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vantage to have the storage houses located near a large dis- 

 tributing center so there may be no unnecessary delay in 

 getting the eggs to the consumers. It is doubtful if the 

 business could be as successfully handled with smaller 

 plants located near the points of production rather than 

 centers of distribution, but in certain producing sections 

 where there is a considerable local market small co- 

 operative plants might be established with profit. 



The Future. "Will the business of storage increase? 

 With continued improvement in refrigeration and in ex- 

 tension of the service so that the egg will be better taken 

 care of after it leaves the refrigerator and till it gets to 

 the consumer, there will be a strong tendency to an in- 

 crease in the business. Another factor, however, will be 

 operating in the other direction. The producer by breed- 

 ing better layers, fowls that will lay a larger percentage 

 of eggs in the fall and winter, will be doing his best to put 

 the cold storage plant out of business. But that is not im- 

 minent, desirable as it might be from the standpoint of the 

 consumer as well as the producer. Greater progress must 

 be made than has ever been made in poultry breeding if 

 any one now living is to see the day when winter egg pro- 

 duction is to equal that of the spring and summer. The 

 best we can hope is that the poultryman will produce better 

 winter layers, and that the winter layers will, in part, re- 

 lieve cold storage of the burden of maintaining a proper 

 distribution of eggs throughout the year. 



Liquid Preservation of Eggs. For home purposes eggs 

 may be successfully preserved in a liquid preservative. 

 Liquid preservation was formerly used commercially to a 

 considerable extent, but the business has been largely 

 superseded by the cold storage method. Where cold storage 

 is out of the question a great many eggs are "put down" 

 in some liquid preservative. 



