COMMERCIAL STATISTICS. 59 
French eggs are often retailed in England 
within a week after they are laid. 
In 1813 France sent to England 1,754,140 
egos. In 1878 there came from the Continent 
391,174,000,000 eggs. 
Berlin requires about 200,000,000 eggs yearly. 
The estimate of food per capita in Paris, as 
annually published, allows each person fifteen 
dozen or 180 eggs. 
Soyer estimated that the average man con- 
sumed 24,000 eggs in his lifetime. 
Large bakeries or biscuit factories use often 
80,000 eges daily. 
An ocean steamer takes 15,000 to 20,000 for 
each trip. 
Hotels use from 1000 to 5000 eggs every day. 
Gladstone, as reported by the London Live 
Stock Journal (five years ago), says: 
