58 COMMERCIAL STATISTICS. 
1885 . . 10,000,000 dozen. 
£862 £12,000,000". > 
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1888) 2. 5 24100,000> "+s 
A part of these find a market outside the city, 
but are balanced by the quantity brought in by 
small dealers. 
Carroll D. Wright, in the Massachusetts Cen- 
sus of 1885, gives figures which show the rapid 
increase in the demand and supply of eggs. 
In 1855, poultry and eggs, $52,688. 
In 1885, eggs alone, $1,615,582. 
Of the total number — 7,072,187 1-2 dozen — 
Bristol and Worcester counties produce 1,000,000 
dozen each, and Middlesex ranks next. 
Great Britain receives eggs from France, Ger- 
many, Spain, Portugal and the Azores; eggs 
valued at from $10,000,000 to $15,000,000 
($1,000,000 per month). ) 
In 1875 the value of the eggs imported was 
£2,559,860. 
