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1. Continued sale of wholesale eggs with proper marking of weights 

 on the auction and adoption of such practice on eggs sold on 

 other markets. 



2. Marking of weights on retail packages of eggs. 



3. Consumer publicity explaining or calling attention to the real 

 values of some of the heavier weight eggs. 



4. Sale of eggs by the pound. 



Candling and Egg Quality 



Egg Rooms — The increased use of furnaces in farm homes and the 

 placing of incubators in cellars have resulted in many cellars being too 

 warm to properly hold eggs. Unless a cellar is available which will 

 hold temperatures below 60° F., it seems advisable to provide a spe- 

 cial egg room which will hold low temperatures. 



Candling — The candling of eggs by the auction and the furnishing 

 of candling records to producers have made less need for candling 

 equipment than before. Nevertheless, a candler is of value to check 

 on eggs from time to time, and the candling of eggs is desirable for 

 those selling in other ways to a high class trade. Persons who sell on 

 the auction and have replacement costs above average (3.8^ per case 

 in 1934-1935) may well consider methods of reducing losses and a 

 candler should be of use. 



Prices 



Reports — Auction quotations refer to actual sales of specific quanti- 

 ties, grades and weights of eggs and are of special value for that reason. 

 Reports covering "Bulk of sales" are more valuable than the extreme 

 range of prices although the latter is always of interest to producers. 



White eggs — White eggs average about 1.5fJ per dozen under browns 

 for the same grades. Because of the small quantities of white eggs 

 sold, special effort should be made to find an unprejudiced market for 

 them. Summer residents from white egg sections maj^ even prefer 

 white eggs and in such cases would pay as much or more for them 

 than for browns. 



"Very large" eggs — Very large eggs constitute a problem both from 

 a packing and a sale standpoint. No official grade has been estab- 

 lished for them. With more cases of eggs weighing 27 oz. or more per 

 dozen than in either the pullet or peewee grades it would seem that an 

 official classification of "very large" may be justified. Such a retail 

 grade might result in greater recognition and result in prices more 

 nearly in line with their worth. 



Tolerance on Sizes of Individual Eggs 



Additional time is required in the grading process to meet exacting 

 requirements on the size of individual eggs. While it is probably de- 

 sirable to maintain a small tolerance on the number of medium size 

 eggs allowed in the large size, it would simplify the grading process n 



