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to be the highest. ‘With some products it is practically impossible 
to make any profit out of season. 
Ultimate Price Regulation. —The New York markets for eggs 
and dressed poultry, owing to the vast quantities received, fix, 
in greater or less degree, the price of these products in a large 
part of the country. The general public, and rural communities 
especially, know very little about the regulation of these prices. 
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Fig. 194.—Curves showing the relation of temperature to the selling price of eggs. 
The heavy black line represents temperature, and the light lines variation in wholesale 
prices for market eggs forfour years, from 1885 to 1910. 
Small egg shippers all over the country speak of the “ market 
price ” without knowing how or where it originates. 
The Mercantile Exchange of New York City has a membership 
of several hundred men, all of whom are interested in the buying 
and selling of poultry and dairy products (Fig. 195). Membership 
is quite exclusive, and only men of sound financial standing and 
good business reputation are invited to join. Here at ten o’clock 
every business day the members gather to buy and sell these pro- 
ducts in quantity. From the business here transacted, the dealers 
