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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



F^ggs received in Boston. 



The grade of eggs taken for the standard of price is " fresh 

 western," and we give the highest and lowest price of each year. 

 A study of the tables gives some interesting figures. The lowest 

 average price for the whole year is 15J cents, in 1897 ; and the 

 highest average price is '22^ cents, reached in 1890 and again in 

 1902. There was one week in January, and again the second 

 week in February, 1893, when fresh western eggs reached the un- 

 usual price of 36 cents a dozen, and yet the average for that entire 

 year was but 20| cents. In 1902 the highest price reached was 

 36 cents, the lowest 15J cents, and the average for the fifty-two 

 weeks was 22.^ cents. Marketmen tell us that not only is the 

 quantity of eggs received in Boston increasing rapidly, but that 

 the price is steadily advancing also ; the figures given in the 

 Chamber of Commerce reports, however, hardly bear out the latter 

 statement. Eggs have been unusually high in Boston all of this 

 year, which promises to be a record breaker ; but the highest price 

 of last year was no higher than that of 1893, the lowest price of 

 last year only a half cent above the lowest figure of both 1891 and 



