. Profitable stock feeding; a book for the farmer . his industry rest until wehave secured for our country such a system as ob-tains in some foreign countries today, most notablyDenmark. It is a hopeful sign that in the best grocer-ies of our inland cities, as well as in those of theEastern and Western seaboards, eggs are now to befound stamped with the name of the producer and thedate on which they were laid. May the time be notfar distant in this great America, when eggs shallbe bought and sold by weight and the man whoputs upon the market an egg of inferior qualityshall render himself liabl
. Profitable stock feeding; a book for the farmer . his industry rest until wehave secured for our country such a system as ob-tains in some foreign countries today, most notablyDenmark. It is a hopeful sign that in the best grocer-ies of our inland cities, as well as in those of theEastern and Western seaboards, eggs are now to befound stamped with the name of the producer and thedate on which they were laid. May the time be notfar distant in this great America, when eggs shallbe bought and sold by weight and the man whoputs upon the market an egg of inferior qualityshall render himself liable to a fine, thus removingthe temptation to sell untlersized, underflavored or CARE OF HENS IN WINTER. 345 ill-flavored eggs. When this is true, our brethren ofthe cities will cheerfuly pay choice prices for eggs,because they are getting an article of guaranteedweight, freshness, and flavor, and we, whose part itis to furnish such eggs, shall find in this appreciationof our efiforts an incentive to put upon the marketthe best that can be Interior anangement in Poultry House and students feeding fowls,Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. CHAPTER XXXIV. TURKEYS AND GUINEAS. Turkey raising, in former years a source of pleas-ure and profit to many farmers, has recently becomeunpopular. Some of our most experienced turkeyraisers, becoming discouraged through numerouslosses, have given up the growing of turkeys—forthe present at least. It is well that tlie alarm besounded ; for, unless something is done to restore tothis bird sufificient vigor of constitution to enable itto withstand the attacks of the dread disease whichis depleting our fiocks in the West and MiddleWest—as well as in New England and the East—the plump form of the turkey in a few years willcease to grace our Thanksgiving table. If we wouldsave to America the beautiful bird which has beena part of her history since the days of the earliestsettlers, we must discover wherein our error lies,and remedy it, i
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