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In the winter, members will be getting 

 about Is. 8d. per dozen, plus the trading 

 profit, and the Society shrewdly pays members 

 a higher dividend on the eggs sent in during 

 the winter to discourage members from dis- 

 loyally making their own private bargains 

 when there is an insistent demand for eggs. 

 Moreover, in making contracts for the year, 

 if a dairy company wishes to have twenty 

 dozen a week in November, it has to agree to 

 take sixty dozen a week in April — that number 

 being the most economical quantity to send 

 by rail. 



The eggs are packed in bottomless card- 

 board divisions, with wood-wool placed between 

 each layer inside a strongly made crate, which 

 is returnable. The Society makes these crates 

 for the outside trade. 



It is the old method of weekly markethig 

 in distant parts of England which has given 

 the Calais egg, quickly collected and promptly 

 dispatched from Dover e?i route daily for 

 London, the precedence as a new-laid egg. 

 But at Street the Englishman beats the 

 Frenchman ; and at Street the Englishman 

 beats the Dane at the co-operative rearing 

 and fattening of table birds. The thing 



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