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one locality, or an excess of receipts in one market, is always (if the 

 goods are in good condition) taken care of either by transfer to other 

 points or by storage until receipts decrease in volume. Again, since 

 so large a proportion of the general supplies of poultry and eggs sent 

 to the markets are the surplus of flocks kept primarily to supply 

 home requirements, any unusual reduction in prices is likely to be 

 promptly followed by increased home consumption, as well as by 

 increased market consumption, while on farms where the cost of 

 food is not an important item, large flocks may be held for weeks 

 or months. It is only in special lines like duck growing that 

 overproduction seriously affects growers. Even in these the effects 

 hardly ever continue for more than one season. 



