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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 200 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 $350,000 

 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 Phil- 

 adelphia, sends to the New York market, daily, nearly 100 

 barrels of eggs. 



It is stated in a Providence paper, that one small vessel has 

 been employed for twenty-three years in the egg business 

 between Westport, Mass., and that place ; that her trips were 

 about twenty-five annually ; and the number of eggs brought 

 in each trip averaged 400 dozen. The grand total brought 

 from that port, by this single vessel, in the term mentioned, 

 was 3,450,000, and the value of them was $35,500. 



These facts will serve to show the great value of one article 

 of the produce of the poultry-yard, in our own markets. In 

 England and France, however, the value of eggs is immense, 

 as the following statistics will show ; and it is to be regretted 

 that here an approximate value only can be ascertained, on 

 account of the difficulty of procuring statistics of later date, 

 which, no doubt, would show a more astonishing array of 

 figures. 



The number of eggs imported into England, from various 

 parts of the continent, in 1839, was 83,745,723, and the gross 

 amount of duty received for the same was JE29,111. 



The importation of eggs from Ireland, in 1837, to Liverpool 

 and Bristol alone, amounted in value to over $1,250,000. 

 " It appears," says McCulloch, " from official statements, 



