Oct., 1937] Eggs Under the Hammer 5 



Table 2. — Per cent of eggs sold in various ways by 273 N. H. producers during the 



hatching season — January-May, 19S6 



Even in the remaining seven months (June — December) , about 19 

 per cent of all eggs were sold as hatching eggs or chicks. Large pro- 

 ducers with flocks of over 2000 birds sold but 61.1 per cent of their eggs 

 as market eggs. 



Table 3 — Per cent of eggs sold in various ways by 252 New Hampshire producers 



in the year ending October 1, 1936 



About two-thirds of all hatching eggs reported were sold in New Eng- 

 land, although actually a large quantity of eggs and chicks eventually 

 reach the Middle Atlantic States, because of large sales by producers 

 and hatcherymen who handle eggs from other flocks. 



Organization and Operation of the New Hampshire Egg Auction 



Earl}^ in 1934 a committee was selected by the New Hampshire 

 Poultry" Growers' Association to look into the feasibility of setting up 

 an egg auction in New Hampshire. 



This committee made arrangements for opening an auction on June 

 11, 1934, at Derry, to be operated by the Farmers' Trading Post, a 

 local community roadside market organization. General policies were 

 in the hands of the original committee, but responsibility for details of 

 operation was left with the Trading Post and was largely in the hands 

 of three of its directors who were themselves poultrymen and members 

 of the New Hampshire Poultry Growers' Association. An experienced 

 manager was selected at the very beginning. The organization was 

 operated under this arrangement until earlj^ in 1937 when the auction 

 was taken over by the New Hampshire Poultry Growers' Association 

 for the poultrymen of the State pending reorganization to best fit the 

 needs of its producer patrons. Although not strictly a cooperative it 



