Oct., 1937] 



Eggs Under the Hammer 



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GRADES OF EGGS 



About 59 Per Cent of All Brown Eggs Are Specials, Large 



The percentage of eggs in the principal grades of brown eggs for 1934- 

 1935 and 1935-1936 as sold on the New Hampshire Egg Auction are 

 indicated below in Table 14. (Monthly averages.) 



Table 14. Percentage of the principal grades of eggs sold on the 

 New Hampshire Egg Auction over a two-year period 



*lncludes dirties, poor shells, undergrades, and culls. 



(See Fig. 12 for percentages 1934-1936 inclusive) . 



Price per Dozen and Price per Pound of Large*, Medium*, Pullet and Peewee 



Brown Eggs 

 (With volume of all weights sold — New Hampshire Egg Auction, October, 1936) 



♦(Specials) 



300m 

 ISO »J 

 200B$ 



150 P? 

 -100 \^\ 

 SO \ 



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Figure 11. The price between grades is especially large between medium and 

 large sizes. A rise in price per dozen within the grade occurs and this is espe- 

 cially sharp in the medium size. Changes in price per pound within grades are 

 variable. 



