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"Considering differences in the quality of the eggs quoted there has been no 

 considerable advance in wholesale values of fresh-gathered eggs, either during 

 the season of flush or of short production, in the period 1900-1910 as compared 

 with a similar period before cold storage was available. 



"The average prices of fresh gathered and storage eggs taken together were 

 lower during the season of scarcity in the period since cold storage has been 

 available than were the prices for fresh-gathered eggs before cold storage wsa 

 available, notwithstanding a well-known advance in the prices of nearly all 

 c-ommodities during the decade, beginning 1900. 



" Accumulations of eggs in cold storage during the season of excess produc- 

 tion are practically exhausted before the next season of flush begins. 



"The ability to carry eggs in cold storage from the period of gx'eatest pro- 

 duction throughout the later period of shortage greatly increases the oppor- 

 tunity for profitable production without enhancing the average prices and 

 adds to the food supply." 



Monthly crop report (U. S. Dept. Apr., Mo. Crop Rpt., 2 (1916), No. 6, pp. 

 .'f9-60, fig. 1). — This number contains the usual data regarding the range of 

 prices at important markets, average price paid to producer, and estimated 

 farm valu&s on May 15; together with data concerning the acreage in water- 

 melons and cantaloups in 1915 and 1916 and the percentage of the crop har- 

 vested in each month, the condition on June 1 of the truck crops and the prin- 

 cipal agricultural crops, and the estimated annual supply of potatoes in the 

 United States. 



A special report on long-staple cottons is included, indicating that 7.4 per 

 cent of the total crop is of long-staple variety, which in an ordinary season 

 :imounts to approximately 825,000 bales. According to this report, of the 

 cotton produced in the principal cotton-producing States, the following per- 

 centages of the total are long-staple varieties: Arizona, 90; Mississippi, 23; 

 Missouri, 20; California, 20; Arkansas, 14.4; and Oklahoma, 13.5. There is 

 also included a special article by O. F. Cook on The New Long-Staple C/Ottons. 



A recent statement issued by the U. S. Bureau of the Census regarding the 

 manufacture of wagons and carriages is cited which indicates that the num- 

 ber of carriages manufactured in 1914 was 34 per cent less than in 1909 and 

 the number of wagons 9 per cent less. 



A special inquiry regarding the months in which hogs are slaughtered on 

 farms shows that 32.1 per cent are slaughtered in December, 20.3 per cent 

 in January, and 19.5 per cent in November; that is, practically 72 per cent of 

 tlie hogs slaughtered on farms are slaughtered during these three months. 



Acreag'e and live stock returns of England and Wales (Bd. Agr. and Fish- 

 eries [London], Agr. Statis., 50 (1915). No. 1, pp. 75). — This report continues 

 data previously noted (E. S. R., 33, p. 789). 



[Agricultural statistics of Hungary] (Ungar. Statis. Jahrb., n. ser., 21 

 (1913), pp. 73-119). — ^These pages continue data previously noted (E. S. R., 34, 

 p. 59G). 



[Agricultural statistics in Switzerland] (Statis. Jahrb. Schweiz, 23 (1914), 

 pp. 5/f-65). — The.se pages continue data previously noted (E. S. R., 33, p. 193). 



Agricultural statistics of British India(Statis. Abs. Brit. India, 49(190//-5— 

 1913-14), pp. 126-135). — This report continues data previously noted (E. S. R., 

 83, p. 295). 



Statistical returns of crops in Southei-n Rhodesia, 1914-15, E. A. Nobbs 

 and B. Haslewood (Rhodesia Agr. Jour., 13 (1916), No. 1, pp. 28-44). — These 

 pages contain a general description of the condition of agriculture in Southern 

 Rhodesia, together with statistical data showing the area under crops, the 

 total yields, the amount of silage, and the area of irrigated lands, with sources 

 of water supply. 



