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are usually some exceptions due to bidding up on lighter cases of a much 

 wanted producer number. 



The average range between low and high prices for Special Grade 

 Large Brown eggs was between four and five cents a dozen in four rep- 

 resentative months. 



(Table 10 gives some facts about eggs which bring the "highs" and 

 'lows" in representative months.) 



Table 10.- — Producers receiving highest and lowest prices on auction sales of 



Special Grade Large Brown eggs. 

 {With volume sold and average weights and prices.) 



Prices Used by Producers 



When a producer asks the price of eggs he usually refers to either the 

 auction price or the Boston wholesale price for Special Grade Large 

 Brown eggs, for these are the most common standards. 



Actually he will sell several sizes of eggs every month in the year, 

 and it is this composite price from w^hich must be deducted such selling 

 costs as he may have. 



Composite price of all sizes of eggs can be roughly determined by tak- 

 ing specific percentages of the prices of large eggs. 



The composite price of all four sizes of eggs seems to follow fairly 

 closely a certain percentage of the weighted average prices of Special 

 Grade Large Brown eggs, based on auction supplies and returns. The 

 actual return from all sizes varies from a low of about 67 per cent (in 

 September) to about 99 per cent (in Jan. -Feb.) of the weighted average 

 for Special Grade, Large. 



Assuming the auction figures to be representative since they cover a 

 large volume of eggs coming from hundreds of producers, we might use 

 such figures as a method of roughly determining the actual average gross 

 price received by producers. (Prices and percentages for each month 

 are given in Table 11.) 



It is interesting to note that whereas the price of Special Grade Large 

 Brown eggs is 13.3 cents per dozen higher in October than in February 

 the composite price is only 0.8 cents higher in the latter month. 



