138 THE HISTORY OF 



six hundred seventy-four thousand four hundred and 

 twenty-three dollars : the average sales of one dealer alone 

 amounting to twelve hundred dollars per week for' the 

 whole year. The amount of sales for the whole city of 

 Boston, for the same year, was over one million of dollara. 

 The amount of sales of eggs in and around the Quincy 

 Market for 1848 was one million one hundred and twenty- 

 nine thousand seven hundred and thirty-five dozen, which, 

 at eighteen cents per dozen, makes the amount paid for eggs 

 to he two hundred three thousand three hundred and fifty- 

 two dollars and thirty cents ; while the amount of sales of 

 eggs for the whole city of Boston, for the same yea^ was a 

 fraction short of one million of dollars ; the daily consump- 

 tion of eggs at one of its hotels being, seventy-five dozen 

 daiily, and on Saturday one hundred and fifty dozen. 



At this time, a single dealer in the egg-trade, at Phila^ 

 delphia, sent to the New York market, daily, one hundred 

 barrels of eggs ; while the value of eggs shipped from Dub- 

 lin to Liverpool and London was more than five millions 

 of dollars for the year 1848. 



In addition to these facts, frequent allusions were made to 

 the enormous quantities required for other markets, in the 

 interior, to supply which the number of laying hens must be 

 kept good, and mcreased, as the demand for the eggs was 

 constantly augmenting, and the business, "if skilfully and 



