20 A DISSERTATION ON EGGS 



United Kingdom), representing a value of 

 £83,000. Eggs now, also, constitute the 

 principal item of export from Morocco, nearly 

 50,000,000 having been shipped in the course of 

 a single season, though the trade has sprung up 

 only within the last few years. The eggs are 

 small in size, but they are of good quality, and 

 large quantities are procurable at a moderate 

 price. 



Much progress has undoubtedly been made in 

 England and Ireland of late years in regard to 

 egg production ; but there can be no suggestion 

 that anything yet done in either country has 

 rendered unnecessary a large importation of 

 foreign eggs. If a wholesale dealer in London 

 wanted 500 cases, he would find it practically 

 hopeless to get them either in England or in 

 Ireland, except, perhaps, after going to infinite 

 trouble, and waiting a long time ; but a tele- 

 graphed order to his agent at Podwoloczyska 

 would bring the whole 500 cases to him in little 

 more than a week. 



From this same centre we get an illustration 

 of the extent to which eggs are used for 

 purely industrial purposes. There are at 

 Podwoloczyska three albumen factories, each 

 of which consumes annually from three to 

 three and a half million eggs in manufacturing 



