Eggs are Profitable at all Seasons.
Eggs are higher in winter because the cost of production is greater at that season ; but though eggs may be lower in price during the summer, yet they give a profit, however, unless selling at a point too far distant from market to allow of favorable opportunities in prices. But in summer the conditions for laying are more favorable, and the number of eggs secured is greater. The fowls require less attention, can pick up a portion of their food, while that which may be fed them is procured at less expense. Be the advantages what they may, at auy season of the 3 ear, it requires but a few moments’ consideration on the part of the farmer to be convinced that eggs bring better prices, compared with cost of production, than any other articles on the farm, and especially is this the case when it is considered that while the hens may be fed liberally, yet the labor bestowed on them, compared with other stock, is very slight, and for that reason they are always profitable.
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New Zealand Mail, 22 April 1887, Page 15
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