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price of meat, as well as a preference for eggs as food; hence 

 the price of eggs has risen. In 1899 the farm price was 

 11.15 cents per dozen, as an average for the United States; 

 in 1909 the average was 19.7 cents, weighted according to 

 monthly production."^ 



As indicative of the advance in prices of poultry as well 

 as eggs during the last seventeen years, the weighted average 

 New York prices (estimated), furnished by the "Urner- 

 Barry Company," New York City, are given in Table IV. 

 These prices represent those paid wholesale receivers by 

 jobbers for western products, all grades considered except 

 extras in the case of eggs. 



Table IV. — Weighted New Yobk Average Phices (Estimated) 



ON Eggs, Live and Dressed Pooltrt for the Years 



1896 TO 1915 iNCLTJefvE. 



Year. 



1896 . . 



1897 



1898 



1899 



1900 



1901 



1902 



1903 



1904 



1905 



1906 



1907 



1908 



1909 



1910 



1911 



1912 



1913 



1914 



1915 



During these same years the Chicago prices of eggs into 

 and out of storage are shown in Table V.^ 



' Pennington and Pierce, Year-book of United States Department of 

 Agriculture, 1910. 

 ' Courtesy of Paul Mandeville, and Merrill and Eldredge, Chicago. 



