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seventy- four thousand four hundred and twenty three 

 dollars; the average sales of one dealer alone amounting 

 to twelve hundred dollars per week for the whole year. 

 The amount of sales for the whole city of Boston, for 

 the same year, (so far as obtained,) was over one mil- 

 lion of dollars. 



" The amount of sales of eggs, in and around, the 

 Quincy Market, for 1848, was one million one hundred 

 and twenty-nine thousand, seven hundred and thirty- five 

 dozen, which, at 18 cents per dozen, (the lowest price 

 paid III cents, and the highest 30 cents per dozen, as 

 proved by the average purchases of one of the largest 

 dealer's books,) makes the amount paid for eggs to be 

 two hundred and three thousand, three hundred and 

 fifty- two dollars and thirty cents. And from informa- 

 tion already obtained from other egg merchants, in the 

 same city, the whole amount of sales will not fall much, 

 if any, short of a million of dollars for 1848. 



" The average consumption of eggs, at three of the 

 hotels, was more than two hundred dozen each day, for 

 the year 1848. 



" The value of.eggs brought from the Penobscot and 

 Kennebec Rivers, during the running season of the 

 steamboats, plying between Boston and those two 

 rivers, was more than three hundred and fifty thousand 

 dollars for that season. 



" In one day, from Cincinnati, Ohio, it is stated in one 

 of the public journals, there were shipped 500 barrels, 

 containing 47,000 dozen of eggs. One dealer in the egg 

 trade, at Philadelphia, sends to the New- York Market, 

 daily, nearly one hundred barrels of eggs. It is esti- 

 mated, from satisfactory returns, that the city of New 

 York alone expends nearly a million and a half of 

 dollars per annum, in the purchase of eggs. 



" By reference to the agricultural statistics of the 

 United States, published in 1840, it will be seen that the 

 value of poultry in the State of New York, was two 

 million, three hundred and seventy-three thousand arid 

 twenty-nine dollars ; which was more than the value of 

 its sheep, the entire value of its neat cattle, and nearly 

 five times the value of its horses and mules. 



