Table 7. Total and Average Volume by Marketing Group, 1965. 



Marketing 

 Group 



Number 

 of Firms 



Total Annual Volume 



Volume 

 per Firm 



Total and average 

 volume of firms 

 surveyed 



105 



4,055,222 



100 



38,624 



Includes: assemblers, breaker and truckers. 



Procurement Practices 

 Source of Eggs Handled by State of Origin 



Almost half (48 percent ) of the eggs handled by the one hundred 

 and five firms interviewed originated in Maine (Table 8). Each of the 

 four groups also procured the largest percent of its eggs from Maine. 

 Apparently the sources for the wholesaler group were spread more 

 widely among the states as only 38 percent of its eggs came from Maine, 

 with 26 percent from Massachusetts, 17 percent from New Hampshire 

 and 14 percent from Connecticut. 



The packer group obtained more egg from outside New England 

 than any of the other groups. Information gathered generally listed 

 New York City firms as the source. Undoubtedly these eggs were pro- 

 duced further away than that. The few eggs in the producer group 

 originating outside New England were picked up in New York State by 

 a small producer in Vermont. 



Table 8. Source of Eggs Handled by State of Origin 

 and Marketing Group, 1965. 



Includes: assemblers, breaker and truckers. 

 Less than Mo of 1 percent. 



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