laid quality has become very scarce and it is hard to get enough 

 fancy whites to supply even the limited demand. Values are 

 quite irregular. Very fancy, large, new laid, hennery whites 

 could be peddled out up to 43c and 45c, but there are very few 

 such ; and jobbers would hardly pay more than 41c and 42c for 

 the best." This was the report of the New York Produce Re- 

 view, under date of Oct. 18, 1911. At the same time, in another 

 column, fine lots of "strictly fine, full, strong-bodied fresh (west- 

 ern) were rated at 38c for the best." "There are some lots of 

 Western graded and candled eggs which even though showing 

 very little dead loss, contain too few full fresh to exceed 23c 

 and 23c. The better grades of regular packed western have had 

 a moderate demand at 34c and 35c, these passing fairly high in 

 the grade of firsts. Occasionally, a lot of ungraded stock shows 

 enough new laid quality to reach 36c, but there are not many 

 as good as that." One other sentence: "There is fair call for 

 useful summer eggs at 17c and 18c." 



Here, we have what seems to me a situation impossible to 

 hold : a market keen for large, fancy white eggs, reaching in 

 early autumn as high as 45c at the extreme ; a perfectly good, 

 sweet large fancy white tgg in sight for this market so that it 

 may have a good supply, and the market looking askance at this 

 offered egg because, forsooth, of a "prejudice." "Fresh dirties" 

 and "checks," western ungraded and "useful summer" sorts — all 

 these seem attractive to the buyer, but not the strictly white, 

 translucent, extra large fancy which is knocking at the market 

 door! Does it seem to you that such a condition will hold 

 long? Do you not begin to wonder what is the underlying rea- 

 son for the unhelpful attitude of the Commission Houses toward 

 the Indian Runner egg? 



I put it up to the representative of one of the largest hous- 

 es : "Is it not reasonable to suppose that a perfectly good food 

 product like the Indian Runner egg will make its own market, in 



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