On the basis of these data, it appeared that nearly sixty percent of 

 the eggs procured from producers were sized and cleaned before being 

 received by the marketing firm. Only thirty percent of the eggs received 

 from producers were unsized and uncleaned. The remaining 10 percent 

 were unsized but cleaned. 



Source and Form in Which Eggs Were 

 Procured, by Marketing Group 



Data concerning the source and form in which eggs were procured 

 by marketing group are presented in Table 10. The differences among 

 the groups indicated the distinguishing characteristics of the firms in- 

 cluded within each category. 



Firms in the producer group procured 88 percent of their eses from 

 flocks that they owned while the packer group firms purchased 88 per- 

 cent of their eggs from producers. The wholesaler and miscellaneous 

 group firms owned no flocks. The wholesaler group accounted for the 

 largest percentage of inter-firm movement of eggs and purchased most 

 of its eggs at least partially processed. 



Table 10. Source and Form in Which Eggs Were Procured, 

 by Marketing Group, 1965. 



* Includes: assemblers, breaker, truckers. 



t Includes 5.8 percent that were sized but uncleaned in the Misc. group — 0.2 

 percent of total. 



§ Less than V& of one percent. 



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

 consignment. 



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