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lished, returns the number of eggs consumed in the French metropolis at 

 175,000,000, or 175 to each liead of the population, worth about §1 35. 

 The A-alue of the eggs consumed in Paris one year would be also about 

 £300,000 ; but probably three quarters of a million sterling would be a 

 nearer estimate of the poultry and eggs consumed annually in Paris. 



The consumption and prices may be judged of from the following figures: 



Number. Av. pr. per 1,000. 



18">1 12',),7:«,-J'.»9 42f. GO crntimes. 



1S52 100,000,000 41f. 35 etntimes. 



JSOJ 175,000,000 



Number. Av.pr. per 1,000. 



1847 120,940,724 57 francs. 



1848 10fi,747,222 48f. 40 centimes, 



1849 11:5,587,732 46f. 70 centimes. 



1850 124,597,150 43f. 93 centimes. 



A number of Galirjnani''s Messenger says that, in 1815, the number of 

 eggs exported from Prance was 1,700,000 ; in 1816 it rose to 8,000,000. 

 Six years later, in 1822, the number was 55,000,000 ; and 99,500,000 in 

 1824. In 1830 the number declined to 55,000,000 ; then gradually increased 

 until 1845, when it was 88,200,000, for which an export duty of 114,000 

 francs was paid. ISTearly all these eggs go to England. Tiie yearly consump- 

 tion of eggs in Paris is estimated at 105,000,000, and the total consumption 

 of all Prance at 9,000,000,000 ; so that, reckoning eggs at a sou, this single 

 article represents 465,000,000 francs. 



210. The Egg Trade in this f oiiiitry. — Stcaml)oats and railways have done 

 much to increase and improve tiie trade in poultry and eggs, in butter and 

 milk, as well as in carcass meat and fish of all kinds, for the supply of largo 

 cities and dense populations in Europe and America, situate far from the 

 chief scats of production or fishing. The poultry dealers of Xew York 

 made their appearance on the shores of the great American lakes within a 

 few days after the regular trains were in motion on the Erie Railroad. 

 Poultry and eggs were swept away by them at an advance of 25 to 30 per 

 cent, on their ordinary value, and a decided stimulus has been given to the 

 production of poultry and eggs. 



The British American provinces arc now supplying the United States 

 towns with eggs, which are imported dutyfree under the Reciprocity Treaty. 

 1,260 dozen eggs from Nova Scotia were entered very recently at the Cus- 

 tom-house, Boston, in one day. In the season of 1852, about 8,000 barrels 

 of eggs, containing 84 dozen per barrel, were shipped from the port of Mon- 

 treal to the United States, and sold at about 16c. the dozen. 



One merchant in Marion County, Ohio, has shipped in one season 124,950 

 dozen of eggs, in 1,785 barrels, costing, at 7 cents a dozen, $8,746 50. 



211. Packing Eggs for Market. — There is probably in no one article of the 

 same relative value so much depreciation and loss from injudicious manage- 

 ment and unskillful packing as in eggs. This is best illustrated in the 

 Western trade, especially during the warm season, when the average price 

 of Western eggs rules, say, three to five cents per dozen below those from thia 

 State ; but at the same time we liavc some 'Western marks that bring nearly 

 or quite as much as the best State, showing conclusively that it is entirely 

 practicable to forward them in prime order from the far West. If the fol- 



