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to the eye of the purchaser. The housewife may also prefer eggs of 

 uniform size to use in recipes. 



Few Unclassified Fresh Eggs Sold 



Of 1068 dozens of "fresh" eggs inspected by the Department of Agri- 

 culture in 88 New Hampshire townis only 4.7 per cent were sold as 

 unclassified. Of these, 66.7 per cent averaged large in size, 32 per 

 cent were mediums, and 1.3 per cent were pullets. 



Under the law all eggs must be marked as to size; namely, Large, 

 Medium, Pullet, Peewee, or Unclassified. The unclassified size was 

 established to take care of producers who had too small a volume to 

 separate eggs into the regular sizes. However, some of the western 

 eggs coming into the state are so poorly graded as to size as to require 

 sale as unclassified. 



"Strictly Fresh" Most Used Descriptive Term 



An analysis was made of terms used in advertising eggs in news- 

 papers in various cities of the state after July 1, 1935, when New 

 Hampshire's Fresh Egg Law went into effect. The following terms 

 other than those designating size were most frequently used: k 



Strictly fresh 121 



Brand names 54 



Native 51 



Fresh 48 



Strictly fresh native 39 



Native fresh 39 



Native brown 36 



(Brand name) Guaranteed 35 



Guaranteed 31 



(Brand name) Selected 27 



Western guaranteed 21 



Selected guaranteed 21 



(Brand name) Every one guaranteed . . 20 



Fresh western 19 



(Brand name) Selected and guaranteed 19 



Selected 17 



Fresh western unclassified 16 



Local fresh 12 



From our own f ann — fresh daily 10 



Cooking 9 



Near-by 9 



(Brand name) All new arrivals 7 



Cold storage unclassified 7 



Fancy selected 6 



Native farm — 3 days old 6 



(Brand name) Carefully selected 6 



(Brand name) Table 6 



Native brown — Not over 3 days old . . 5 



Fresh country 5 



