time, when it begins to come in in quantity?" After some hesi- 

 tation, the point was admitted. "Yes; it would sell at some 

 price. You can sell anything in New York, if you will sell it 

 cheap enough; but, "he concluded, triumphantly, "that isn't 'New 

 York Market'." 



At another place, while agreeing that New York did not 

 want duck eggs, the representative of the firm (which is selling 

 them for shippers) told me that if they laid well early (which 

 would add to the average price) they would, even now, equal the 

 average of the Leghorn eggs in price. He thought that, in time, 

 as the market found that it must deal with the Runner egg, the 

 average price might rise. 



At another very large place, while there was still this in- 

 explicable undertone of opposition, or, at least, of doubt, the 

 representative told me that the yearly average price of duck eggs 

 would figure out 35c a dozen, as things are now. He said that 

 they would sell to 45c in the spring. Speaking to my question 

 as to this egg making its own market, eventually, he said that 

 zvhile it might go slow at first, it zvould surely sell. He stated 

 that the Irish and the Germans were good buyers of duck eggs. 



On the day I was in the market, "Leghorn" eggs were quoted 

 up to 38c as the extreme fancy price. Duck eggs were then 

 selling at 25c to 30c. In order to understand the varying re- 

 ports regarding the Indian Runner eggs as compared with hens' 

 eggs, we need to know two things which are hard to realize : one 

 is that, before Easter, duck eggs sell far above hens' eggs, some- 

 times being at a premium of more than 50 per cent; the otber 

 is that, later, they bring about the same as hens' eggs ; while in 

 midsummer they may sometimes fall below. 



This last is anomalous, and I think will be reversed when 

 the Indian Runner egg has had time to prove itself. It does 

 not seem reasonable that any market demanding a large, fancy 

 white egg, should long hold aloof from such an egg when offered. 



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