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broken on arrival. Of eggs classified as 

 " Russian " the total number brought to Great 

 Britain in 1902 was 640,000,000. 



Somewhat similar conditions prevail in Italy, 

 from which country we received 315,000,000 

 eggs in 1902. The through rate from Porde- 

 none (Venetia) to London for 10-ton lots is 

 £43 16,s., the dealers guaranteeing to send 800 

 of such lots, or a total of 8,000 tons of eggs, in 

 the course of a year. In Denmark, thanks to 

 effective organization, the value of the export 

 trade in eggs rose from about £400,000 in 1895 

 to over £1,270,000 in 1902, the total number of 

 eggs imported into great Britain from Denmark 

 in the latter year being 422,000,000. Bulgaria, 

 too, has increased her exportation of eggs three- 

 fold since 1901, and has now become a strong 

 competitor of Italy in supplying eggs to 

 Belgium, the quantities she is sending there 

 representing a value of about £90,000 a year. 

 Even Egypt is exporting eggs in such quantities 

 that the price of them for home consumption 

 has materially advanced in the land of the 

 Pharaohs, where so recently as 1895 they could 

 be bought at the rate of 30 for 2%d. In 1897 

 Egypt exported 14,000,000 eggs of a value 

 of £12,(383; whereas in 1900 she exported 

 60,000,000 (of which 49,000,000 came to the 



