TO SEE THE BEGINNING OF
THE NEXT ONE."]
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