MARKETING EGGS 



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warehouse at the end of four months was 85 per cent., seven 

 months 96 per cent., and ten months 99.9 per cent. Of eggs 

 by the end of four months 22 per cent., seven months 75 per 

 cent., and ten months 99.9 per cent. 



Factors Affecting the Cost of Marketing. — Eggs may be 

 broken and also shrink during the process of marketing. Live 

 and dressed fowls shrink in transit. Milk fed live poultry 

 shipped a distance of 500 miles may shrink 10 to 16 per cent. 



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200. — Egg storage room. Note the cases are held 

 allow of free circulation of air. 



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if not fed before being cooped. If fed whole corn at time of 

 cooping and rushed this shrinkage may be reduced to 4 or 5 

 per cent. Occasionally heavy shrinkages which cannot be 

 accounted for occur. Corn-fed poultry do not make such 

 heavy shrinkage Dressed fowls make shrinkage, and if not 

 properly cooled and packed as well as refrigerated may spoil. 

 Eggs may be. purchased by the retailer from the commis- 

 sjpnman and paid for by the "case count;" that is, for, all 



