One Thousand Ways to Make Money by Page Fox

733. DECEMBER LAYERS.--With a trifling expense you can have eggs at

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Christmas as well as at Easter. The price is often more than double at the former season. Connect with hot water-pipes and keep your hens warm. A cold hen never lays an egg. A poultry expert says if a flock is well cared for the whole year round, it should pay annually for each hen $1 net. At the same rate a flock of four hundred would bring a net income of $400.