Source and Form in Which Eggs Were Procured, hy States 



The egg marketing firms were questioned concerning source and 

 form in which they received the eggs marketed (Table 9). 



Twenty-seven percent of the eggs marketed by the firms in the five 

 states came from flocks owned by the firms, sixty percent were pur- 

 chased from producers, eight percent were inter-firm transfers, and five 

 percent were obtained from a variety of other sources. 



The proportion of eggs received from flocks owned by the firm 

 varied from eleven percent in Massachusetts and New Hampshire to 

 seventy-four percent in Vermont where all firms were producers. In 

 Maine, fifty-four percent were obtained from owned flocks and in 

 Connecticut seventeen percent were obtained from tbis source. 



Table 9. Source and Form in Which Eggs Were Procured, 



by State, 1965. 



Total volume handled 



(cases) 

 842,915 1,212,410 1,340,565 571,109 



88,723 4,055,222 



t Includes .7 percent that were sized but uncleaned. 

 + About .15 percent. 



* Handled but not purchased, such as trucking, brokering and eggs received on 

 consignment. 



Tbe proportions of eggs purchased from producers in Massachusetts 

 and New Hampshire were 80 percent and 78 percent respectively. Tbe 

 proportions purchased from producers in the other states were as 

 follows: Connecticut 51 percent, Maine 39 percent, and Vermont 24 

 percent. 



Connecticut firms had the highest proportion of inter-firm transfers 

 with one-quarter of their supplies obtained from tbis source. This con- 

 trast with tbe other extreme represented by \ew Hampshire firms, 

 which indicated virtually no eggs received from this source. 



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