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paying for it in the form of a reduction in price. Eggs for which 

 the producer is paid twenty-five cents a dozen usually retail to 

 the consumer for thirty-five and thirty-eight cents, or higher. 

 Thus, the middlemen's profits and handlers' charges amount to 

 over ten cents a dozen. These charges are legitimate, because 



(Courtesy Million Egg Farm) 

 Fig. 274. — Grading and packing eggs. 



these distributing agents have rendered service for the poultry- 

 man. They have received, shipped, stored, graded, sold, de- 

 livered and collected for his goods. On each operation the mid- 

 dleman has been put to an expense, which is chargeable, and 

 on each operation the middleman wants a profit above his ex- 



