EGGS AND INDUSTRIES 21 



processes, 1 lb. of albumen being extracted 

 from every 7 lbs. of white of eggs. The albumen 

 is used for printing textiles, in the making of 

 porcelain, in sugar factories, and for other 

 purposes. It is sent to various parts of Austria, 

 to Germany, France, Great Britain, and to 

 the United States, in cases of about 2 cwts., 

 the value representing from £5 5s. to £5 10,y. 

 per cwt. The yolks of the eggs are worked up 

 into a material for dressing glove leather. 



A large proportion of the foreign eggs reach- 

 ing this country travel so long a distance, and 

 fetch so small a price on the market, that the 

 through freight charged for their conveyance 

 must necessarily be low if they are to be carried 

 at all, and such lowness of freight is held to be 

 warranted alike by these circumstances and by 

 the vast quantities in which the eggs come. If 

 the English railway companies, assuming the 

 functions of Imperial Parliament, sought to im- 

 pose a "hostile tariff" on foreign eggs by insist- 

 ing on a higher rate for transit over their own 

 lines they might either stop some of the trade 

 altogether or else simply cause it to reach Lon- 

 don via the Thames ; but there would not 

 necessarily be much direct benefit to the British 

 farmer himself. As already shown, he can have 

 the monopoly of the market for new-laid eggs 



