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PRICES PER DOZEN FOR EGGS IN LEADING CITIES, NOVEMBER, 1910. 



GiaJcs. 



I.ar^e. 



Whites T 



Browns II 



Mixed III 



? led ill in. 



Whites IV 



Browns V 



Mi.xcd VI 



Sniiill. 



Whites Vll 



Browns VIII 



MIXfii IX 



Miscellauoous X, 



.41 

 .39 

 .36 



.36} 

 .36 



.32} 



.27 

 .26} 

 .24} 

 .16} 



Table VII. Table showing the price per dozen for various grades 

 of eggs iu four principle markets of the United States, showing the 

 great contrast iu price due to ^^ize, shape and color. 



Just a word now in regard to the quality of eggs. Breed for 

 quality. Iu Table 7 are the prices that we secured by writing to large 

 dealers in New York, Philadelphia, Boston- and Chicago, and get 

 the average of those four cities for eggs that were large, medium 

 and small, and among each of those three groups based on size, whites, 

 browns and mixed colors, so that we have 9 groups of eggs, large, 

 medium, small, aud Avhite, brown and mixed colors of each size, 

 and here are the prices in New York, The prices were taken in No- 

 vember, 1910, and the same thing would be essentially true this year, 

 or perhaps — a little lower — large white, 52 cents; large browns, 41^ 

 cents; mixed colors, 37| cents; and yet they are all large, all weigh 

 two ounces and a quarter or more, just the difference in color; 

 all of equal freshness, all of the same candling quality in every way, 

 except the mere matter as to whether these eggs were white, brown 

 or mixed colors. Then come the medium eggs, that would weigh 

 under two ounces, but approximately that; white, 42^ cents; — still 

 more than the large browns; the browns, 35^ cents; mixed colors, 

 32 cents. For small eggs, the white ones, 31 cents; the browns 28 

 cents and the mixed colors 2\\ cents. Now coming to the average 

 of all three cities, we find the large whites, 41 cents; large browns, 

 39 cents; large mixed, 36 cents; mediums, whites, 36^ cents; browns, 

 35 cents; mixed, 32^ cents. Of the small ones, whites, 27 cents; 

 browns, 26^^ cents; mixed, 24^ cents, and extreme difference of 

 244 cents as compared with 41 cents. 



A Member: You speak of freshness; how old has an ^^,% to be 

 until it is not fre.'^h? 



PROF. RICE: Well, sir. that depends upon the season of the 

 year and how collected. Eggs can be gathered once or twice a 

 day, taken directly from the nest, carried immediately to a cool 

 place, having fresh clean air, where they cannot evaporate, and may 

 be kept there for a week's time and no one would ever recognize the 



