. Annual report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and the Agricultural Experiment Station. New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). IIS4 Rural School Leaflet VI. selecting and keeping eggs for hatching James E. Rice One of the easiest ways to increase the money-earning value of poultry is to improve the quality of the eggs. The best customers usually are willing to pay a higher price for eggs of superior quality. Frequently this difference in price is as high as from five to ten
. Annual report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and the Agricultural Experiment Station. New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). IIS4 Rural School Leaflet VI. selecting and keeping eggs for hatching James E. Rice One of the easiest ways to increase the money-earning value of poultry is to improve the quality of the eggs. The best customers usually are willing to pay a higher price for eggs of superior quality. Frequently this difference in price is as high as from five to ten cents a dozen. Each hen in a good flock should lay on the average from ten to eleven dozen eggs a year. If the eggs are of such quality that they will sell for even two cents more a dozen than ordinary eggs, this would mean a net difference of about twenty-five cents a hen in a year. This extra price is nearly all clear profit, due to the uniformity in size, shape, and color of the Croups of eggs showing the various sizes and shapes that are obtained from almost any flock. All the eggs in the same row were laid by one hen. Note thai the eggs laid by one hen have a characteristic shape. Only uniformly shaped eggs should be marked as first-class The kind of eggs that brings the highest price will depend somewhat on the market. The poultry raiser should first find out what kind of eggs will bring the highest price and pay the largest profit in his market; then produce that kind only. There are several things that can be done that will help to improve the selling quality of the eggs: 1. A pure breed of poultry that will lay eggs as nearly as possible the right size, shape, and color to meet the requirements of the market, should be kept. Such fowls cost little, if any, more to keep than fowls that lay an inferior quality of eggs. 2. Only those eggs should be used for hatching that are of best market. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that
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