. Egg and poultry raising at home . Still Fig. 5.—Silver-pencilled Hamburgh Hen. be kept, and the only object is to get plenty of eggs, good cross-breds perhaps have the advantage, for they are certainly cheaper to buy, in the first place, though it must be remembered that if they are to be sold at the end of their laying year, before they go into a moult, they will only realise a low price in comparison with that which purchased them. We can now go on to the subject of the pure breeds,

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