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managers, making them feel that their future in connection 

 with the egg movement is dependent upon loyal acceptance 

 and adoption of regulations laid down for collecting, grading 

 and testing of produce, co-operation for sale will fail to 

 accomplish its purpose." 



Still more needs to be done to bring home to the minds of 

 poultry keepers the fact that they must do all they can to 

 further the aim of the movement in advancing the character 

 and quality of the home produce, thus capturing the highest 

 class of trade. 



Societies should be encouraged to develop egg-collecting 

 branches of their present work, and to bring all possible 

 persuasion to bear on their members to send in their supplies, 

 instead of being content only with purchase of requirements 

 from their society. 



Measures might well be taken to ensure control and 

 continuity of British supplies. "It is generally admitted/' 

 the Society's report for 1910 further says, "that the 

 success of the Danish egg societies is largely due to the 

 regularisation of supplies by adoption on a large scale of 

 preservation, or ' pickling/ The advantages of this system 

 are not alone that eggs for cooking purposes are available 

 during the periods of scarcity, but that prices are steadied 

 by the eggs being kept off the market in the cheap season. 

 As production of eggs increases in the United Kingdom, the 

 tendency will be to overload the market and so reduce 

 returns." 



Pressure, again, should be brought to bear on the local 

 authorities concerned in technical education to appoint a 

 larger number of practical instructors in poultry keeping. 



OVERLAPPING. 



For some time it has been apparent that there is con- 

 siderable risk of societies engaged in the sale of eggs and 

 poultry competing with each other in the great consuming 

 centres. Already this has been experienced to a limited 

 extent, but with increase of production and of local societies 



