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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 five hundred barrels, con- 

 taining forty-seven thousand 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 estimated, 

 from satisfactory returns, that the city of New York, alone, 

 expends nearly a million and a half of dollars, in the purchase 

 of eggs. 



By reference to the Agricultural statistics of the United 

 States, published in 1840, it will bo seen that the value of 

 poultry in the stale of New York was two million three hun- 

 dred and seventy-three thousand and 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. 



The same authority exhibits the total valuation of poultry, 

 in various states and territories of the Union 



States. Value in Dollars. 



Maine, 123,171 



New Hampshire, 97,862 



Vermont, 176,437 



Massachusetts, 540,295 



Rhode Island, 61,492 



Connecticut, 176,659 



New York, 2,373,029 



New Jersey, 412,487 



Pennsylvania, 1,033,172 



